T20 Cricket 2019 Live | Australia thrash Sri Lanka by nine wickets with 42 balls remaining at the Gabba

The start of the Australian summer of cricket has delivered a brilliant Aussie first and what is already one of the bizarre moments of the summer.

Sprinklers were on at the Gabba.

Australia has claimed its first series win over Sri Lanka, ending a horror record against the side in a bizarre match at the Gabba.

After a 134-run win on Sunday, Australia claimed the historic home series victory against Sri Lanka, dating back to the one-off match on October 31, 2010.

The match finished with an anticlimax as a wide from Wanindu Hasaranga handed the Aussies a nine-wicket win with 42 balls remaining.

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Australia put Sri Lanka to the sword with a brilliant bowling performance, taking the final six wickets for 52.

Sri Lanka become the most bowled out team in T20 history.

Sri Lanka overtakes Bangladesh to become the team that got all out most number of times in T20Is. #AUSvSL pic.twitter.com/kz8uLn3dtA

— CricTracker (@Cricketracker) October 30, 2019

Spinners Ashton Agar and Adam Zampa tore the heart out of the Sri Lankan middle order and two run outs definitely didn't help their cause.

Two wickets each for Billy Stanlake, Pat Cummins and the spin twins gave Australia the ascendency.

And it was wrapped up with Cummins running out Lakshan Sandakan, having to hold the ball against the stump as he pulled it out of the ground.

Pat Cummins claims the run out.

In a sign of how poor Sri Lanka was came late in the match when Lakshan Sandakan tried to replicate Cummins but had the ball in the wrong hand.

It leaves Australia needing 118 to wrap up the three-match series.

But there were bizarre scenes early in the game as the sprinklers came on in the second over of the match.

Mark Howard was baffled as the sprinklers came on: "you've got one job".

Shane Warne added: "Surely not - you don't need a wet patch on the ground do you?"

Isa Guha reminded the fans of the BBL match where the lights went out with the "rough" sprinkler coming on.

"How does that happen?" Warne asked.

Sprinklers on

It's the latest bizarre scene at the Gabba after the Heat and Thunder match was abandoned three overs into the second innings last year.

Some houses were also without power in the surrounding suburbs of Brisbane with Energex blaming the blackout on an underground cable fault between gates one and two outside the Gabba.

But the crowd was the big talking point to start with empty seats vastly outnumbering fans.

Midweek games really are a no-no outside school holidays #AUSvSL

— Daniel Brettig (@danbrettig) October 30, 2019

Where is everyone? 👀 #AUSvSL

— Corbin Middlemas (@CorbinMiddlemas) October 30, 2019

 

Shocking crowd at the Gabba for Australia-Sri Lanka T20 tonight - lucky to be 10,000. Bizarre scheduling and little promotion. #AUSvSL

— Travis Meyn (@travismeyn) October 30, 2019

Australia could have been in for a tricky start as Aaron Finch was dismissed in the first over with a tickle down the leg side seeing him dismissed for a golden duck.