change room, and Ill do that until the day I die. SOS and Mo have definitely got my support, but so do Burnsy and Uz. Its a tough call, but thats why the selectors get paid the big dollars.Dropping t

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Tampa Bay right-hander Chase Whitley could maybe follow the mold of Texas left-hander Martin Perez.Perez (10-11) is proof that you can make it all the way back from Tommy John surgery, which is what Whitley (0-0) is trying to do. The two face off in the regular-season finale Sunday at Globe Life Park.Whitley makes his first big-league start since May 14, 2015, when he was a member of the New York Yankees. He left that start because of an elbow injury which led to surgery. He was limited to nine minor league starts this year as he rehabbed from the injury, but earned the right to start Sunday by allowing two runs in 10 1/3 innings with the Rays.He probably had a pretty good idea that it was going to happen, Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash said. We felt it was important to get Chase somewhere in there. Hes worked so hard for us all year. Were really excited about the way hes come back, how hes thrown the ball this year and then the way his off-speed pitches have played up. We view him as being a really big asset for our team next year.While Whitley is excited about 2017 too, hes also happy to have a chance to start again at this level.Im very thankful that the Lord blessed me to able to come back, Whitley said. Anytime youre getting to start in the major leagues is truly a blessing. Thats something I dont think Ill take for granted.Perez (10-11, 4.37 ERA) had his Tommy John rehab year in 2015, and is making his final start before the postseason. Hell do so having established career highs in starts at 32. He can set a career high with wins if he beats the Rays Sunday, and if he pitches at least 4 1/3 innings, hell surpass the 200-inning mark in a season for the first time in his career.I want to finish strong and try to throw up a couple of more zeros, thats all, Perez said. I feel good. 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The clear implication was that the surface would once again do plenty for spin, and that it would struggle to last the distance. Another spoiler for the pacemen.But events on day one of the third Test served to underline Mathews point rather better than it did that of the touring team. Yes the SSC pitch was extremely dry, and yes it took spin from the very first ball delivered by Nathan Lyon. Yet the conditions were not exactly treacherous, offering little by way of variable bounce, and catered to batsmen prepared to play with application, skill and occasional moments of flair. In Dhananjaya de Silva and Dinesh Chandimal, Sri Lanka had those batsmen.By way of quantifying how well these two played, Australia had arguably their best bowling day of the series. Runs were scored at a far less rapid rate, fields were clever but not over-attacking, and the pre-lunch spell when Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon combined artfully was as threatening as two Australian bowlers have looked together since Josh Hazlewood and Steve OKeefe on day one at Pallekele. Lyon found a disconcerting pace with useful turn early on, though for the balance of the day his line was perhaps fractionally too straight, allowing plenty of balls to be worked around the corner.Personally Ive learned a lot in this series and Im adapting, Lyon said. You can still see my stock off break creating chances but they just werent carrying to bat pad. The best way Id describe it is Im adapting to learning how to bowl on the subcontinent.Jon Holland too delivered a performance much improved on his nervous showing in Galle, dropping the ball onto the right length and varying his degree of turn nicely. On the evidence he offered here, Holland deserves a more consistent commission for Victoria over the home summer, and serious consideration for India next year. If a wicket or two was missing from his analysis, it was not through a lack of chances created. Peter Nevill could not accept an edge from Dhananjayas groping blade in mid-afternoon, not long after a skier fell tantalisingly short of mid-on running back with the flight. A facile appeal for a return catch via the boot of silly point was laughed off.What will frustrate the Australians is the fact that Sri Lanka have been by far the more reesilient of the two batting orders.dddddddddddd. A morning scoreline of 26 for 5 followed earlier starts of 67 for 5, 86 for 4, 9 for 2 and 98 for 5. Australias bowlers have not, all told, done a bad job, but their efforts to snuff out the Sri Lankan batting have been met by stiffening resistance with every innings since the first. Of course it was Kusal Mendis who showed the way with a series-defining hundred in Pallekele, but he has been followed by Mathews, Dhananjaya and Dilruwan Perera. It is a philosophy of Darren Lehmann that a batting line-up need only make enough runs to allow the bowlers room to take 20 wickets. Sri Lankas middle-order batsmen have followed it grandly.I daresay if you look at the whole series thats a big key in Sri Lanka being 2-0 up in the series, Lyon said. The ability for their batsmen to bat in partnerships and for a long period of time. Weve all spoken about it and our batters have got their own plans to come out in this Test match and hopefully put them into play and bat for long periods. Thats Test match cricket.Intriguingly, Australias selection for the Colombo Test reflected mounting discontent with the touring top order, even though Sri Lankas first three batsmen have been, if anything, even less productive. Joe Burns and Usman Khawaja paid a heavy price for their failures in Tests one and two, replaced by a pair of older cricketers in Moises Henriques and Shaun Marsh. These two were ostensibly the spare batsmen on tour, though Henriques is more an allrounder with precious few recent Sheffield Shield runs behind him. The methods he and Marsh offer will fascinate, given the teams commitment to a more aggressive game has now been faced with a counterpoint from Dhananjaya and Chandimal.Lyon offered a somewhat testy response when asked about the changes. Thats a selectors question, he said. Ive got no say in it, all Ive got to do is support each and every one of those guys in the change room, and Ill do that until the day I die. SOS and Mo have definitely got my support, but so do Burnsy and Uz. Its a tough call, but thats why the selectors get paid the big dollars.Dropping two seemingly settled members of the Australian top six just two Test matches into a new season was a momentous decision given the need for all antipodean batsmen to learn as much as possible in these conditions. Both Burns and Khawaja may now doubt their chances of going to India in the new year, no matter how many runs they make in Australia during the summer.But the move away from the current top six had as much to do with Sri Lankas greater resilience as with Australian troubles with spinning surfaces. Make no mistake, this series has been won by the home team, not by their pitches. ' ' '