While Haddin acknowledged the New South Welshman desperately needed a score after starting his Test career with three single-figure contributions, he called for patience as Australia ushers in a new era.

Maddinson has been retained in Australia’s squad for the second Commonwealth Bank Test against Pakistan, starting on Boxing Day, but allrounder Hilton Cartwright has also been drafted in as a 13th member, and could replace Maddinson in the Test XI.

Captain Steve Smith flagged on Monday Australia might look to ease the load on pacemen Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Jackson Bird with an allrounder. The fast-bowling trio sent down 113 overs between them in the second innings of the home team’s 39-run triumph in Brisbane.

Cartwright, who averages 44.50 with the bat and 41.93 with the ball from in 16 first-class matches, was added to the squad yesterday.

Maddinson made a duck on debut against South Africa in Adelaide last month – undone by a rampant Kagiso Rabada with the pink ball under lights – before Australia powered to a seven-wicket victory.

The 24-year-old, who has an average of 36.64 at first-class level, followed up with scores one and four at the Gabba.

Steve Smith reacts moments after the drama

Maddinson was unfortunate in the second innings, arriving at the crease with Australia in search of quick runs before a declaration.

The aggressive left-hander has logged 235 runs at 39.16, including one century, from three Sheffield Shield matches this summer.

Quick Single: Cartwright added for Boxing Day

“He’s been a bit unlucky, to be honest,” Haddin said on Sky Sports Radio.

“He’s got a couple of good balls, he’s (played his first two games) against two pink balls which is a bit different, so I’m glad they’ve given him Melbourne to give him the opportunity to get some runs and I hope they give him the rest of the series.

“I know (interim chairman of selectors) Trevor Hohns said when he picked this squad that you’re going to have to be patient, and Nic Maddinson is one of those players I think.

“But you can’t hide behind the fact he needs a big score.”

Maddinson’s rocky road in Test career continues

Maddinson was one of five changes in a revamped line-up for the Adelaide Test against South Africa, with Matthew Renshaw and Peter Handscomb also making their debuts.

Renshaw scored 71 in the first innings in Brisbane, while Handscomb hammered his maiden Test century to back up the 54 he made in Adelaide.

“The bowlers got through a high workload in Brisbane and although everyone has pulled up okay, on reflection we wanted to give ourselves the option of including an allrounder in Melbourne to ease that workload somewhat,” Hohns said.

Cartwright reflects on training with Aussie squad

“To do that we wanted a batting allrounder, someone to bowl seam-up and capable of batting in the top six as well, and after considering several names we came to the conclusion that Hilton fits that bill.

“We have seen plenty of him, he has performed well this season and we believe that if called upon he will do an excellent job.”

Australia’s Boxing Day Test squad: David Warner, Matt Renshaw, Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith (c), Peter Handscomb, Nic Maddinson, Matthew Wade, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon, Jackson Bird, Chadd Sayers, Hilton Cartwright

In an extraordinary second day’s play of the second Test at Galle where 21 wickets fell for 314 runs, Australia chasing an imposing target of 413 for victory were struggling at 25 for three wickets still requiring a further 388 runs with seven wickets and three days of the Test remaining.

The most wickets to fall in a day’s play in a Test in Sri Lanka is 22 against England at the SSC in 2001.

The way the Test has panned out so far Australia has a tough task ahead of them to try and save the match and with it the series. They already trail 0-1 after losing the first Test to Sri Lanka at Pallekele by 106 runs and another loss would mean they not only lose the series but their no. 1 Test ranking as well.

The Galle pitch was something that was hard to explain. It was not that it was unplayable but it tested the capabilities of the batsmen against both pace and spin. Otherwise how can one justify spinners Rangana Herath, Dilruwan Perera and Lakshan Sandakan taking 12 wickets and Australian pace bowler Mitchell Starc, a match bag of 11 for 94 which is the second best figures by a visiting fast bowler in Sri Lanka after Pakistani Mohammad Asif’s 11/71 at Asgiriya Kandy in 2006. It was also the first time in his 27-Test career he had returned match figures of ten or more wickets.

Australia’s second innings batting followed almost the same pattern as their first with Herath dismissing Joe Burns in the first over for two and Dilruwan Perera following up with the wickets of nightwatchman Nathan Lyon and Usman Khawaja for zeros.

David Warner was unbeaten on 22 with Steve Smith on one not out.

Australia’s captain and vice-captain have a gargantuan task ahead of them to try and win the match and keep the series alive.

Herath became only the second Sri Lankan bowler to perform the hat-trick in Test cricket when he along with fellow spinner Dilruwan Perera bowled Australia out for 106 – their lowest total against Sri Lanka.

The first hour’s play was crucial to both sides as Australia resumed at 54-2 in reply to Sri Lanka’s first innings of 281 on a difficult pitch for batsmen.

Australia lost the plot when within that crucial hour they lost six wickets for 35 runs off 16.3 overs.

Within a matter of 95 minutes they were all back in the pavilion as Herath and Perera played havoc with their batting. It was not so much the spin that the Aussies were troubled by, but the ball skidding off the surface which they were not accustomed to. It was something that the Australians may not have bargained for during their serious preparations ahead of the series.

As skipper Steve Smith admitted during the pre-Test conference the conditions in Sri Lanka (or rather subcontinent) were alien to his team brought up on pace oriented pitches.

From the manner in which Smith’s men tried to play the two spinners they gave the impression that they had not yet come to terms of how to play spin in the subcontinent. Each batsman may have worked out his own plan of countering the spin but none had mastered it as the events of yesterday unfolded.

The Australian wickets tumbled like nine pins as Perera began the slide by getting Usman Khawaja’s wicket for 11 in the second over of the day and Herath sent back Smith for five with the score stagnant on 59.

Mitch Marsh and Adam Voges carried to score to 80 at which total Herath performed his hat-trick in his seventh over – by first having Voges caught by Karunaratne at extra cover for eight and following it up with the wickets of Peter Nevill and Mitchell Starc – both lbw. Herath was made to wait for a while before celebrating the unique feat when the umpire ruled Starc not out and Sri Lanka subsequently challenged the decision which eventually was given in their favour.

The only other Sri Lankan bowler to perform the hat-trick was fast bowler Nuwan Zoysa against Zimbabwe at Harare in 1999 when he dismissed Trevor Gripper, Murray Goodwin and Neil Johnson with his first three deliveries in the Test, a rare feat yet to be equalled.

David Warner’s 42 remained as Australia’s top score as they put up an abject batting performance against spin on a wicket that was not doing a lot. With a handy first innings lead of 175, Sri Lanka stretched it to beyond 400 when they were dismissed for 237 in their second innings. When Mathews was dismissed for 47 Sri Lanka were 121-6 but Dilruwan Perera who had failed upto yesterday to fulfill his potential as a late order batsman except on one previous occasion came good to score a valuable 64 off 89 balls and raise the total by 112 runs in partnerships with Dhananjaya de Silva (34) and Herath (26).

Sri Lanka were again let down by their opening pair who were both back in the pavilion by the third over. Kaushal Silva fell for two to Josh Hazlewood and Karunaratne (7) was out to Starc for the fourth time in as many innings in the series.

Starc also removed first Test hero Kusal Mendis cheaply for seven and Dinesh Chandimal for 13

Warner’s 55 not out saw Australia home with almost 25 overs to spare after the West Indies earlier collapsed from 50 for one to 116 all out from 32.3 overs.

Australia then wasted little time in getting to the modest target, Warner anchoring the effort to ensure a victory that was never in doubt despite the loss of three wickets for seven runs with the end in sight.

Spinners Sunil Narine, with two wickets in one over, and Sulieman Benn caused the discomfort but it was not enough to save the hosts.

The emphatic victory earned Australia a bonus point to move ahead of the West Indies in the three-team standings before Tuesday’s final game at Providence against South Africa.

“Our batting is a real concern,” said West Indies coach Phil Simmons.

“The bowlers and fielding side are doing a great job but we need to get it together with the bat for the next two matches in St Kitts.”

Boosted by a four-wicket win in the tournament-opener against the South Africans at the same venue two days earlier, the West Indies plummeted back down to earth at the feet of the World Cup-holders, whose frontline spinners Nathan Lyon and Adam Zampa did the bulk of the damage with three wickets apiece after the usual effective opening burst from Mitchell Starc. “I really enjoyed it out there on that pitch,” Zampa enthused after his performance.

“South Africa will be a big challenge though on Tuesday with so many quality batsmen.”

Playing his first international match for more than six months after being sidelined by injury, the left-arm fast bowler breached the defences of openers Andre Fletcher and Johnson Charles to finish with figures of two for 37 from nine overs.

He showed signs of rustiness in delivering five wides and a no-ball, however his lethal pace proved more than a handful for the West Indies top order.

Starc’s tally of ODI wickets is now at 92 in his 47th match and should he take eight more before the end of this competition he will eclipse Pakistan’s Saqlain Mustaq for the record as the fastest to 100 wickets in terms of matches played in this format of the international game.

Charles topscored with a chancy 22 while all-rounder Carlos Brathwaite was last out for 21, Aaron Finch taking the catch at long-on to give Zampa his third wicket.

Notwithstanding the turgid surface, the home batsmen contributed to their swift demise with a succession of poor shots, exemplified by Darren Bravo’s loose cover-drive at seamer Mitchell Marsh which offered a straightforward catch to Zampa at cover.

Lyon, the experienced off-spinner, had an almost instant impact in disposing of Marlon Samuels and Kieron Pollard off successive deliveries.

Only four members – Usman Khawaja, Nathan Lyon, Shaun Marsh and Peter Siddle – from the 14-member squad that played in Australia’s victorious Test series campaign against New Zealand earlier this year, have experienced Test cricket in the island nation. James Pattinson was in the squad that toured Sri Lanka in 2011 but he didn’t get a game.

“I was over there when Shaun Marsh made his debut hundred (in September 2011),” Warner told cricket.com.au on Wednesday (May 4). “I’ve seen first-hand how the wickets are there. I know Pallekele is a nice batting wicket with a bit of late turn in the innings. Galle is traditionally a slow turner and in Colombo it’s a very nice batting track. For us, as a batting group, it’s about batting long periods and building partnerships and putting on good totals to make sure that our bowlers are in play come the second innings, whether it’s through reverse (swing) or spin.” Two of Australia’s recent tours to the sub-continent ended in disaster as they lost 4-0 to India in 2013 and then 2-0 to Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates in 2014. Despite having a career strike rate of 76.92 in the format, Warner saw it come down to 50 in India three years ago. It was slightly better in the UAE, where he was scoring at a rate just under 60.

Warner reasoned that the batsmen can tend to get bogged down in sub-continental conditions and that attacking the spinners could end up working in the batting side’s favour. “Sometimes we can get caught being too defensive and forget about attacking a little bit,” he said. “Sometimes that can work in your favour if you attack a little bit more the bowler might have to take out a short leg or an extra slip and put it somewhere else. “We’ve got to be prepared to bat time and battle the demons of whether the ball can actually turn as much as you think. For us it’s our bat in front our pads and actually using our feet a bit more and looking to score. We’re going to have to come up with a game plan to suit those conditions and you’ve got to stick to your game plan.” Whether his teammates follow suit or not, Warner is sure about taking the aggressive route in Sri Lanka. “At the end of the day, for me, my best way of approaching the game is to look to score runs. “If I’m looking to score then I’m in the right frame of mind. That’s always going to be my positive energy and intent and that’s always to look to score first and defend second.”