He added: "There are no terrors in the wicket and there are still plenty of runs to be had, but it is starting to turn from good areas, not just from the rough, so we must make sure that we get a good total in the first innings."
The stand was a record for Sri Lanka against Australia for the first wicket, surpassing the 110 compiled by Roshan Mahanama and Chandika Haturusingha at the same venue in 1992/93.
Scoreboard
Australia first innings (overnight 314-6)
J.Langer c Dilshan b Vaas 19
M.Hayden c sub b Samaraweera 25
R.Ponting c Muralitharan b Vaas 92
D.Martyn c Sangakkara b Vaas 14
D.Lehmann c Jayasuriya b Muralitharan 153
S.Katich c and b Muralitharan 14
A.Gilchrist c Jayasuriya b Muralitharan 22
S.Warne lbw b Muralitharan 32
J.Gillespie c Tillakaratne b Muralitharan 0
M.Kasprowicz b Jayasuriya 4
B.Williams not out 0
Extras (b-13 lb-9 nb-4) 26
Total (all out, 115.1 overs) 401
Fall of wickets: 1-43 2-60 3-96 4-217 5-244 6-299 7-376 8-380 9-387
Bowling: Vaas 26-3-93-3 (1-nb), Zoysa 3.3-1-23-0, Samaraweera 14.3-1-37-1 (2-nb), Muralitharan 37.1-6-123-5,
Herath 23-4-76-0 (1-nb), Jayasuriya 11-1-27-1
Sri Lanka first innings
M.Atapattu not out 109
S.Jayasuriya c Gillespie b Lehmann 71
K.Sangakkara c Gilchrist b Lehmann 22
M.Jayawardene not out 29
Extras (b-4 lb-2 nb-2) 8
Total (for two wickets, 64 overs) 239
To bat: H.Tillakaratne, T.Samaraweera, T.Dilshan, C.Vaas, N.Zoysa, R.Herath, M.Muralitharan.
Fall of wickets: 1-134 2-175
Bowling: Gillespie 9-0-57-0, Kasprowicz 10-1-29-0 (1-nb), Williams 8-2-27-0 (1-nb), Warne 18-4-58-0,
Lehmann 11-1-33-2, Katich 8-0-29-0