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Test batting nominees
Jan 15, 2018: The best Test batting performances of the year span venues from across the continents
The curious cases of Shafiq and Karunaratne
Oct 13, 2017: Both were prolific in the recently concluded Pakistan-Sri Lanka series, but their overall Test careers is a strange mix of excellence and mediocrity
ICC rankings
Rabada reaches career-best No. 3 ranking
Oct 11, 2017: The fast bowler has now moved above R Ashwin and Rangana Herath among Test bowlers, while Dimuth Karunaratne has entered the top 20 in the Test batting rankings for the first time
Pakistan v Sri Lanka 2017-18
Marathon-man Karunaratne buries his first-innings ghosts
Oct 11, 2017: The Sri Lanka opener's best knocks have often come in the second innings, when his team is playing catch-up, but the Pakistan series featured a welcome departure from that norm
Pakistan v Sri Lanka, 2nd Test, Dubai, 2nd day
Karunaratne's hunger for long innings
Oct 7, 2017: Dimuth Karunaratne has played some remarkably long innings recently, and is emerging as a batting leader for Sri Lanka post the Jayawardene-Sangakkara era
Pakistan v Sri Lanka, 2nd Test, Dubai, 2nd day
Sri Lanka in control after Karunaratne 196
Oct 7, 2017: Yasir Shah becomes first spinner to take five-fors in five successive Tests but Pakistan have a mountain to climb in the pink-ball Test
Pakistan v Sri Lanka, 2nd Test, Dubai, 1st day
Inside the heart of a Karunaratne classic
Oct 7, 2017: Being excluded from the ODI squad seemed not to bother the Sri Lanka opener, as he scored his seventh Test hundred to give his team control of the innings
Pakistan v Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Abu Dhabi
Karunaratne shines as Sri Lanka savour unremarkable day
Sep 28, 2017: Amid tumult, Dimuth Karunaratne has been Sri Lanka's lynchpin; he is the team's leading Test scorer this year, and fifth in the world
Sri Lanka v India, 2nd Test, SSC, 4th day
Karunaratne produces narrative-changing knock
Aug 6, 2017: Dimuth Karunaratne has gone from regularly being on the verge of getting dropped to becoming one of Sri Lanka's most consistent batsmen of 2017 - and shown the stomach for a fight while at it
Sri Lanka v India, 2nd Test, Colombo, 4th day
Jadeja's five-for wraps up India's first innings win in Sri Lanka
Aug 6, 2017: The fastest left-armer to 150 Test wickets helped his team to a series victory away from home in eight days of cricket
Sri Lanka v India, 2nd Test, Colombo, 3rd day
Mendis hundred and Karunaratne 92* defy India
Aug 5, 2017: After meekly folding for 183 all out in their first innings, Sri Lanka put forward a much better reply after they were made to follow-on
Sri Lanka v India, 2nd Test, Colombo, 2nd day
Karunaratne also calls for stronger SL first-class competition
Aug 4, 2017: Dimuth Karunaratne has become the latest player to advocate for a stronger first-class competition in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe, only Test, Colombo, 4th day
Karunaratne urges positivity over survival
Jul 17, 2017: Seeing out Graeme Cremer and staying positive will reverse a little pressure and bring a mammoth 388 target within reach, according to Dimuth Karunaratne
Sri Lanka v Bangladesh, 2nd Test, Colombo, 4th day
'Loss to Bangladesh could scar SL cricket'
Mar 18, 2017: Dimuth Karunaratne, Sri Lanka's second-innings centurion, credited Mustafizur Rahman for a potentially match-turning spell after lunch on the fourth day
Sri Lanka v Bangladesh, 2nd Test, Colombo, 4th day
Karunaratne battles but Bangladesh can dare to dream
Mar 18, 2017: Shakib Al Hasan and Mustafizur Rahman picked up three wickets apiece as Bangladesh took a grip on the Colombo Test. Sri Lanka were only 139 ahead with two wickets in hand
Sri Lanka A v England Lions, 2nd unofficial Test, Dambulla, 3rd day
Lions face final-day battle for survival after Rayner's marathon
Feb 25, 2017: England Lions face a long battle for survival on the final day in Dambulla as Sri Lanka A seek a victory that would tie the series, but all Ollie Rayner wanted was a long night's sleep
Sri Lanka A v England Lions, 2nd unofficial Test, Dambulla, 2nd day
England Lions made to toil by triple-century stand
Feb 25, 2017: England Lions were put to the sword by an unbroken stand of 303 on another sweltering day in Dambulla
England Lions in Sri Lanka 2016-17
De Silva to captain SL A in unofficial Tests against England Lions
Feb 13, 2017: The A squad for the two unofficial Tests also includes opener Dimuth Karunaratne and Sri Lanka's second spinner, Dilruwan Perera
Sri Lanka in South Africa 2016-17
Kumara, Lakmal a glimmer amid catalogue of pain
Jan 15, 2017: Sri Lanka were beaten by increasingly convincing margins through the series and ESPNcricinfo looks at whether anyone emerged with credit
South Africa v Sri Lanka, 3rd Test, Johannesburg, 3rd day
Parnell, Olivier seal innings win for SA
Jan 14, 2017: South Africa advanced determinedly towards a 3-0 whitewash of Sri Lanka by taking just 17 overs to dismiss the opposition on the third morning
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