The Sri Lanka batter has had a tremendous start to his first IPL season, and he's hoping to take lessons from it back home

"His keeping was the best I've seen", says India's Test captain

The opener's Chinnaswamy classic encapsulated his journey to world-class stature at a time when his team-mates have stagnated

Our Sri Lanka correspondent gets time off from cricket to explore the history-laden Punjab city

This was always going to be a hugely challenging tour, but it didn't have to be so shambolic

"You can't just play very negatively on that wicket and just keep defending the ball," he says after hitting 92 off 98

If the batters don't get you, the bowlers will, except that most of the time, the batters and the bowlers will get you

Fast bowler shares his reasons, his best moments in Test cricket and what we can expect from him in the future

Sri Lanka captain to go with two spinners for the Test as he hopes the team can give the retiring Suranga Lakmal a 'great farewell'

"We are not used to catching the pink ball, bowling with the pink ball, and as batters, playing against the pink ball"

He's no Shoaib Akhtar but one had to watch him close to notice how good he was, and his very few magic balls

India captain wants to use Jadeja "a lot more with the bat", citing example of his promotion in the T20I series

ESPNcricinfo's Sri Lanka correspondent tries to make sense of the latest mismatch between these two teams

He used to play fun little innings. Now he's capable of defining a whole match, with bat or ball

How did a system as rigorous and mechanical as India's generate such a free spirit?

The reason why we expect Sri Lanka will make something of the Tests against India is because in his own unobtrusive way, Karunaratne has made it so

"We were underdogs then too, and we had nothing to lose, so we produced our best... The pressure is on India to not let a match slip"

Nissanka, Embuldeniya are among those who can be a threat in the two-Test series

Our correspondent finds that the hottest face-offs in cricket now are currently happening off the field

Four things Sri Lanka might have learned from their T20 February, with an eye to the World Cup