Andrew Fidel Fernando

Senior writer, ESPNcricinfo

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Rohit: 'Pant is somebody who can change the game in 40 minutes'

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

14-Mar-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Dimuth Karunaratne, a mortal treading into a galaxy of the divine

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

14-Mar-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Taking in loss and joy in Amritsar

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

14-Mar-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Where was the planning, Sri Lanka?

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

13-Mar-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Shreyas Iyer: On this pitch, a fifty feels like a century

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

13-Mar-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Relentless India make mockery of pitch, conditions and Sri Lanka

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

12-Mar-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

'Best time for me to leave' - Suranga Lakmal looks back at Test career before final hurrah

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

11-Mar-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Karunaratne wants Sri Lanka to 'reverse a little pressure' and put plans 'in motion' during pink-ball Test

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'

11-Mar-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Jasprit Bumrah: 'We're still very new' to pink-ball cricket

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

11-Mar-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Almost invisible Suranga Lakmal not a man for the glory spells

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

10-Mar-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Rohit hails 'all-time great' Ashwin and 'top allrounder' Jadeja after innings win

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

06-Mar-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Dear India, enough is enough, this is no longer funny, please stop

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

06-Mar-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

The new and unrecognisable Ravindra Jadeja

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

05-Mar-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Rishabh Pant, making us have the time of our lives

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

04-Mar-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Sri Lanka desperately need Dimuth Karunaratne to lead the charge of their building

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

03-Mar-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Dimuth Karunaratne quietly confident of Sri Lanka doing to India what they did in South Africa

"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"

03-Mar-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Four lesser-known Sri Lanka players to watch out for against India

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

03-Mar-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Don't look up: the James Faulkner story

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

02-Mar-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Sri Lanka have a top three and the Dinesh Chandimal experiment is over, right?

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

27-Feb-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Shreyas Iyer's path to coveted No. 3 spot is a road well travelled

After eight innings at No. 3, Shreyas has hit 340 runs at a strike rate of 147

27-Feb-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

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