Down Galle way lies a village where one of the world's leading fast bowlers delivered slingers with a softball on the beach and swam in the local lake

The chief curator at the Galle International Stadium, Jayananda Warnaweera, has ruled out producing a turning pitch for the first Test as a farewell gift to Muttiah Muralitharan

He may have lacked the accuracy shown in the 2008 series, but Ajantha Mendis has made a strong case for an early recall to the Test side

Yuvraj Singh made optimum use of the tour game to ensure his place at No. 6 in the Test line-up, scoring an entertaining and assured century, but could not save the Indians the embarrassment of not making the follow-on mark

The match is not being televised, but Harbhajan Singh will know how desperately he is needed when he is told of how ineffective the bowling was

A strong Board President's XI gave the Indians a welcome as harsh as Colombo's humidity

Try as he might to sound philosophical about it, Sreesanth couldn't hide his disappointment after being forced to miss the Test series because of an injury

Kumar Sangakkara, the Sri Lanka captain, has asked the ICC to step in and make the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) mandatory for all Test series

The opening game of India's tour has now become almost a Test trial for both sides

Jaidev Unadkat and Umesh Yadav, mainly as net bowlers, to Colombo came good in an undesired way as two frontline bowlers missed India's first net session of the tour

Though there has been an overkill of India-Sri Lanka contests, the Test matches, unlike the limited-over formats, have something worth preserving

The Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) will not be used during the upcoming Test series between Sri Lanka and India

Yuvraj Singh has been recalled to the Indian squad for the three-Test series in Sri Lanka starting next month, after being dropped for the recently concluded Asia Cup

India's under-fire seam attack came good when it mattered, setting up MS Dhoni's side's fourth win in seven tournament finals

Three wickets for 19 runs stalled India's start, and then Farveez Maharoof's hat-trick destroyed the middle order's rebuild and practically finished the dress rehearsal for the final in Sri Lanka's favour

Bangladesh's decision not to go for the win against Pakistan exposed the biggest flaw in the one-day format and goes against the spirit of the competitive sport

Bangladesh may have moved from the cool climes of England to hot and humid Sri Lanka, but they don't seem to have left at customs the habit of wasting scintillating starts by the openers

Sri Lanka survived Shahid Afridi's finest innings and Shoaib Akhtar on comeback through some desperate fielding and lovely bowling from Lasith Malinga

Suresh Raina and M Vijay made light work of Zimbabwe's second-highest total in Twenty20 internationals to give India a clean sweep of the series

India registered their first win of the tour against Zimbabwe after their spinners choked the life out of the middle of Zimbabwe's innings