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Cook finally quashes security questions?

Stephen Cook has now struck the most hundreds by a South African this year. It's time to stop asking how Cook scores his runs, and acknowledge that he does

28-Dec-2016•Firdose Moonda in Port Elizabeth

Cook's stellar year, and a dip in average for Amla

Stats highlights from the third day of the first Test between South Africa and Sri Lanka in Port Elizabeth

28-Dec-2016•Gaurav Sundararaman

Lakmal, a day in the life

Suranga Lakmal took a maiden five-wicket haul, and then settled down to watch Sri Lanka bat. We put ourselves in his shoes

27-Dec-2016•Andrew Fidel Fernando in Port Elizabeth

South Africa aim for the snake's head

Even though South Africa wasted two reviews on Angelo Mathews, their bowlers made sure targeting the Sri Lanka captain paid rich dividends eventually

27-Dec-2016•Firdose Moonda in Port Elizabeth

Lakmal's unlikely headline act changes the script

It was looking ominous for Sri Lanka when the scoreboard passed 100 without a wicket, but then their senior pace bowler came out of the shadows

26-Dec-2016•Andrew Fidel Fernando at Port Elizbaeth

A tale of contrasting veterans

Hashim Amla is slowing down after a long and illustrious career; JP Duminy is just threatening to fulfil his potential. But, with AB de Villiers waiting in the wings, both men need a big score

26-Dec-2016•Firdose Moonda at Port Elizabeth

Getting starts, getting out

Stats highlights from the opening day in Port Elizabeth, which witnessed a rare century opening stand, and several batsmen getting out after getting starts

26-Dec-2016•S Rajesh

The pillars of Sri Lanka's future

As Sri Lanka begin a major overseas assignment, a clutch of young players have been tasked with making the side a force in international cricket again. We profile four of them

25-Dec-2016•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Herath's magic show goes on tour again

Sri Lanka's No. 1 spinner won't exactly be a pushover just because he is playing away from home

25-Dec-2016•Andrew Fidel Fernando in Port Elizabeth

Which Sri Lanka can South Africa expect?

Sri Lanka have a rising crop of young batsmen and an underrated pace attack, but their record away from home will cause fans to mix optimism and trepidation

23-Dec-2016•Andrew Fidel Fernando

St George's promises hospitable opener

The schedule for Sri Lanka's tour of South Africa should work in the tourists' favour, with the Port Elizabeth pitch likely to serve up an even contest

22-Dec-2016•Firdose Moonda

Nine wickets in the final session, and the most runs after 40

Also: most wickets in a two-Test series, and the highest total that could not forestall defeat

06-Dec-2016•Steven Lynch

Of Sean Williams and fielding

Terrific fielding, not-so-terrific fielding and Sean Williams feature prominently in the plays from the tri-series final in Bulawayo

27-Nov-2016•Sirish Raghavan

When Dickwella played the 'Dilscoop'

Niroshan Dickwella's scoop, Kusal Mendis' missed opportunity and West Indies' poor running in plays from the penultimate tri-series fixture

23-Nov-2016•Shashank Kishore

Kulasekara takes two in the field, Jayasuriya gives one

Plays of the day from the second match of the tri-nation series between Sri Lanka and West Indies

16-Nov-2016•Nikhil Kalro

Australia's worst starts, and players stranded on 99 at day's end

Also: the oldest to 350 wickets, the oldest surviving ODI players, and more

15-Nov-2016•Steven Lynch

Gunaratne's seam-up variation, Panyangara's errant front foot

Plays of the day from the first match of the Zimbabwe tri-series, between the hosts and Sri Lanka

14-Nov-2016•Karthik Krishnaswamy

Rangana Herath: first captain with eight-for since 1985

Rangana Herath got to several milestones during the course of his 13-wicket haul in the second Test against Zimbabwe

10-Nov-2016•Gaurav Sundararaman

Herath completes the five-for set

Rangana Herath took his first five-wicket haul against Zimbabwe, joining Dale Steyn and Muttiah Muralitharan as bowlers to have taken a five-for against every Test-playing nation

08-Nov-2016•Gaurav Sundararaman

Sri Lanka's fringe players make their mark

Though tours of Zimbabwe are potential banana skins for fringe players, Dhananjaya de Silva and Asela Gunaratne have put in clutch performances and made themselves hard to ignore

07-Nov-2016•Tristan Holme in Harare

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