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'Getting Sri Lanka back on track is a long, slow process'

Graham Ford, the team's coach, wants the island's special brand of cricket firing through his young team again

07-Jun-2016•Interview by Andrew Fidel Fernando

Gamini Goonesena, Ceylon's polymath

Goonesena was the buccaneering all-round Sri Lankan talent, who plied his trade with distinction well before his country made ripples in the cricketing world

06-Jun-2016•Rob Collins

The summer stats quiz (aka the England-Sri Lanka numbers you don't know)

Or how to infuse extra meaning into Anderson's five-fors and Sri Lanka's sub-100 total

02-Jun-2016•Andy Zaltzman

The nervous 9990s, and most wickets before conceding a run

Plus: the first to 50, 100 and 150 Tests, and the lowest Test total featuring four bowling centurions

31-May-2016•Steven Lynch

Cook: Numbers that speak of patience and grit

By reaching 10,000 Test runs, Alastair Cook has scaled a summit that 623 England players who made their Test debut before him couldn't.

30-May-2016•Shiva Jayaraman

Chandimal helps SL reclaim their identity

With his effervescent character and homespun technique, Dinesh Chandimal embodies something of the island spirit - as well as the fight his team had lost

30-May-2016•Andrew Fidel Fernando at Chester-le-Street

Chandimal makes England work for victory

30-May-2016•ESPNcricinfo staff

Sri Lanka find their fight ... and their off stumps

Today Sri Lanka began to pee on the raging fire they had started on day two, but flames are still licking the walls and roof

29-May-2016•Andrew Fidel Fernando at Chester-le-Street

Finn struggles for rhythm but deserves to be given a break

Steven Finn hasn't generated the pace with which he made his name and there is some talk that he could be the man to make way once Ben Stokes is fit

29-May-2016•George Dobell at Chester-le-Street

And on the third day, Test cricket rose again

Sri Lanka have been so poor, they might have mistaken for harbingers of Test cricket's doom. But the maligned sport just keeps grinding along

29-May-2016•Jarrod Kimber at Chester-le-Street

Sri Lanka battle in the follow-on

29-May-2016•ESPNcricinfo staff

Carefree Moeen finds his flow again

Moeen Ali's unbeaten 155 was the sort of innings to make hearts beat faster, as well as a reminder that statistics only tell half a tale

28-May-2016•George Dobell at Chester-le-Street

Everyman Herath waddles into history

He became the second-oldest man to reach 300 Test wickets - and possibly the least fit - but Rangana Herath's story is the best of what sport has to offer

28-May-2016•Andrew Fidel Fernando at Chester-le-Street

Leaden Mathews leads SL nowhere

Far from a towering, inspiring, regal presence, Angelo Mathews just stood and watched as England steamrolled his side once again

28-May-2016•Jarrod Kimber at Chester-le-Street

Moeen hits century as Sri Lanka wilt

28-May-2016•ESPNcricinfo staff

Time running out for nervy Compton

Despite insisting that he will continue to play his natural game, Nick Compton's recent dismissals suggest he is trying to be something he is not

27-May-2016•George Dobell at Chester-le-Street

For once, SL avoid being caught cold

The icy conditions may have had Sri Lanka supporters fearing the worst but this was a glorious day of competence in the field by Angelo Mathews' side

27-May-2016•Andrew Fidel Fernando at Chester-le-Street

Root's impressive conversion rate

Stats highlights from the first day's play at Chester-le-Street where Alastair Cook fell five short of completing 10000 Test runs.

27-May-2016•Shiva Jayaraman

Hales, Root set England agenda

27-May-2016•ESPNcricinfo staff

England's mastery of swinging conditions cannot mask progress

Sri Lanka are not the first touring team to struggle in typical English conditions, but that fact does not detract from James Anderson's magnificence

22-May-2016•George Dobell at Headingley

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