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An extraordinary power struggle between the national selectors and the Sri Lankan team may have dominated the build-up to the second Janashakthi National Test against Zimbabwe at Kandy but local hero Muttiah Muralitharan soon grabbed the limelight

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Muttiah Muralitharan finished the first day of the second Janashakthi National Test with nine wickets, agonisingly short of a world record, with Jim Laker's best ever Test bowling of 10/53 well within his sights

The Sri Lankan cricket team were on a high

Kandy's reputation for the bizarre and unpredictable was enhanced further on the eve of the second Test against Zimbabwe when the Sri Lankan selectors made two unexpected changes, resting vice-captain Marvan Atapattu and promising fast bowler

Leg-spinner Brian Murphy has been forced out of Zimbabwe's tour of Sri Lanka after a sustaining a new hand injury

Sri Lankan cricket enjoyed a roller coaster ride in 2001

Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan was the highest wicket-taker and the most prolific spinner ever in a calendar year during 2001

Sri Lankan sports minister Johnston Fernando has reappointed the recently resigned interim committee to run the affairs of the cricket board until further notice

Statistical review - 2001

It came slower than expected, as afternoon rain and some studied defense threatened to take the game into the final day, but Sri Lanka eventually triumphed to seal their six consecutive Test victory - a first for a sub-continental side - and take an

Zimbabwean captain Stuart Carlisle tried to look on the bright side after his team crashed to an innings defeat against Sri Lanka in the opening Janashakthi National Test on Monday but admitted that they needed to think long and hard at how to

Sri Lankan captain Sanath Jayasuriya praised the efforts of his bowlers on Saturday after their grueling and successful endeavors in the scorching heat at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo

As a full moon holiday in Colombo brought the first Test to a temporary halt on Sunday, Zimbabwean captain Stuart Carlisle was left ruing a string of poor umpiring decisions on the first three days that leaves his side facing a massive innings defeat

Zimbabwe were left facing an innings defeat at the Sinhalese Sports Club on Saturday after being forced to follow on 402 runs in arrears in the first Janashakthi National Test

The opening day of the series may have high in tedium and low in excitement, but on day two Sri Lanka raised the tempo, cashing in on a Zimbabwean bowling attack lacking control, variation and penetration, as they piled up a mammoth first innings

It started in blistering sunshine and ended prematurely because of a spectacular tropical storm, but otherwise the first day of the Janashakthi National Test series was boringly predictable

For Zimbabwe's cricket team, Christmas was fun whilst it lasted

Middle order batsman Chamara Silva celebrated his call-up into the Sri Lankan Test squad with a brilliant hundred to guide his Board XI side to a dramatic five-wicket win against Zimbabwe at P

Janashakthi Insurance has come forward to sponsor Zimbabwe's three-Test tour of Sri Lanka, which will now be called the Janashakthi National Test series