Test cricket's slowest double-centurion

It was 11.45pm last night when some of us journalists walked into the bar where we bumped into the India team celebrating the series win

Wednesday was Sri Lanka’s Independence Day and the teams were invited to a Presidential function

"Tidy but excitable behind the stumps." That's how BBC profiles Romesh Kaluwitharana

When you visit the Tamil Union Club house at the P Sarvanamuttu Stadium, a huge portrait of Don Bradman walking out to toss in 1948 with a Sri Lankan legend, Mahadevan Sathasivam, welcomes you.

The Tamil Union Cricket Club in Colombo, which Muttiah Muralitharan plays for, was once formed “by the Tamils for the Tamils”, but ironically, the club is now run largely by the Sinhalese

The concept of the return series, barely months after the teams have faced each other drives the intensity out of the contest, writes Harsha Bhogle in espnstar.com

The information desk tells me the taxi fare to the hotel will cost me 2300 Sri Lankan rupees