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'My focus was on how I was going to score off every ball'

Mahela Jayawardene's recent fourth-innings hundred in Galle was one for the ages, produced over nearly four hours in conditions favouring the bowling side. He looks back at what went into the knock

29-Sep-2011•As told to Daniel Brettig

Plane tales from the hills

Galle to Colombo? Our fearless correspondent takes an unconventional mode of transport and lives to tell the tale

27-Sep-2011•Daniel Brettig

All-round consistency seals triumph

In a series where neither team enjoyed a sustained dominance, Australia's disciplined performance with both bat and ball proved to be the crucial difference in the end

21-Sep-2011•Madhusudhan Ramakrishnan

At last, a captain's knock

Michael Clarke's poise as a leader has been striking, exhibiting a superb feel for the game. But he waited until the final day of the series to produce the sort of spinal contribution that can define a captain

20-Sep-2011•Daniel Brettig at the SSC

Missed stumpings and a long conversation

Plays of the Day from the fifth day of the SSC Test between Sri Lanka and Australia

20-Sep-2011•Daniel Brettig at the SSC

Marsh's lapse of reason

ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the day from the fourth day of the third Test between Sri Lanka and Australia, in Colombo

19-Sep-2011•Daniel Brettig in Colombo

A hundred that Mathews might grow to regret

Angelo Mathews crawled to his maiden Test century at the SSC, and in doing so, did the game more harm than good

19-Sep-2011•Daniel Brettig in Colombo

Johnson still searching for consistency

Mitchell Johnson is struggling, and while it is not clear why, it could have something to do with his uneasy bowling action

18-Sep-2011•Daniel Brettig in Colombo

A wrestling match and a lucky catch

ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the Day from the third day of the third Test between Sri Lanka and Australia, in Colombo

18-Sep-2011•Daniel Brettig in Colombo

A stitch in time and lightning reflexes

ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the Day from the second day of the third Test between Sri Lanka and Australia, in Colombo

17-Sep-2011•Daniel Brettig in Colombo

Another first-ball wicket and the milestone that wasn't

ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the Day from the first day of the third Test between Sri Lanka and Australia, in Colombo

16-Sep-2011•Daniel Brettig in Colombo

Marsh shows up Ponting and Clarke

Shaun Marsh appeared to be the only man in Australia's top five to have an appropriate grasp of the demands of Test match batting

16-Sep-2011•Daniel Brettig in Colombo

Sri Lanka's stand-out performer overseas

Playing in a team whose batsmen have regularly struggled outside Sri Lanka, Kumar Sangakkara has stood out because of his consistency and reliability in away Tests

15-Sep-2011•Madhusudhan Ramakrishnan

Harris as valuable as he is fragile

Australia's success thus far in Sri Lanka could not have taken place without Ryan Harris and his combination of speed, swing and seam

12-Sep-2011•Daniel Brettig in Pallekele

Another missing frame and Hussey strikes again

ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the Day from the fourth day of the second Test between Sri Lanka and Australia, in Pallekele

11-Sep-2011•Daniel Brettig in Pallekele

Sri Lanka's batting finally comes good

While their bowling attack has been weakened by retirements, there are no excuses for Sri Lanka's batting failures in this series, and the batsmen took what was, perhaps, their last chance to assert themselves

11-Sep-2011•Daniel Brettig in Pallekele

Marsh performs, who will perish?

Shaun Marsh's debut century has opened up one of Australian cricket's most significant selection debates and has put pressure on numerous incumbents, including Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke

10-Sep-2011•Daniel Brettig in Pallekele

Sangakkara's role-switch, Watson's Dilshan-moment

ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the Day from the second day of the second Test between Sri Lanka and Australia, in Pallekele

09-Sep-2011•Daniel Brettig in Pallekele

Newcastle revisited

Shaun Marsh's maiden first-class ton came in the company of Michael Hussey eight years ago in Newcastle, and, so far, he's looked good to repeat the feat in Test cricket in Pallekele

09-Sep-2011•Daniel Brettig in Pallekele

The leader and the left-over

While Michael Clarke has looked the part of leader of his team in the series so far, Tillakaratne Dilshan seems to be finding it hard to cope with the complex demands of captaining Sri Lanka

08-Sep-2011•Daniel Brettig in Pallekele

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