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How often has a Test innings started with one captain bowling to the other?

And how many Test batters have converted their last two Test centuries into doubles?

13-Jun-2023•Steven Lynch

Thisara Perera - 79 matches, nine MoM awards

Stats highlights from the third ODI between Sri Lanka and Pakistan in Dambulla, which Sri Lanka dominated from start to finish to set up one of their most convincing wins

30-Aug-2014•S Rajesh

Thisara's bumpers, and a contentious line call

Plays of the day from the third ODI between Sri Lanka and Pakistan in Dambulla

30-Aug-2014•Karthik Krishnaswamy

Mathews - 0 hundreds, 22 fifties

A stats review of the second ODI between Sri Lanka and Pakistan at Hambantota

26-Aug-2014•Bishen Jeswant

Don't lap sweep when Sangakkara keeps

Plays of the day from the second ODI between Sri Lanka and Pakistan, in Hambantota

26-Aug-2014•Siddarth Ravindran

Errant elbows, and Priyanjan's shuffle

Plays of the day from the first ODI between Sri Lanka and Pakistan

23-Aug-2014•Karthik Krishnaswamy

Sarfraz stands tall amid Pakistan ruins

Pakistan's marks out of ten after their 2-0 defeat in the Tests against Sri Lanka

19-Aug-2014•Umar Farooq

Perfect Herath leads SL dominance

Sri Lanka's marks out of 10 following their 2-0 series win against Pakistan

19-Aug-2014•Andrew Fidel Fernando

The people's man bids them adieu

To the people who have loved him, Mahela Jayawardene has never seemed like an A-lister. Almost 20 years after he became a celebrity, he has remained, unmistakeably, a man of the people

18-Aug-2014•Andrew Fidel Fernando at the SSC

Herath betters Murali, Sarfraz equals Andy Flower

Stats highlights from Sri Lanka's comprehensive Test win by 105 runs at the SSC

18-Aug-2014•S Rajesh

Many questions for Pakistan's batting

Following yet another Pakistan batting collapse, it's time to take a good long look at team composition and strategy

17-Aug-2014•Umar Farooq at the SSC

Sangakkara scotches retirement fears

Kumar Sangakkara's wave of the bat after falling for 58 triggered worries about whether he was set to quit Test cricket

17-Aug-2014•Andrew Fidel Fernando at the SSC

A fitting swansong for Jayawardene

Mahela Jayawardene's farewell innings was not his most fluent, but at the end of it all, there was no wistful lingering or sentimentality - just a typically restrained acknowledgement of an exhilarating ride

17-Aug-2014•Andrew Fidel Fernando at the SSC

A tense artist's final strive for perfection

Mahela Jayawardene has won matches off his bat, and thrilled crowds from around the world, but he has never been about the tidy, round numbers

16-Aug-2014•Andrew Fidel Fernando at SSC

A century after 1998 days

Stats highlights from an eventful third day, when a bowler took nine wickets in an innings for the first time in 12 years, and a Pakistan wicketkeeper got a Test hundred for the first time since February 2009

16-Aug-2014•S Rajesh

Herath's pledge, turn and prestige

Rangana Herath may lack the turn of a Murali or the guile of an Ajmal, but his immaculate set-up has still left many batsmen scratching their heads

15-Aug-2014•Andrew Fidel Fernando at the SSC

Tharanga, Hitchcock horror or Eastwood western?

There are very few batsmen in international cricket who play each ball so differently from the next like Upul Tharanga, who continues to polarise fans with such an approach

14-Aug-2014•Andrew Fidel Fernando at the SSC

Master of silken savagery

He was an artiste who crafted the most technically demanding shots to perfection but lived for the pure adrenaline of battle

12-Aug-2014•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Galle revels in perfect day

The ground slowly filled and the tension slowly built, even the clouds held off from bursting as Sri Lanka closed in on a memorable win

10-Aug-2014•Andrew Fidel Fernando in Galle

Pakistan undone by conservative approach

The fifth day began with a draw looking imminent, but Pakistan's batsmen went into a shell, allowing the spinners to get on top of them and allowing Sri Lanka to force a win

10-Aug-2014•Umar Farooq in Galle

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