Following on

Australia will end their glorious reign as the No. 1 team in Test cricket if they were to lose in Nagpur. Heralding a new era, Lawrence Booth in his blog on the Wisden Cricketer website believes Sri Lanka are the most likely to pick up the baton, though India may be the conventional favourite, as he takes a look at the possible successors.

Sri Lanka's nucleus of top players may be small, but it is unrivalled in its quality: Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene score most of their runs; Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis take most of their wickets. So what a shame it is that Sri Lanka’s next scheduled Test match was May in England, a tour that will almost certainly not now take place.