It's not only the weather that's cold and gloomy

The cold, the rain and an umpire from the past - None of it helped Murali and Co.

ENGLAND are rarely long into a tour of the sub-continent before “difficult” conditions become an issue. Victories are the more laudable for being achieved in searing heat and defeats are explained away on a similar theme. Perhaps we should flip the coin on to the other side. Over the past days Sri Lanka themselves will have felt far from home writes Richard Hobson in The Times