14/08Result
2nd Test, Pakistan tour of Sri Lanka at Colombo, Aug 14-18 2014
Sri Lanka won by 105 runs
Player of the Match
Rangana Herath
Rangana HerathSri Lanka
14/08Result
2nd Test, Pakistan tour of Sri Lanka at Colombo, Aug 14-18 2014
Sri Lanka won by 105 runs
Player of the Match
Rangana Herath
Rangana HerathSri Lanka

Day 5

Day 4

Report
3071dThe Report by Devashish Fuloria

Pakistan tumble towards big defeat

Rangana Herath drove away any thoughts of a Sharjah-like chase by breaking the back of Pakistan batting - Azhar Ali, Misbah-ul-Haq and Younis Khan - within his first six overs

Day 3

Day 2

Day 1

Report
3071dThe Report by Devashish Fuloria

Seamers make it Pakistan's day

The Pakistan bowlers gatecrashed Mahela Jayawardene's farewell party with a disciplined display on an unresponsive pitch at the SSC

Others

2601dAndrew 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

2601dAndrew Fidel Fernando 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

2601dAndrew Fidel Fernando at the SSC

'Got a move on again in Tests' - Mathews

Angelo Mathews credited Sri Lanka's performance in all forms of cricket, after they climbed to fourth in the Test rankings after a 2-0 win over Pakistan

2601dUmar Farooq

Junaid to miss rest of the second Test

Pakistan fast bowler Junaid Khan has been advised rest and will not play the remaining days of the second Test at the SSC after he was hit by a bouncer, while batting on the third day of the Test.

2601dAndrew Fidel Fernando at the SSC

Emotional Mahela remembers the good times

"It's been an emotional day but I promise I won't cry," were Mahela Jayawardene's first words when he took the podium following his final Test

2601dS Rajesh

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

2601dAndrew Fidel Fernando at the SSC

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

2601dAndrew Fidel Fernando at the SSC

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

2601dAndrew 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

3071dUmar Farooq at the SSC

Junaid and Wahab defy flat track

The SSC is usually a batting paradise, but Pakistan's fast bowlers flourished despite the challenging conditions

A stone throw away

71

Runs Kumar Sangakkara needs to get to 12000 runs in Test cricket

Herath keeps the pace

57

Number of Tests Herath has taken to reach 250 wickets. He is fourth quickest spinner to do so.