Sri Lanka tour of England and Ireland 2014 News

Angelo Mathews: '2014 was the best year of my career and the England series was the icing on the cake'
The allrounder looks back at Sri Lanka's memorable Test series win in England ten years ago
And on the third day, Test cricket rose again
Sri Lanka have been so poor, they might have mistaken for harbingers of Test cricket's doom. But the maligned sport just keeps grinding along
Sri Lanka's triumph of attitude
They won in England by playing tough, bloody-minded cricket, refusing to take a backward step, on or off the pitch
Stats gems you couldn't unearth even if you made them up
We bring you super numbers from England and the Caribbean, and two that feature Alok Kapali
Why so passive, England?
England have become a reactive batting side, content to respond to given field settings than to manipulate them

Barren middle overs

130

Balls England faced without scoring a boundary, between Joe Root's four in the 9th over and Jos Buttler's in the 31st

65.13

Tillakaratne Dilshan's 71 off 109 balls was his second-slowest ODI score of fifty or more

100

Kumar Sangakkara's century is his first triple-figure score at Lord's in international cricket

172

The 172-run partnership between Tillakaratne Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara was Sri Lanka's third-highest for the second wicket in ODIs