Persistent India complete rare series win

Angelo Mathews made a defiant century but couldn't prevent India from wrapping up a 117-run win that sealed their first away series win in four years

Sharmas take India to within seven wickets of win

India were seven wickets from their first series win in Sri Lanka since 1993 after Rohit Sharma, followed by lower-order contributions, all but batted Sri Lanka out of the game

Test in balance after 15-wicket day

India made up for all the time lost to rain on the first two days by reducing Sri Lanka to 47 for 6, but the hosts negated India's advantage by adding 154 with their last four wickets and taking India's first three wickets for seven runs

Pujara's fighting ton holds India together

Cheteshwar Pujara scored his first Test century since the last month of 2013 to deny Sri Lanka clear advantage in the rain-hit SSC Test

Sri Lanka take two on rain-hit day

Asked to bat on a testing, grassy pitch, India held on grimly - with some luck on their side - to keep the damage down to two wickets on a rain-hit first day

All 60 wickets to India bowlers, and a rare comeback

Stats highlights from the third Test between Sri Lanka and India at the SSC where India completed a rare away series win

India bowlers find way past Mathews, Perera

The Sinhalese speakers club

What better place to brush up your language skills than the Sri Lankan capital?

Ishant, Prasad, Chandimal and Thirimanne charged by ICC

Ishant Sharma Dhammika Prasad, Dinesh Chandimal and Lahiru Thirimanne have been charged by the ICC for their roles in several angry exchanges during the fourth day of the SSC Test

India's will to win tested by searing conditions

On a steaming Colombo day, victory did not come easily to India. But the team kept its focus, intensity and clarity of thought going, and reaped the benefits

Flexible Rohit backs shot-making ability

Rohit Sharma, whose batting position is always a topic of discussion, said that he was ready to bat wherever the team wanted him to besides backing his strokeplay

Why is Pujara given short shrift?

He averages better than Rohit Sharma but still has to fight for a place in the Test side, mostly because he doesn't play ODIs

Opening lows, and Prasad's best

Stats highlights from the fourth day of the third Test between Sri Lanka and India at the SSC

India must renew focus with finish line in sight

Seven wickets stand between India and a rare overseas series win. They may be close, but they must remember the job is not yet done. To get there, they must put head over heart

India tighten grip on SSC Test

SL's tragic hero treads a lonely road, again

If other men were witness to as much incompetence as Angelo Mathews has become used to, dressing rooms might have been set ablaze

Tempers flare as Ishant, Prasad face off

The Sri Lanka-India Test series witnessed its first major boil-over on its penultimate day following a spat between Ishant Sharma and Dhammika Prasad towards the end of India's second innings at the SSC

Sri Lanka shoot themselves by shaking batting line-up

Whatever the end result, Sri Lanka's young batsmen have some distance to go. They had a seaming pitch, and tried to pull a gun on India. They fumbled with the trigger and shot themselves in the kneecap instead

Best figures by an India pacer in SL

Stats highlights from the SSC where 15 wickets fell on the third day of the third Test between Sri Lanka and India

SL hit back after India take 111-run lead

Another bowling display of two halves

For the fifth time in the last year and a half, India had their opponents five down for less than 100 only to let the lower order off the hook

'Great to be on the right side of the fence'

A round-up of the Twitter reactions to India's 2-1 series win in Sri Lanka

Prasad's spell and zest add spark to frustrating Test

In this series, and in the one before it, Dhammika Prasad has been superbly watchable, always up to something, often with the ball, other times with his body language

Resolute Pujara shines in stop-gap role

Cheteshwar Pujara's century was proof that at times in Test match play, survival need not mean mere tentativeness but the ability to wait for simpler things, like the loose ball

Pujara's Asia average, and Prasad's home run

Stats highlights from an engrossing day at the SSC

Pujara, Prasad star on tough day

This series a revelation with this bowling attack - Kohli

Virat Kohli looked back at his team's 2-1 series win over Sri Lanka and said, "I think this series belongs to the bowlers because they have been outstanding, they have really stood out in this series"

Bangar concerned by unfamiliar seam movement

Only 15 overs were bowled on day one at the SSC but in that time, India's inexperienced top-order batsmen were exposed to seam movement they were unfamiliar with, the visitors' batting coach Sanjay Bangar said

Ishant, Chandimal handed one-match bans

Ishant Sharma and Dinesh Chandimal have been handed one-match suspensions for their behaviour in the SSC Test

Sri Lanka fret over batting order

Angelo Mathews has confirmed Upul Tharanga will take Kumar Sangakkara's place, but said the team management was 'giving the batting order a bit more thought'

Sri Lanka's unbeaten SSC streak

Stats preview of the third Test between Sri Lanka and India at the SSC, Colombo