In denial? Not the Lankans

Times Media

TELFORD VICE, Colombo

Whatever else is said about Sri Lanka’s performance in the first test, which SA won by 153 runs in Galle on Sunday, denial is not among their problems.

They know they need to fix what went wrong, and they know they need to do so in the second test starting at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo today.

Sanath Jayasuriya has given up smashing fear into bowlers for what he would have thought – before he needed minor heart surgery early this month – was the quieter...