All-rounder Stokes has been charged with bringing the game into disrepute by the England and Wales Cricket Board. read more

As England found to their dismay last summer, pace trumps all in Australia, the home trio of Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood filling their boots with more than 20 wickets apiece to help thrash Joe Root’s team 4-0. read more

Aaron Hardie had Virat Kohli caught and bowled for 64 as India prepared for next week’s opening Test by scoring 358 all out against a Cricket Australia XI on day two of the four-day match. read more

England had won the first Test in Galle by 211 runs and the second in Pallekele by 57 runs to win their first series in Sri Lanka in 17 years. read more

England beat Sri Lanka by 42 runs in the third and final test in Colombo on Monday to complete a 3-0 series sweep. read more

Catch all the highlights of the third day of the third Test between Sri Lanka and England. read more

Rashid claimed a career-best 5-49, also effecting a run-out with a direct throw, while Stokes returned 3-30 in a lion-hearted display of pace bowling on a spin-friendly track to earn England a first-innings lead of 96. read more

Catch all the action as Sri Lanka take on England on Day 2 of the third Test at Colombo through our live blog. read more

At stumps on day one, England, 2-0 up in the series, were 312-7, Bairstow having made 110 after valuable partnerships with Joe Root and Ben Stokes, who made a half-century. read more

Apart from these three tosses against Sri Lanka, Joe Root won the toss in all the five matches of the series against India. A series that England went on to win 4-1. read more

It was Mominul Haque’s third century in consecutive innings at this ground, and his fourth anywhere this year -- only India’s Virat Kohli has scored as many Test centuries in 2018 so far. read more

Ricky Ponting’s all-conquering Australian side were the first to win 3-0 in Sri Lanka 14 years ago, while a Virat Kohli-led India repeated the feat in August last year. read more

It was England’s first away series win since beating South Africa in 2015-16 and their first series win in Sri Lanka since 2001. read more

“What a performance from Joe root and England on that surface ..one of the best test hundreds one will see on a pitch which is turning square .. @root66 @ParthJindal11 @ECB_cricket,” Ganguly wrote on Twitter. read more

Joe Root’s 15th Test hundred gave England a great opportunity to wrap up a series win in Sri Lanka. read more