Sri Lanka fret over batting order

For the past week, Sri Lanka has reflected on Kumar Sangakkara's legacy. On the eve of the deciding Test match, the team has found he has also left behind a slew of dilemmas. Sri Lanka know there is no possible substitute for Sangakkara's experience, but they do hope to scavenge together the runs he used to score. They hope to tickle the top order in just the right way, to collectively squeeze out those few additional runs.

The team has confirmed Upul Tharanga will replace Sangakkara in the XI. Though both are left-handers from Nondescripts Cricket Club, that is about where the similarities end. Where Sangakkara was Sri Lanka's sure thing, Tharanga is a man of glorious uncertainties, transitioning through lean trots and purple patches in a single over, the way most others do over long careers.

Tharanga is just 30, just 2 yrs older than Mathews & only player reaming with wealth of experience.

This is actually a welcome return for Upul Tharanga, who should never have been dropped from the Test team in the first place, after fine performances in home series against South Africa and Pakistan in 2014. Hope he bats at 3,and justifies his selction.

Well I can't say I am sad about this considering the fact that the West Indies will play them soon. Now they will know what the West Indies had to go through when their stars aged and retired.