Following India's 2-1 defeat in the Test series against Sri Lanka, Sandeep Dwivedi wonders whether the side left it a little too late in phasing out seniors. He writes in the Indian Express:
Sri Lanka have done it, and the results are there to see. They have resisted the temptation of redrafting the in-form 39-year-old opener Sanath Jayasuriya in the Test side and he hasn’t been missed. The sight of opener Malinda Warnapura returning with a stump in one hand along with skipper Mahela Jayawardene showed that the Lankans had passed the uncomfortable transition stage.
In the Daily News, like everyone else Elmo Rodrigopulle is awed by Ajantha Mendis' performance in his debut Test series. The transformed P Sara Stadium also caught the writer's attention, and he goes down memory lane:
As a tender cricketer I had taken in a lot of the Colombo Oval as it was then known from the newspapers. My first sight was as a 15 year old when coaches Edward Kelart, Francis Casiechetty and Prefect of Games A. Gnanapragasam took the Benedictine team of 1957 with Lovellyn Rayen as captain for a practice session.
It was like Alice being in wonderland. I stood again to take in the first sights of this beautiful Oval and its imposing scoreboard that saw some of the cricketing greats such as the lord of cricket Sir Donald Bradman, the terrible Ws - Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes, Clyde Walcott, Keith Miller, Neil Harvey, Lindsay Hassett and many others had shown their prowess, including the great Mahadevan Sathasivam and Ivers Gunasekera of Sri Lanka.
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