De Silva calls on spirit of 1984

By Richard Edwards

ARAVINDA DE Silva is hoping Sri Lanka can go back to the future in England over the next month – 40 years after the country’s first Test at Lord’s.
The left-handed maestro was a member of that side, making his Test bow as a teenager in St John’s Wood.
Now he believes Sri Lanka need to re-discover their identity in the longest format and take a leaf out of England’s Bazball playbook to put a smile back on the face of cricket’s great entertainers.
“We probably haven’t made as much progress in Test cricket as w...

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