Tim Wigmore argues action is now needed urgently to prevent the island’s game declining like Zimbabwe’s

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Another reverse: the dejected Sri Lankan team after their exit from the Champions Trophy this season
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Sometimes, the bare facts convey it better than anything else. So it is with Sri Lanka’s gruesome 3-0 home defeat to India in their Test series.
Consider these numbers. Sri Lanka took just 32 Indian wickets across the three Tests, at a cost of 60.90 apiece. India, meanwhile, had little resistanc...