Date-stamped : 02 Jul95 - 14:26
Tour match: SRI LANKA BOARD PRESIDENT'S XI v ENGLAND
Played at Kandy, 9-11 February 1982.

Although England`s first game in Sri Lanka was no more in  danger
of  reaching a positive result than the last five tests in India,
there were compensations for the home side in the promising  form
of  Madugalle  and  Ratnayeke.  Madugalle, a slender 22-year-old,
showed engaging disrespect for reputation, confidently using  the
air  to punish the spin of Emburey and Underwood, while the wide-
shouldered Ratnayeke, a year younger than  Madugalle,  was   full
value  for his five for 120. Without straining for pace he bowled
a full fast-medium and maintained a good line. For England,  Cook
continued  his staunch battle for Test recognition with a chance-
less 104 in three and three-quarter hours, his second first-class
hundred  in succession. A newly laid pitch played fairly true, if
slow, but the natural beauty of what was to be Sri Lanka`s second
Test ground was marred by a bare and bumpy outfield.

Source: Wisden 1983.
<END> Contributed by J.R.F.Evans (en92jrfe@exeter.ac.uk)