Ali and Stokes celebrate after the latter took the catch to remove Dickwella Eranga Jayawardena/APEngland needed just 31 minutes to wrap up victory in the Kandy Test match by 57 runs and secure an historic 2-0 series win, their first series win away from home since January 2016, when they triumphed in South Africa, and their first in Sri Lanka since 2001. The match resumed in an atmosphere of high tension with Sri Lanka needing 75 with three wickets remaining and for five overs Niroshan Dickwella and Akila Dhananjaya were largely untroubled as they knocked around singles and Dickwella swept and reverse swept against Moeen Ali and Jack Leach. Then Ali struck twice in three balls to put the outcome beyond doubt. First, he had Dickwella caught by Ben Stokes at slip, a classic off-spinner’s dismissal against a left-hander,…

Source: The Times November 18, 2018 09:00 UTC