Planning the perfect 7-day Sri Lanka itinerary is no easy task. It’s difficult to capture the country’s essence in words. The island evokes emotions that change almost hourly, depending on the weather, atmosphere or area – from mile upon mile of tropical jungle to windswept palm-tree-backed beaches and rolling green tea plantations.

After a day in which almost everything went right for the Black Caps, the opposite threatened to sink their prospects in the first test against Sri Lanka. The tourists stacked together their two worst sessions of the opening three days in Galle,

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Dinesh Chandimal and Dimuth Karunaratne forged an unbroken 128-run partnership to propel hosts Sri Lanka to 134-1 at tea on day three of the first Test against New Zealand on Friday. Sri Lanka drew first blood in the morning when Tom Blundell was given out caught after a review,

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Raised up the order to score even more runs, prolific middle-order batter Kamindu Mendis struck a fine hundred on Wednesday to rescue Sri Lanka from a precarious position as the hosts reached 302-7 at stumps on Day 1 of the first test against New Zealand.