{"id":68645,"date":"2025-08-15T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68645\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T10:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:23:10","slug":"3-sri-lankan-test-series-make-wisdens-top-15-of-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68645\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Sri Lankan Test Series make Wisden\u2019s Top 15 of Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-199060\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot_20250815_111415_X.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"391\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Three Sri Lankan Test series have been ranked among the 15 greatest of the 21st century by Wisden.<\/p>\n<p>The list features Sri Lanka\u2019s thrilling 1-0 win over England in 2014, the 1-1 drawn series in the West Indies in 2018, and Australia\u2019s 3-0 sweep in Sri Lanka in 2004 \u2013 dubbed \u201cthe closest clean sweep\u201d in Test history.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 series saw both matches decided in the final over, with Angelo Mathews\u2019 men clinching a dramatic victory at Headingley. The 2018 tour of the Caribbean was marked by high drama, including a ball-tampering controversy and Sri Lanka\u2019s fightback in the decider under stand-in captain Suranga Lakmal. The 2004 series featured Sri Lanka taking first-innings leads in all three matches, only for Ricky Ponting\u2019s Australians to fight back each time for victory.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s 2020\/21 triumph in Australia topped the Wisden rankings, while the 2025 Anderson\u2013Tendulkar Trophy between England and India was placed fifth. (Newswire)<\/p>\n<p>Full Report<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisden.com\/series\/england-vs-india-m-2025\/cricket-features\/15-greatest-test-series-21st-century-where-2025-anderson-tendulkar-trophy-rank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.wisden.com\/series\/england-vs-india-m-2025\/cricket-features\/15-greatest-test-series-21st-century-where-2025-anderson-tendulkar-trophy-rank<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Sri Lankan Test series have been ranked among the 15 greatest of the 21st century by Wisden.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-68645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}