Rahul Dravid

It was an evening filled with emotion in Mumbai - Rahul Dravid almost cried and VVS Laxman had moist eyes, while Anil Kumble, Sourav Ganguly and MS Dhoni sang praises of Dravid, one of the flagbearers of Indian cricket's golden generation.

The occasion was Dravid's felicitation by the BCCI, following his recently announced retirement from international and first-class cricket. Two of the biggest men in Indian cricket, BCCI president N Srinivasan (unwell) and Sachin Tendulkar (reasons unknown) might have been absent, but the event, which took place on the plush lawns of a five-star hotel, was still very well attended. Many prominent former cricketers - including Sunil Gavaskar, Ajit Wadekar, Bishan Bedi, Mohinder Amarnath and Dilip Vengsarkar - and the entire India squad that will play the one-off Twenty20 against South Africa, along with senior BCCI officials, were there.

England vs Sri Lanka

England will have to achieve a record fourth-innings score of 340 if they are to win the first Test of the series against Sri Lanka in Galle.

No team has scored more than 253 in the fourth innings of any of the 18 previous Tests on this ground but England's batsmen - who have been dismissed for under 260 in six of their last seven Test innings and haven't scored more than 327 since the Test series against India - will need to make considerably more if they are to avoid a fourth successive Test defeat. It will provide little comfort for them to know that the highest successful fourth-innings chase at the ground is just 96 and that England have never successfully chased more than 332 to win a Test.