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Recently Sri Lanka played its 250th test match and I thought it’s the best time to discuss about some great test wins. To this date Sri Lanka has played 261 test matches where they could win 78 matches and have lost 89 matches and 70 matches with no results.  Within the 78 wins, let’s try spot out few of them. There is no rating for the won matches. Also the matches discussed here were selected from my watched match list and selection was based on some criteria. Venue, opponent, best way to win a match, memorable moments, specialty of win and the key contributions to the win are few of the criteria. Again, I recon these wins are best wins; someone may critic on the selection which is his/her perspective. And the matches are listed in the played order where the old one is listed first. First Ever Test Win in England Soil First among the list was played at Oval, in 1998 against England. Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to field. Though Murali could pick up 7 wickets for 155

Firstly I would welcome me for blogging after quite a long time. I haven't thought about this post until I read Andrew Fernando's article about Sri Lanka's 250th test in Cricinfo. Actually it induced me to think a bit about Sri Lanka's test journey and its achievement on this special occasion because of the passion towards cricket specially towards Sri Lanka's cricket.  Sri Lanka made the first appearance in test cricket on 17th of February 1982 in Colombo against England in which Sri Lanka lost the match by 7 wickets.  The second test against Australia in Galle during 2016/17 season is their 250th test appearance which implies it took 34 years for them to play their 250th test match on 4th of August 2016. Perhaps this match was the 253rd test match for Sri Lanka officially  but due to the cancellation of 3 matches during the period, effectively this became as the 250th test match. Sri Lanka could achieve their first test win in their 14th appearan