"It's actually a good fifth day pitch. Just a few cracks, which are bare minimum. And hence, if you trusted your defense, as batters have shown right throughout this Test match, you can survive. You're not going to score fast, but you can bat and bat and put the pressure on the opposition. Going across again, it looks so, so good, but just around the good length area, a bit of crumbling. The soil has been dispersed but been swept away. It doesn't look dangerous at all. Well, it's a matter of time here today. Sri Lanka will look up (pointing to the skies). There doesn't seem to be any help coming from up there for the moment. Well, you do the hard work early, you reap the rewards. That's what India have done," reads Russel Arnold.