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The final hour of the fourth day in Galle threw up the type of drama that makes Test cricket such a bewitching sport; one of those passages of play you wish you could stick in front of the eyeballs of its money-obsessed administrators, Clockwork Orange-style, when they talk about the format’s impending demise.Sri Lanka had fought back admirably from their opening-day meltdown with the bat but when Jack Leach claimed his second Test five-wicket haul, eventually rolling the host for 359 all out with the removal of Angelo Mathews for...