ICC Champions Trophy semi-final: Five things to look out for when India meet Sri Lanka

2. The Sri Lankan veterans

The idea behind promoting Angelo Matthews to the captain’s role was to look ahead to the 2015 World Cup. However, the performances of Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene have proved that they will have a key role to play in this vision as they still continue to be leaders on the pitch. Sangakkara’s century against England was one of the greatest knocks in the history of this competition. Mahela was not in form coming into this competition, but he scored a valuable fifty against England and made a match-winning contribution against the Aussies. India will remember the century he scored against them in the World Cup final and will be wary of the threat he poses.