All through the Test there has been near-silence. Only sometime after lunch, does the sound of papare spring from the stands. It is unclear where the band is seated at first. With the home team on the hunt, is the stadium summoning music from its muscle memory? Is the papares sudden eruption part of a five-day ambush for Australia? Whatever the case, it feels like the final wickets cannot fall unless the sound of a trumpet fills the air, but also, that they will fall, because it does.Around the bat, fielders are yakking. It is a team of Kusal Mendises and Dhananjaya de Silvas, but at times, it can feel like Duleep and Aravinda are there. In progress around the batsman is a Sri Lankan ritual as old as time. These men yak just like the legends. They leap, and gesticulate and spasm in appeal. Most have not played a game where the stakes are this high. But the way they ring the bat, it is as if on their first day of school, they had been handed a helmet and shin pads, and taken crouching positions around the class teacher.Shuffling forward to bowl is the only man in this XI to have tasted series victory over Australia, 17 years ago. There is always the temptation to cast Rangana Herath as the cricket worlds least likely hero: he is the banker, the old man, the chubster, the underdog. But while his young team-mates are raising old ghosts like puffs of Pallekele dust, perhaps it is past time a little newness is accorded to Herath. Three-hundred-and-thirteen wickets in, maybe he deserves to be reimagined.Sure, he has an ample belly, but as he completes a 24th five-wicket haul, it no longer seems an impediment to be overcome but a vast personal store of cricketing fortitude. Since late 2011, he has spun Sri Lanka to victory over South Africa, Pakistan, England, New Zealand, Bangladesh, India, West Indies and now ex-nemesis Australia. In some of these matches, victories came easy. In the majority, Herath has had to massage wins out of the clay, or the air.With the bat, when he was he slap-pulling Mitchell Starc and reverse-paddling Nathan Lyon, to extend Sri Lankas lead, it was easy to see him as a little man with a lot of courage. Still, in a purely spatial sense, thats to be expected isnt it? Which current cricketer could possibly have more guts?And yes, he has the roundest face in the sport, but maybe for him that just builds solidarity with the cricket ball. Which bowler in the world is better-placed to perceive the balls moods, its fancies, its many leathery subtleties? When Adam Voges drove the ball back at him in the morning session, of course Herath was the only man aware that this may be a catch, and not a bump ball. Such are the fruits of a long-term relationship.Taking wickets at the other end is Sri Lankas freshest practitioner of its ancient dark art. Mystery spinner said headlines on Lakshan Sandakan in the Australian press. When he bowled to Steven Smith, who averages 87 this year, 74 in the last, and 82 in the one before that, Smith visibly congratulated himself on the occasions he correctly picked the direction of the turn. He may be the first ever left-arm wristspinner to play for Sri Lanka, but with the wicked dismissal of Joe Burns on day four, he has already bowled a Sri Lankan classic.On day five, Sandakans stock deliveries invoke memories of that most famous Sri Lankan spinner. As he bowls to Steve OKeefe and Peter Nevill, who are basically carcasses with bats, some balls dont just seem to rip back off the adjacent pitch, but seem to be pouncing out of a neighbouring spatial dimension. In the end, a gentler delivery was required to break the stand. 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OMAHA, Neb. -- The College World Series and U.S. swimming trials have coexisted nicely this week.That might not be the case if Omaha hosts the trials again in 2020.The events are being held across the street from each other in downtown Omaha, with the trials at the CenturyLink Center and the CWS at TD Ameritrade Park. Trials races and CWS games went head-to-head Monday and Tuesday and could again on Wednesday.USA Swimming executive director Chuck Wielgus said last week that with the Tokyo Olympics starting July 24, 2020, the trials would start on or about June 14 if the same schedule as this year was used.The 2020 CWS is scheduled to start June 13.The events could cause some issues if held simultaneously, like the demand for hotel rooms with eight CWS teams in town along with swimmers, family and friends. The conflict was minimal this year because only four teams remained in the CWS when trials participants began arriving, and only two teams were left when the trials started.Ron Prettyman, the managing director of championships and alliances for the NCAA, said the organization wants to work with USA Swimming, but there is no wiggle room on dates for the CWS.ddddddddddddIt is not likely in the slightest way that were going to be adjusting our championship, Prettyman said. Its so calculated with regionals and super regionals and when things start and finish. Were the last championship the NCAA has, so we cant go earlier, and we really dont want to go later because were concerned about time demands for student-athletes and so on. These kids are ready to be kids and enjoy their summer, too.I dont know what the flexibility is for swimming. If they could push it back two days, that would be ideal.The trials are being held for the third straight time in Omaha, and city officials have said they want to host the trials again.This years trials are sold out, with more than 14,000 attending each session. When CWS games and trials competition run simultaneously, a combined 35,000 people attend the events in a compact area on the north side of downtown. ' ' '