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A confident Sri Lankan cricket team arrived on Monday (12th May) for its tour of England with captain Angelo Mathews dispelling concerns former coach Paul Farbrace will give the hosts an edge.

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SOUNDBITE: (English) Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lanka interim coach (On the state of the team):

"The confidence levels are very high. I reckon this team comes with a lot of confidence with so much success, not only in the Twenty20 format, but playing against Pakistan in Pakistan in Test match cricket. A few new faces will take the field in Twenty20, but as Angelo said, trying to excel in all three formats during this tour, try and combat the conditions, get used to it and hopefully at the end of tour we can look back and say we've had a good tour."