Excited about the Galle Tests: Joe Root-led England arrive in Sri Lanka to resume cancelled tour During the quarantine period, the England squad will split into two teams in order to play a practice match, an SLC official said. England's cricketers arriving in Sri Lanka on Sunday | AFP England’s cricketers arrived in Sri Lanka on Sunday to resume a Test tour cancelled in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, in what officials hope will be a “massive boost” for match-starved cricket fans. A British Airways charter flight carrying the players and support staff landed in Mattala, in the south of the Indian Ocean island, where they underwent antigen tests.