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England are in Durham for the second Test against Sri Lanka, their first visit to the ground for a Test in three years. England have played five games at the Emirates Riverside, sporting an impressive record with wins in all of them, triumphing by an innings in three.Heres a look at those Chester-le-Street successes... Broad blasts out AussiesWhen Chester-le-Street last hosted an England Test in August 2013, a Stuart Broad-inspired England beat Australia by 74 runs to win the Ashes. Retained the week before with a draw in Manchester with England 2-0 up with two Tests to play, Broad had one of those spells seemingly only he can produce, taking 6-50 in the second innings to skittle the Aussies for 224 when chasing 299 to win. We look back at Englands last Test at Durham, where they beat Australia by 74 runs in the 2013 Ashes It gave Broad match figures of 11-121 after a five-for in the first innings, but the Test didnt all go Englands way. The hosts were bowled out for 238 in the first innings, with Alastair Cooks dogged 51 from 164 balls the only knock of real note. Chris Rogers (110) hit a maiden Test ton for Australia as they earned a slender 32-run first-innings lead, before Ian Bell (113) also hit a hundred to help set the visitors a testing chase, in spite of terrific second-innings figures of 7-117 for Ryan Harris.Australia were cruising to their target though, racing along to 109-0 inside 40 overs. Graeme Swann (2-35) picked up Rogers (49) and Usman Khawaja (21), while Tim Bresnan (2-36) added the key wicket of David Warner (71) before Broad ripped through the rest of the order. Broad took 5-22 in a nine-over third spell - including bowling both Michael Clarke and Steve Smith - as Australia collapsed, losing eight wickets for 56 runs, the last of which was Broads sixth, sealing a memorable win.Bopara hits three in a row Ravi Bopara hits a third hundred in a row for England during the 2009 Durham Test Ravi Bopara, remember him? Absent from Englands Test team for almost four years now, its easy to forget that at one stage he looked set to be a permanent fixture in the side for the next decade, particularly as he scored a third straight hundred for England in this Durham Test against the West Indies in 2009.An England team reeling from 51 all out in defeat to the same West Indies team in Jamaica mere months earlier, recalled Bopara for the fourth Test of that tour in Barbados and he responded with a maiden century, hitting 104. Though he missed the fifth Test, 143 followed in his next outing at Lords, before 108 at Chester-le-Street.Bopara put on 213 with Cook (160) for the second wicket as England amassed 569-6 declared in their first innings, before James Anderson (9-125) took nine wickets in the match to run through the West Indies - who were forced to follow on - in an innings-and-83-run win that secured the series. Bopara would play only seven further Tests for England, with a highest score of 44 not out.Chanderpaul cashes in Shivnarine Chanderpaul kisses the Chester-le-Street surface after hitting a hundred for the West Indies in 2007 The West Indies were the visitors two years earlier in 2007 too. A dead rubber with England already 2-0 up in the series going into the fourth and final Test, the visitors at least showed some fight, particularly Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who hit 136 not out in the first innings and 70 in the second.Despite Chanderpauls ton in the first dig though, England bowled the Windies out relatively cheaply, for 287, with Ryan Sidebottom taking 5-88. Paul Collingwood (128) then cracked a hundred himself as England built a 113-run lead, although Fidel Edwards (5-112) had helped reduce the hosts to 165-6.Chris Gayle hit 52 and Dwayne Bravo 43 in the second innings, but Chanderpaul lacked support elsewhere, with number 11 Corey Collymores 16 not out the next best. Monty Panesar took 5-46 to dismiss the West Indies for 222 - Chanderpaul the last wicket to fall, bowled by the left-arm-spinner - and England chased down their 110-run target with relative ease, winning by seven wickets.Thorpeys 100th Test Graham Thorpe sends a ball to the boundary during his 100th and final Test for England An otherwise unmemorable Test against Bangladesh in 2005 is highly significant, if only for the fact it was Graham Thorpes 100th in a storied England career, and would prove to be his last. England were preparing for the Ashes that summer and much pre-series debate centred around which two of Thorpe, Bell and Kevin Pietersen would make up Englands middle order.As we now know, Pietersen would come in and take the Ashes by storm, but Bells selection was likely due to hitting his maiden Test century - an unbeaten 162 off just 168 balls - against a hapless Bangladesh in Durham. Thorpe himself looked fantastic in his final knock, scoring 66 not out in an unbroken 187-run stand with Bell. Marcus Trescothick had earlier smashed 151 off 148 balls to further add to the tourists misery following their first innings 104 - Steve Harmison taking 5-38 on his home ground.Once England finally declared on 447-3, Bangladesh made a better fist of things in their second effort with the bat, managing 316, with Aftab Ahmed hitting a run-a-ball 82 not out, and skipper Habibul Bashar 63. But Matthew Hoggard (5-73) ran through the lower order, taking the final five wickets as England won by an innings and 27 runs.Johnsons dream debut Richard Johnson celebrates one of his six wickets on debut for England at Durham The 2003 series against Zimbabwe saw the emergence of two new England fast bowlers who tore through the touring Zimbabweans. One has gone on to 443 Test wickets and counting, and the other is Richard Johnson.James Anderson (5-73) had burst onto the scene with a first-innings five-for in the first Test win at Lords, while Johnson went one better on his debut in Durham, taking 6-33 to dismantle Zimbabwe for 94 all out in response to Englands first-innings 418 - Anthony McGrath top-scoring with 81.Johnson couldnt add to his tally as Zimbabwe followed on, but managed nine further wickets in his second Test against Bangladesh later that winter before struggling in his third in Sri Lanka and subsequently being dropped from the side. Anderson again took centre stage in Durham with 4-55 as England dismissed Zimbabwe for 253 and won the first ever Chester-le-Street Test by an innings and 69 runs.Watch live coverage of the second Investec Test between England and Sri Lanka at Emirates Riverside on Sky Sports 2. 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Mesut Ozil Arsenal Jersey .J. -- Josh Cribbs was in the Pro Bowl in February and out of a job six months later. So many of us have done the Saturday relay race: karate to soccer game to basketball practice. From softball to swim team. Baseball practice to a hockey tournament.When my kids were young, the world of sports and activities was their oyster. They played multiple sports, tried on things to see what fit while we drove from one side of town to the other, coordinating calendars, resolving scheduling conflicts and keeping all the local drive-thru fast-food joints in business with to-and-fro dining in the mini-van.A few seasons of soccer, overlapping with the start of CYO basketball, which overlapped with the start of Little League season. Mix in the odd volleyball camp, rec department tennis class and some middle school track and youve got a drawer full of old team pictures, a lot of participation trophies and a whole lot of days on the snack schedule.Then maybe that club coach asked for a larger commitment, or the select team came calling. Maybe the schedule just wasnt working anymore and it was too tough to squeeze in multiple practices and games each week around homework and band or group projects.As many kids got closer to high school, they begin to narrow the field of their sports participation, some by choice and the natural culling process. Others because someone else thinks its best.They begin to specialize. And certainly, there are things to gain from the focus on one sport -- a true offseason, better opportunities against higher levels of competition, perhaps even a shot at being a collegiate athlete. But kids lose by specializing, as well, because there are some very good reasons to stay a multi-sport athlete.1. Fewer overuse injuries. Growing bodies can become overstressed by repetition and that stress can lead to injuries. A lack of rest and recovery time in year-round sports exacerbates the problem. There are plenty of examples of serious, grown-up sports injuries happening to kids at younger and younger ages, from Tommy John surgery for 12-year-olds to high school girls with multiple ACL injuries before they graduate. Studies show that playing multiple sports leads to better muscle, motor and skill development. It promotes general athleticism, balance, speed and agility.2. Less opportunity for emotional burn-out. Kids who spend so much time focusing on one sport -- and whose families are similarly solely focused -- risk tiring of the sport all together. Specializing raises expectations, the costs for parents for travel and club teams and the pressure on young athletes. Having a variety of experiences keeps things interesting, the monotony of a single sport goes away, and so does that pressure.3. Exposure to different kids. Soccer friends will be different from swimming friends, who will be different from the kids in your Tai-Kwon-Do class. Exposing kids to different sports allows them to share teammate experiences and make memories with a diverse group of peers.dddddddddddd. It helps them expand their social circle and their opportunities for interaction.4. Exposure to different roles. Being a bench player on the basketball team is a different experience than being a starting pitcher on the baseball team. Its an opportunity to broaden their experiences, socially and developmentally. Its an opportunity to become a better competitor and all-around athlete, the kind that coaches value because they are flexible, multi-dimensional, exposed to many situations and coachable.5. Not putting all your eggs in one basket. Playing only one sport limits your options. An injury, a bad experience with a coach or a reduced role on a more competitive team can bring an abrupt end to an athletic career. Such a small number of high school athletes move on to play a sport in college; even fewer earn an athletic scholarship. If the goal is to play as long as possible, perhaps it makes the most sense to play as many sports as possible? Just ask Derek Jeter, who played basketball in high school, or Elena Delle Donne, who played volleyball at Delaware before returning to the basketball team on the way to the WNBA, or Robert Griffin III, who played baseball and ran track.My confession here is that my son ended up being a single-sport athlete by the time he got to high school. Baseball was his passion, and the other sports fell off the schedule and the radar. The skateboard that used to be his constant companion in middle school started to gather dust in the garage, and the old basketballs and soccer cleats got donated to charity. He is now a college baseball player, competing at a Division III school.And while focusing on one sport may have played a role in getting him there, I cant imagine, in retrospect, that it was the only path. Ive heard him say that he wished that boys volleyball season wasnt the same as baseball, because he would have played. Ive heard him boast that the 3-point stroke he had on the middle school basketball team magically returned while playing pick-up basketball with some of his buddies. One of his high school friends was the football teams starting quarterback and hes?playing club hockey in college now and loving every minute of it.You just never know how things are going to turn out.I retired the mini-van a few years ago, traded it in for a new car and watched with misty eyes as it was driven off into the depths of the used-car lot. But not before I cleared out some old soccer cones and a least one ball bouncing around in the way back.The old days of the Saturday relay are long gone. I didnt realize at the time how good those days were. They were fun. And isnt that the whole point? ' ' '