Suthar’s 10 for 131 wins Galle, and no India bowler has taken 10 in Sri Lanka for less
India beat Sri Lanka by 165 runs on the final day at Galle to go 1-0 up with one Test to play. Manav Suthar, playing his second Test, took six on the last day.
Aug 19, 2026
Sri Lanka started the last day at Galle needing 288 more with six wickets standing, which was never going to happen, so the only question was how long they could make India work. They lasted into the second session. India won the first Test by 165 runs, and the bowler who finished it off was playing the second Test of his life.
Three in one over, and the game was gone
Manav Suthar had two wickets when the 76th over began. He got Sonal Dinusha caught by Jurel, bowled Prabath Jayasuriya first ball, and had Lahiru Kumara caught, all in the same over, all without conceding a run. Two overs later he bowled Keshara Nuwantha for 20 and Sri Lanka were 206 all out.
That gave Suthar 6 for 55 in the innings. He had taken 4 for 76 in the first, so his match figures were 10 for 131, and no India bowler has taken 10 in a Test in Sri Lanka for fewer runs. Harbhajan Singh’s 10 for 153 came at this ground in 2008, Ravichandran Ashwin’s 10 for 160 at the same ground in 2015. Both of them had years of Test cricket behind them by that point. Suthar is 24, and his India cap is ten weeks old. He took six wickets on debut against Afghanistan at Mullanpur in June.
The resistance came from the two who had already batted well
Chasing 372, Sri Lanka were 84 for 4 overnight, and the two men who kept India waiting were their captain and the batter who had made a hundred earlier in the match. Dhananjaya de Silva ground out 59 from 151 balls before Ravindra Jadeja got him. Dinusha, whose maiden Test century in the first innings still left Sri Lanka 178 behind, made 84 from 128 in the second.
India did not need much help from anyone other than Suthar. Prasidh Krishna took 2 for 16, Mohammed Siraj 1 for 15, Jadeja 1 for 71 across 23 overs of holding an end.
Padikkal’s 167 is what made the target unreachable
India’s first innings of 462 was built on Devdutt Padikkal’s 167, and the 178-run lead it produced is the reason a second-innings collapse to 193 cost them nothing. Rishabh Pant’s 66 from 69 balls in that second innings turned a target Sri Lanka might have fancied into one they never got near.
India lead the series 1-0 with one to play, and the second Test starts at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo on 23 August. The points are worth as much as the result. This is a World Test Championship series, and away wins in Asia are how India’s cycle gets decided.