Aug 21, 2026
Pujara’s advice to Manav Suthar: play the IPL, just don’t bowl like it
Cheteshwar Pujara has asked India to preserve Manav Suthar for Test cricket after the 24-year-old’s ten-wicket haul in Galle. His concern is not the I...
Galle Test
15 articles tagged with "Galle Test"
Aug 20, 2026
India’s Galle win took them to 53.33 per cent, and Bangladesh are still above them
India beat Sri Lanka by 165 runs to climb to 53.33 per cent in the World Test Championship, and it was not enough to move them off fifth place.
Aug 19, 2026
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...
Aug 18, 2026
Pant reached 100 Test sixes faster than anyone has, and India set Sri Lanka 372
Rishabh Pant got to 100 sixes in Tests in his 89th innings, 41 fewer than Adam Gilchrist needed. India were bowled out for 193, and Sri Lanka lost Din...
Aug 17, 2026
Sri Lanka were 90 for 5 at Galle, and Dinusha’s maiden hundred still left them 178 behind
India took all five wickets to fall in the morning session at Galle, then spent the rest of the third day watching a 25-year-old make his first Test c...
Aug 16, 2026
India lose seven for 172 after Padikkal’s 167, and Galle has produced 116 overs in two days
India closed day two at Galle on 460 for 9, having lost seven wickets for 172 runs in the only session and a half the weather allowed. Devdutt Padikka...
Aug 15, 2026
Padikkal’s first Test hundred is India’s first at No. 3 by a left-hander since Ganguly
Devdutt Padikkal reached three figures off 134 balls in Galle after Yashasvi Jaiswal was run out in a tangle with the bowler and KL Rahul retired hurt...
Aug 14, 2026
Gambhir has two ICC trophies and ten defeats in nineteen Tests, and Galle is about the second number
India start in Galle on Saturday with a coach whose white-ball record is close to flawless and whose Test record is not. Both are true. Only one of th...
Aug 14, 2026
India lost the spinner who bats, and the answer at Galle should be a 33-year-old debutant
Washington Sundar’s hamstring has left India a bowler short in the wrong department, and the argument before Saturday’s first Test is not about the ba...
Aug 12, 2026
Sri Lanka pick four quicks for Galle, and Dickwella returns after three years
Sri Lanka’s 16 for the first Test against India carries four specialist fast bowlers, three front-line spinners and a recalled Niroshan Dickwella behi...
Aug 11, 2026
Sri Lanka lose Kusal Mendis for both Tests and Nissanka for Galle, four days before India start
Sri Lanka’s two most established top-order batters will not be in the side that meets India on Saturday. One is out of the series entirely, and the ot...
Aug 10, 2026
Sarfaraz Khan replaces Sudharsan for the Sri Lanka Tests, 21 months after his last one
Sai Sudharsan’s toe has not cleared in time for Galle, and India have turned to a batter who last played a Test in November 2024. Sarfaraz Khan joins...
Aug 9, 2026
India built a fake day-four Galle pitch in Colombo, then let schoolboys bowl on it
India’s coaching staff found a patch of uncurated turf at the NCC in Colombo, measured 22 yards across it and sent schoolboy spinners at their top ord...
Aug 8, 2026
Sudharsan’s toe rules him out of Galle, and Padikkal’s 142 lands the same afternoon
India lost their No. 3 to a toe stress fracture and found a replacement in the same day’s play in Colombo.
Aug 4, 2026
Jadeja needs two wickets in Galle to join a three-man club, and he would get there fastest
Only Botham, Vettori and Kapil Dev have made 4,000 Test runs and taken 350 Test wickets. Jadeja is two wickets away, and he is 13 Tests quicker than t...