Galle

13 articles tagged with "Galle"

Aug 15, 2026

India reach 600 Tests with 186 wins and 188 defeats, at a ground that was rubble in 2005

India became the third country after England and Australia to play 600 Tests when they walked out at Galle on Independence Day. It is also Galle’s 50t...

Aug 13, 2026

India’s No. 3 at Galle: Padikkal should play, and not for the reason everyone says

Sai Sudharsan’s toe has left India choosing between Devdutt Padikkal and Sarfaraz Khan at first drop in Galle. The case for the left-hander is tactica...

Aug 11, 2026

India are fifth in the WTC, and winning both Tests in Sri Lanka only takes them to 57 per cent

India go to Galle on 48.15 per cent, below the 50 that already missed a final once. Nine Tests remain in the cycle, and the arithmetic says a 2-0 in S...

Aug 8, 2026

Sri Lanka are giving away the India Tests, and the Lanka Premier League is why

Free entry at Galle and the SSC covers the grass banks, not the stands. For the biggest series on the home calendar, that is a decision worth reading...

Aug 7, 2026

Sri Lanka’s second string made 363 at the NCC, and Manav Suthar was India’s best bowler

Eight days before the first Test at Galle, India’s attack spent 90 overs in the field at the Nondescripts and got one wicket out of its seamers.

Aug 7, 2026

Gill was hit twice in Thursday’s session, and KL Rahul led India’s warm-up instead

Shubman Gill took two blows to his right hand at practice in Colombo on Thursday and was held out of day one of India’s only warm-up before the Sri La...

Aug 4, 2026

India arrive in Colombo with seven spinners, and their openers spent the week facing Mumbai’s

Four specialist spinners in the squad, three more travelling as net bowlers, and a week of spin-focused batting in Bandra for KL Rahul and Yashasvi Ja...

Aug 3, 2026

Sudharsan is batting again in Bengaluru, and India’s Colombo warm-up loses a day

India fly to Colombo on 4 August with their No. 3 still waiting on a fitness clearance, and with one day less of warm-up cricket than they had planned...

Aug 2, 2026

Bumrah is out of the Sri Lanka Tests, two days after clearing his fitness tests

India’s medical staff have told Jasprit Bumrah not to rush the left knee he has been managing since the T20 World Cup, and he will not travel for the...

Jul 31, 2026

India’s record in Sri Lanka says one thing, the last 20 months say another

India have not lost a Test series in Sri Lanka since 2008 and have won their last five Tests on the island. After two home whitewashes and a nine-year...

Jul 29, 2026

Subhadeep Ghosh replaces T Dilip as India’s fielding coach before the Sri Lanka Tests

India dropped five catches in a single T20I in Harare this week. The man hired to fix that is a 57-year-old from Digboi with 17 first-class games behi...

Jul 28, 2026

Jadeja returns and Saransh Jain earns a first call-up in India’s Sri Lanka Test squad

India’s 15 for the two Tests in Sri Lanka has Ravindra Jadeja back from a tennis elbow and a maiden call-up for 33-year-old off-spinner Saransh Jain,...

Jul 20, 2026

India’s road back to the World Test Championship final runs through Sri Lanka

India begin their World Test Championship run-in with two Tests in Sri Lanka next month, and fifth place in the table means Galle and Colombo already...