India vs Sri Lanka

32 articles tagged with "India vs Sri Lanka"

Sep 12, 2026

Siraj had never taken two months off in ten years, and his run-up came apart in Sri Lanka

India’s fast bowler has given an unusually specific explanation for the pace he lost in Galle and Colombo: strides that stopped matching each other. H...

Aug 27, 2026

Dinusha batted seven hours for 133 not out, and India settled for a 1-0 series win

Sri Lanka began the last day 16 in front with four wickets standing. They batted through all of it, declared, and the Colombo Test was drawn.

Aug 26, 2026

Sooriyabandara was out with Sri Lanka one run behind, and they lead by 16 going into the final day

Pasindu Sooriyabandara was stumped for 92 with Sri Lanka still a run short of making India bat again. Four wickets stand between India and a 2-0 serie...

Aug 26, 2026

Dinusha has made 100, 84 and 103 against India, and Sri Lanka are following on anyway

Three innings against India, three scores of 80 or more, and a place on a list that already had Sobers and Weekes on it. Sri Lanka’s problem is what h...

Aug 25, 2026

Sri Lanka lost two wickets in three overs, and the umpires stopped play for bad light one ball later

India declared on 503 and had Sri Lanka two down inside three overs at the Sinhalese Sports Club. Play was then stopped for bad light, one delivery af...

Aug 24, 2026

Jaiswal and Asitha touched heads in Colombo, and both lost a quarter of their match fee

A two-second flashpoint after Jaiswal was bowled on the opening morning has cost both players a slice of their pay and a mark on their disciplinary re...

Aug 24, 2026

Jurel waited out the rain on 95, and finished 115 not out as India declared on 503

Rain stopped Dhruv Jurel five short of a century in Colombo. He completed it after the break, and India’s first innings closed on 503 for 9 with him n...

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...

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 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 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 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 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

Laxman says there was no miscommunication, and the CoE has had no head of sports science for 18 months

India go to Galle without Bumrah, Sudharsan and Washington Sundar, and VVS Laxman has laid out exactly how the fitness reports move between the Centre...

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 4, 2026

The BCCI will review how India manage injuries once the Sri Lanka Tests are done

India’s selectors picked Jasprit Bumrah for the Sri Lanka Tests expecting him to be fit. He is not, and the board has lined up a formal review of how...

Aug 2, 2026

Four Duleep Trophy squads are in, and the quarter-finals run into India’s Colombo Test

South Zone made Tilak Varma captain this weekend, leaving North and North East as the only zones yet to name a side. The opening quarter-finals sit on...

Jul 29, 2026

McGrath is right about Prasidh, but his Test and ODI records tell different stories

Glenn McGrath has backed Prasidh Krishna to fill the gap left by Mohammed Shami and cover for Jasprit Bumrah. The one-day numbers already agree with h...

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...

Jan 13, 2020

That’s odd: Action from India, South Africa and Zimbabwe this week

Australia, India, South Africa, England, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka on the field this week in cricket.

Jan 10, 2020

IND vs SL, 3rd T20I: Sanju’s tribute, Saini’s yorker and other talking points

India routed Sri Lanka at Pune to win 2-0 and we have some exciting talking points from the one-sided affair on Friday.

Jan 10, 2020

Is Jasprit Bumrah really a threat to Sri Lanka?

Bumrah might be a top-class T20 bowler but he has largely been unsuccessful against Sri Lanka in the format.

Jan 8, 2020

IND v SL, 2nd T20I: Iyer’s blitz, Saini’s spell and other talking points

KL Rahul narrowly edged out Shikhar Dhawan in this T20 International.