India will resume their bid to qualify for next year’s World Test Championship final when they begin a two-Test series against Sri Lanka in Galle on Saturday. The Shubman Gill-led side will enter the series opener after a warm-up game last week, with a decision still to be made on who partners Mohammed Siraj as…
3 min readUpdated: Aug 15, 2026 08:18 AM IST India and Sri Lanka will resume their 2025-27 World Test Championship bid on Saturday at the Galle International Cricket Stadium in Galle. Touring Sri Lanka for a Test series for the first time since they blanked the hosts 3-0 in 2017, India will also step out…
3 min readAug 15, 2026 07:50 AM IST India will begin their landmark 600th Test match on the country’s 80th Independence Day against Sri Lanka in Galle on Saturday. In their first Test tour of the island nation in nine years, India will become only the third team in history to have recorded 600 Test…
6 min readAug 14, 2026 07:13 PM IST The Galle weather in August is unpredictable. It is usually warm and humid like most parts of Sri Lanka. But in the southern coast with the monsoon winding up, showers can show up impromptu. Just like the weather, the strip at the picturesque venue overlooking the Galle…
6 min readUpdated: Aug 12, 2026 07:07 PM IST For Yashasvi Jaiswal, the first Test against Sri Lanka at Galle, starting on Saturday, will present a familiar challenge in new surroundings. To find the magic formula between attack and defence, when to hold back and when to go full-throttle, a chemistry he has been trying…
2 min readUpdated: Aug 12, 2026 05:32 PM IST Be it Mitchell Santner, Steve O’Keefe or Rangana Herath, Indian batters have historically had trouble against left-arm spinners. In the upcoming tour against Sri Lanka, which starts on Saturday, India will face another such wily left-arm finger spinner in Prabath Jayasuriya, who has already deceived batters…
2 min readUpdated: Aug 12, 2026 02:30 PM IST Sri Lanka on Wednesday named their 15-member squad for the first Test against India, starting Saturday in Galle. Dhananjaya de Silva will lead the side while all-rounder Kamindu Mendis has been named his deputy. Senior batters Kusal Mendis and Pathum Nissanka have been ruled out of…
