Manav Suthar’s 10/131 powers India to 165-run win in Galle
Manav Suthar took 10 wickets as India beat Sri Lanka by 165 runs in the first Test at the Galle International Stadium during India’s tour of Sri Lanka 2026. The performance came in India’s 600th Test and produced match figures of 10/131 in Suthar’s second appearance for the national side.
India posted 462 in their first innings and 193 in the second as a collective batting and bowling effort secured the victory. Devdutt Padikkal was named player of the match after scoring 167, a total noted in the report as two runs more than India’s winning margin.
Suthar claimed four wickets in Sri Lanka’s first innings and finished the contest with 6/55 in the second innings, recording a maiden 10-wicket match haul within his first two Tests for India. That accomplishment made him the fourth Indian bowler to register a maiden 10-wicket haul inside the first two Test appearances of his career, according to the source.
His 10/131 was recorded as the best match figures by any visiting Indian bowler on Sri Lankan soil, surpassing the previous marks of Harbhajan Singh (10/153) and Ravichandran Ashwin (10/160). The source credits Suthar with overtaking those two former records.
At 24 years and 16 days, Suthar became the youngest Indian spinner to reach a 10-wicket match haul, per the article. The report also states he joined an elite list of Indian bowlers with a 10-wicket haul on Sri Lankan soil, with Harbhajan Singh and Ravichandran Ashwin named as the two former Indians to have achieved the feat, placing Suthar third on that list.
The piece additionally mentions that, alongside Manav Suthar, Ravichandran Ashwin and Harbhajan Singh, former Indian spinner Anil Kumble is the fourth Indian bowler with a 10-wicket haul against Sri Lanka. It also records Suthar’s international debut earlier this year against Afghanistan, where he returned figures of 6/33 in the first innings.
According to the article, Suthar’s back-to-back six-wicket hauls in his first two Tests make him only the second Indian after Narendra Hirwani to claim a six-wicket haul in each of his opening two Test appearances, and it notes that Narendra Hirwani, Laxman Sivaramakrishnan and Axar Patel reached the same milestone within their second Test appearances for India. The story is authored by Subhomoy Datta, who the piece says has been a sports writer since 2022 and holds a BSc in Microbiology from Rastraguru Surendranath College, WBSU, while currently pursuing a master’s at NIT Surathkal.
