Devdutt became only the third Indian to achieve this feat in Galle, leaving behind Padikkal, Pujara, Rahane and Virat Kohli.

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Devdutt Padikkal: Indian team's star batsman Devdutt Padikkal has created history in the first test match against Sri Lanka. The first test match between India and Sri Lanka is being played at the Galle International Stadium from 15th August. In this match, Indian captain Shubman Gill won the toss and decided to bat first. Devdutt Padikkal scored a brilliant century on the very first day of the match. After this, on the second day he played an excellent century inning of 167 runs and made a big record. He has also left Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane and Virat Kohli behind in this matter.

Devdutt Padikkal becomes the third Indian to play the biggest test innings in Galle

Devdutt Padikkal has made a big record in his name by playing an inning of 167 runs in the Galle Test against Sri Lanka. Padikkal has now become only the third Indian batsman to score the most runs in a Test innings at the Galle International Stadium. Now ahead of him are Virender Sehwag and Shikhar Dhawan. Let us tell you that this is also the first test century of Padikkal. Sehwag had scored a double century at Galle ground in 2008. He played an unbeaten inning of 201 runs. Whereas Shikhar Dhawan had scored 190 runs in 2017.

Devdutt Padikkal left Kohli, Rahane and Pujara behind

Now if we look at the list of players who scored the most runs in a Test innings of Galle, Cheteshwar Pujara is at fourth place, who played an inning of 153 runs in 2017. Whereas Shikhar Dhawan had scored 134 runs in 2015. Whereas Ajinkya Rahane had played an inning of 126 runs in the year 2015 itself. Whereas in 2017, Virat Kohli had scored 3 runs in one innings and 103 unbeaten runs in the second innings. Let us tell you that Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan are the only Indians who have scored 2 centuries each at the Galle International Stadium. However, now Padikkal has gone ahead of Kohli, Rahane and Pujara in terms of playing the biggest innings.

Highest score in a Test innings by Indian batsmen in Galle

batsman Run Year
Virender Sehwag 201* 2008
Shikhar Dhawan 190 2017
Devdutt Padikkal 167 2026
Cheteshwar Pujara 153 2017
Shikhar Dhawan 134 2015
Ajinkya Rahane 126 2015
Virat Kohli 103* 2017
Virat Kohli 103 2015

India in strong position on the strength of Devdutt Padikkal's innings

By the end of the second day of the Galle Test, Team India had scored 460 runs for 9 wickets. Team India seems to be in a strong position on the basis of Padikkal's inning of 167 runs. Padikkal has made a lot of noise with the bat in the last 12 months. First he is leaving his mark in domestic cricket, IPL and now international cricket. Runs are raining from his bat everywhere. Before the start of the Test series against Sri Lanka, the Indian team played a warm-up match. In this match too, Padikkal had scored a century, after which the fans and the team were hopeful that a big innings would come from his bat and he could prove to be the X factor for the team. In this match, Padikkal scored 167 runs facing 230 balls, in which he hit 15 fours and 1 six.

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