Sri Lanka all-rounder Sonal Dinusha completed his second Test hundred on Day 4 of 2nd Test at Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) ground in Colombo on Wednesday.
Updated: August 26, 2026, 10:16 AM IST
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Sri Lanka’s Sonal Dinusha en route to scoring his second hundred on Day 4 of 2nd Test vs India in Colombo(Photo: IANS)
India vs Sri Lanka 2026 2nd Test: Sri Lanka all-rounder Sonal Dinusha continued his golden form with the bat against India in the two-match Test seriesDinusha completed his second hundred in successive Tests against Team India and equaled a world record on Day 4 of the 2nd Test at the Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) ground in Colombo on Wednesday.
The 25-year-old left-handed batter completed his second Test ton off 146 balls with three sixes and 8 fours, bringing up his century with a boundary off pacer Prasidh KrishnaThe home team need to reach the 304-run mark to avoid following-on in the second Test and Dinusha’s century went a long way towards achieving this feat.
Dinusha became only the 8th batter ever to score two hundreds in his first two Tests against IndiaOther batters to achieve this feat are former West Indies batter Everton Weekes (1948), West Indies legendary all-rounder Gary Sobers (1958), former Pakistan batter Zaheer Abbas (1978), former Sri Lanka captain Duleep Mendis (1982), former England batter Robin Smith (1990), former South Africa opener Gary Kirsten (1996) and former New Zealand all-rounder Jesse Ryder (2009).
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