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When Raina rained heavily in the debut test match against Sri Lanka, he created history in the very first innings; Tendulkar also scored a double century

Samira Vishwas | August 15, 2026 11:24 AM CST

Sri Lanka vs India Test: The two-match Test series between India and Sri Lanka is going to start from August 15. This series is considered very important from the point of view of the World Test Championship. It is very important for India to register victory in these two test matches. However, whenever these two teams have clashed, people have seen a lot of excitement. Today we are going to tell you an interesting story of one such test match, which Suresh Raina Had created history. He became the first batsman from India to score centuries in all three formats i.e. Test, ODI and T-20.

We are talking about the first innings of Suresh Raina’s debut test match, which was played on 29 July 2010 at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground in Colombo… In this match against Sri Lanka, Raina played such an innings, which surprised the cricket pundits.

How many runs did Raina score?

In this test match against Sri Lanka, Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag gave a strong start to India. Both of them laid the foundation of victory, on which Raina later built the building. In this match he scored 120 runs scoring a brilliant century. In this way, he became the 12th Indian batsman to score a century in his debut Test match.

256 run partnership with Tendulkar

In this match, Raina made a historic partnership of 256 runs with Sachin Tendulkar for the fifth wicket. Sachin had scored 203 runs, while Sehwag scored 99 runs. This test match was played from 26th July to 30th July.

Talking about the match, Sri Lanka declared its first innings by scoring 642 runs for 4 wickets. Kumar Sangakkara scored 219, Mahela Jayawardene scored 174, Tharanga Paranavitana scored 100, Tillakaratne Dilshan scored 54 and Thilan Samaraweera scored 76 not out.

India gave a befitting reply

India also gave a befitting reply to Sri Lanka by scoring 707 runs in the first innings and taking a lead of 65 runs. For India, Murali Vijay scored 58, Sehwag scored 99 and captain MS Dhoni scored 76 runs. Sri Lanka declared its second innings at 129 runs for 3 wickets. Due to this the match became a draw.