India vs Sri Lanka Head to Head Stats & Records in Test Cricket

India vs Sri Lanka Head to Head in Test Cricket

India and Sri Lanka have faced each other in 48 Test matches, the first in 1982 and the latest beginning on 23 August 2026. India have won 23 and Sri Lanka 7, with 18 drawn or ended without a result. India lead by 16. The highest innings total India have made against Sri Lanka is 726, against Sri Lanka's best of 952. The lowest completed innings are 112 and 82 respectively. India batters have scored 70 centuries here, Sri Lanka batters 53. For the match-by-match detail, look at the table above. Last updated 9 September, 2026.

This fixture holds the highest team total in the history of Test cricket. At the R Premadasa Stadium in August 1997, Sri Lanka replied to India's 537 for 8 declared with 952 for 6 declared - Sanath Jayasuriya 340, Roshan Mahanama 225, a second-wicket stand of 576 - and the match was drawn with no prospect of a result from the third day onwards. Nothing in Test cricket has come within 50 runs of it since.

The rivalry opened at Chepauk in September 1982 and spent its first two decades producing draws on flat pitches: of the 21 Tests played up to 1999, three produced a result. It has become far more decisive in the modern era, and increasingly one-way - India have won 15 of the 21 played since 2000 and Sri Lanka four.

India's own scoring peak arrived in the same season as Sri Lanka's 760 for 7 declared at Ahmedabad in 2009: 726 for 9 declared at the Brabourne Stadium that December, their highest against Sri Lanka. The most recent meeting, at Bengaluru in March 2022, was a day-night Test India won by 238 runs inside three days.