| Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Sri Lanka | India | ||
| Dates | 6 August – 1 September 2015 | ||
| Captains | Angelo Mathews | Virat Kohli | |
| Test series | |||
| Result | India won the 3-match series 2–1 | ||
| Most runs | Angelo Mathews (339) | Virat Kohli (333) | |
| Most wickets | Dhammika Prasad (15) | Ravichandran Ashwin (21) | |
| Player of the series | Ravichandran Ashwin (Ind) | ||
The Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 6 August to 1 September 2015 to play a tour match and three Test matches.[1] On 27 June 2015, Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara said he would retire from international cricket after the second Test of the series.[2] The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Sri Lanka Cricket Board confirmed the schedule of India's tour to Sri Lanka in August to September 2015. The tour started with a three-day warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI, followed by three Test matches. The Test matches were played at Galle, P Sara Oval, and SSC Colombo.[3] The Indian team arrived in Sri Lanka on 4 August 2015.[4]
Three different openers for India Shikhar Dhawan (134), Lokesh Rahul (108) and Cheteshwar Pujara (145) made centuries in the series. This was fifth time in Test history. The last happened in 1970 Ashes by John Edrich, Geoff Boycott and Brian Luckhurst for England.[5]
India won the three-match series 2–1, with Virat Kohli winning his first Test series as captain of India, and this was the first series win by India in Sri Lanka since 1993.[6] This series win also gave India their first overseas Test series victory since the 2011 tour in the West Indies.
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- ^ "Indian team arrive for three-Test series". Sri Lanka Cricket. Archived from the original on 5 August 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
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- ^ "Sri Lanka v India: Tourists secure series with victory in Colombo". BBC Sport. Retrieved 1 September 2015.