Padikkal 167 lights up Galle
A maiden Test ton turns into 167, per a live match report, as India pile up 462 in Galle. The BCCI confirmed the tour and his selection; the score and records await an official card.
Padikkal’s reported 167 awaits the official scorecard.
Devdutt Padikkal turned his maiden Test hundred into 167 in India’s first innings at Galle, according to a live match report updated on August 17, 2026. The same report had India 462 all out and Sri Lanka 208/5 on Day 3, trailing by 254.
The BCCI had already named Padikkal in the squad for the two-Test tour, listing the first Test in Galle from August 15–19. The board’s public stats page was not serving a stable scorecard during checking, and Sri Lanka Cricket/ICC had no accessible card in the sources consulted, so the 167 and the stack of “elite club” records attached to it remain claims from that report for now.
For the detail-minded: the innings is listed as 167 off 230 with 15 fours and a six, stumped off Prabath Jayasuriya — again, per the same report. The records cited include being only the fifth Indian with 150-plus in a Test in Sri Lanka, the youngest Indian to 150-plus there, the highest by an Indian No. 3 in Sri Lanka, and the highest away by a left-handed Indian No. 3.
When the official scorecard drops, the numbers will do the talking. Until then, the innings looks every bit the statement India picked him for — which, inconveniently for the Delhi spin cycle, required no committee meeting in Nagpur to approve.