India, Aug. 13 -- Yashasvi Jaiswal has scored heavily enough in Test cricket to have earned certainty, yet something about his record remains unconvincing.

There is always another question attached to his name, another selection puzzle, another version of Indian cricket in which his place must be justified. His Test career has been remarkably productive, but it has unfolded in an environment where every return to the crease can feel like another audition. Sri Lanka, however, presents a different examination.

This isn't Australia, where Jaiswal discovered how much punishment an opener must absorb before the rewards arrive. It isn't England, where he had to contend with movement, unfamiliar conditions and the peculiar pressure of an Engli...