India, July 28 -- As India head to Sri Lanka for the two-Test series in August with renewed hope to keep the World Test Championship dream alive, the squad will include a domestic journeyman with an opportunity to fulfil a lifelong dream of his and his cricketer father.

If he gets to play, Saransh Jain, 33, will become India's oldest Test debutant after Robin Singh, who made his debut in 1998 aged 35. In his time, Subodh too was an off-spinner for Madhya Pradesh. Now, as a cancer survivor, he would relish the emotional ride of watching his son play for India.

Picking Saransh as a replacement for Washington Sundar - he is ruled out of the first Test with a hamstring injury - is a departure from convention for Ajit Agarkar's selection com...