India, Aug. 28 -- Sonal Dinusha is not a name the Indian team will forget in a hurry. He was why they left the Sri Lankan shores deflated despite the series win. The southpaw's crouched stance, long reach and faultless sweeps will linger in memory.

For India, it wasn't just Dinusha's persistent presence at the crease - he spent 1139 minutes, faced 722 balls, scored 420 runs with 3 tons - but his methods that would have left them with a sense of deja vu. The left-hander scored 173 runs playing sweeps (conventional and reverse) without being dismissed. That's the most by anyone in the DRS era, surpassing the 164 runs Joe Root scored in England's 2021 Sri Lanka tour.

Indian cricket needs no reminding that strong players of the sweep shot h...