India, Aug. 4 -- On August 15, as Indian tricolours are hoisted high all over the country, eleven Indian cricketers will don the famous Test whites in a foreign land.

Nine years on from their most dominant overseas Test victory, the Indian men's cricket team will tour Sri Lanka for two Test matches in Galle and Colombo. Shubman Gill will lead them, a captain who wasn't even part of the squad the last time India toured the island. The only veterans from that 2017 squad are spinners Ravindra Jadeja and Kuldeep Yadav, and vice-captain KL Rahul.

This will be their first match in the World Test Championship in eight months. Their last appearance? A crushing 408-run loss that sealed a 2-0 home defeat to South Africa. A reminder, in case anyon...