Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh 2025 Test series: Galle International Stadium pitch history and Test records
Galle International Stadium will play host to the first match of the new ICC World Test Championship cycle. Sri Lanka will lock horns with Bangladesh in the first match of their two-match series, starting on Tuesday, June 17.
Bangladesh and Sri Lanka failed to qualify for the WTC Finals in each of the previous three editions of the mega event. Both teams will be keen to start the new cycle with a victory and build momentum to make it to their first-ever WTC Final.
Before Najmul Hossain Shanto and Dhanajaya de Silva come out for the toss in Galle, here's a look at the venue's pitch history and Test records.
Galle International Stadium Test records
Galle has hosted 48 Test matches so far, with Sri Lanka participating in all of them. The home team has a decent 27-15 win-loss record at this venue. The other six Test matches ended in a draw.
Here are some crucial stats to know from the previous Test matches hosted by the stadium in Galle:
Test matches played: 48
Won by teams batting first: 26
Won by teams batting second: 16
Drawn: 6
Highest individual score: 333 - Chris Gayle (WI) vs Sri Lanka, 2010
Best bowling figures (innings): 7/46 - Muttiah Muralitharan (SL) vs England, 2003
Best bowling figures (match): 13/171 - Muttiah Muralitharan (SL) vs South Africa, 2000
Highest team total: 704/3 dec - Sri Lanka vs Ireland, 2023
Lowest team total: 73 - South Africa vs Sri Lanka, 2018
Highest successful run-chase: 344/6 - Pakistan vs Sri Lanka, 2022
Average first innings score: 373.
Galle International Stadium Pitch report
The pitch report will be live from Galle before the two skippers walk out for the toss in blazers at the stadium. It is quite difficult to predict how the surface at this venue will play.
In the last seven years, a team has scored 704/3, a team has lost all its wickets for 73, and a team has chased down a 300+ score in Tests on this ground. Overall, it has been a batter-friendly surface.
Galle International Stadium Last Test match
Australia defeated Sri Lanka by nine wickets in the last Test hosted by the iconic Galle International Stadium. Half-centuries from Kusal Mendis and Dinesh Chandimal guided Sri Lanka to 257 in the first innings. In response, Australia posted 414 on the board, thanks to a hundred each from Steve Smith and Alex Carey.
Mendis scored another half-century for the home team in the second innings, but Sri Lanka could only set a target of 75 runs for the visitors. Usman Khawaja and Marnus Labuschagne completed the formalities as Australia won by nine wickets.
Brief scores: Australia 414 (Alex Carey 156, Prabath Jayasuriya 5/151) & 75/1 (Usman Khawaja 27*, Prabath Jayasuriya 1/20) beat Sri Lanka 257 (Kusal Mendis 85*, Mitchell Starc 3/37) & 231 (Angelo Mathews 76, Matthew Kuhnemann 4/63) by 9 wickets.