Like Father, Like Son: For Stuart Binny, History Repeats Itself After 30 Years

History has repeated itself after 30 years for the Binnys. World Cup winner Roger Binny was selected as an additional cricketer for the tour of Sri Lanka in 1985 after the first Test. The all-rounder played the second Test at Kandy.

Thirty years later - on August 16, 2015 - son Stuart Binny has being drafted in as an additional cricketer for the tour of Sri Lanka. And, believe it or not, exactly after the first Test!

Interestingly, the initials of the captains of India on 1985 and 2015 tours start with the letter "K". On 1985 tour, Kapil Dev was skipper. Kohli is in the hotseat now.

India lost the first Test at Galle by 63 runs. Sri Lanka's stunning come-from-behind win upset all calculations as the home team took a 1-0 lead in the three-Test series, Kohli's first as Team India's full-time captain.

Rangana Herath picked up seven wickets in a sublime display of left-arm spin bowling to power Sri Lanka to a spectacular comeback win on the fourth day of the opening Test on Saturday.

Trailing for most of the match after being all out on the opening day for 183, the hosts scythed through the Indian order with 37-year-old Herath adding six wickets to his overnight dismissal of opening batsman Lokesh Rahul for his 22nd five-wicket haul in Tests.

Sri Lanka looked dead and buried on 95-5 on Friday after conceding a first-innings lead of 192 but Dinesh Chandimal's swashbuckling unbeaten 162 allowed them to stage a fightback and set India a victory target of 176.

Stuart Binny is expected to play the second Test at the Oval in Colombo, starting August 20. He could bat at No. 6 and be the fifth bowling option. Stuart Binny has played three Tests, all on India's tour to England in mid-2014. Wicketless in these games, Stuart Binny scored a handy 78 in his debut Test to help India draw at Nottingham.

(With inputs from HR Gopala Krishna)