August (14-17) 2001, Galle
After a period of almost 50 years, India again played a Test match which involved the Independence day. This time, Sourav Ganguly led India was in Galle and again, the visitors did not have a favourable outing.
In the first innings, India was bundled out on a score of 187 to which Sri Lanka replied with 362. Already trailing by a margin of 150+, team India could just manage 180 runs in the third innings and Sri Lanka cruised to an easy win by scoring those six runs.