India, Feb. 10 -- India's invincibility at home in Test cricket was ended in spectacular manner by New Zealand of all sides last year. Legendary former Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga has now said that his 1996 side, which won the World Cup that year which was hosted in his country, India and Pakistan, would've beaten Rohit Sharma's current side in a Test match at the latter's home.

"With bowlers like (Chaminda) Vaas and Murali (Muttiah Muralidaran), that team of mine would have beaten India in India in three days," he is quoted as saying by the Telegraph. Apart from Ranatunga himself, the Sri Lankan side of 1996 that stunned the world by winning the World Cup consisted legendary names like Muttiah Muralitharan, Chaminda Vaas, Aravind...