India, Feb. 11 -- Sri Lankan cricket legend and world-winning skipper Arjuna Ranatunga has said his 1996 squad could have defeated Rohit Sharma's Test team in a Test match on Indian soil in just three days.

Speaking to The Telegraph, Arjuna Ranatunga, who guided Sri Lanka to clinch the 1996 World Cup by defeating Australia, said: "With bowlers like (Chaminda) Vaas and Murali (Muttiah Muralidaran), that team of mine would have beaten India in India in three days."

New Zealand showed the Indian Test squad's vulnerability on the home soil by beating Sharma's men last year.

India's poor show in the longest format continued after Australia beat the T20 World Cup champions on their soil to reclaim the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Following two b...