Silva's long-awaited ton and the sixth-wicket high

298 Most runs added by the sixth wicket in a Test against Australia, by India at Wankhede Stadium in 1986-87, before Tuesday. At the SSC, Sri Lanka's sixth wicket aggregated 301 runs - 211 in the first innings and 90 in the second. For India, the sixth wicket had added unbroken 298 runs in the only Indian innings in that Mumbai Test.

8 Fifty-plus partnerships for wickets five and lower for Sri Lanka in this series - their joint-most in any Test series. They had eight such stands in India in 2009-10 and in UAE in 2013-14. There have been only two such partnerships from their first four wickets in this series.

18 Runs scored by Kaushal Silva in his first five innings of this series, before making 115 in the second innings of this match. He was out for single-digit scores in all those innings and his highest score was just 7. He became the ninth Sri Lanka batsman to score a duck and a century in the same Test.

3 Sri Lanka batsmen who made centuries in their maiden Test innings at No. 3. This was the first time Silva batted at No. 3 in Tests, and scored 115. The two other Sri Lanka batsmen to do so are Roshan Mahanama (225 in 1997) and Thilan Samaraweera (142 in 2003-04).

2 Occasions of three centuries by Sri Lanka batsmen in a Test against Australia - both at the SSC in Colombo. Before this match, they had three centuries in the same innings in the 1992 Test which they lost by 16 runs.

1 Targets of 300 or more successfully chased by visiting teams in Sri lanka - 377 by Pakistan in Pallekele in 2015. Sri Lanka already lead by 288 at the end of the fourth day and the highest successful chase against Sri Lanka at the SSC is 131 by Pakistan in 2000.

4 Sri Lanka players who have made centuries in this series - most for them in a series against Australia. Kusal Mendis, Dhananjaya de Silva, Dinesh Chandimal and Silva have done it in this series.

155 Previous highest match aggregate by a Sri Lanka batsman at No. 7 or lower in a Test, by Chamara Kapugedara against Bangladesh in Chittagong in 2008-09. De Silva has already made 173 runs in this Test - 129 at No. 7 in the first innings and an unbeaten 44 at No. 8 in the second.

0 Instances of a Sri Lanka batsman at No. 6 or lower making 150-plus runs in a Test against Australia, before this match. But two Sri Lanka players have done it in this match - Chandimal (175) and Dhananjaya (173).

24 Wickets for Mitchell Starc in this series - most by a non-Asia fast bowler in a Test series of three or fewer matches in Asia. He beat Richard Hadlee's tally of 23 wickets which also came in Sri Lanka, in 1983-84. The most wickets by any non-Asian bowler in a series of three or fewer matches in Asia is 27 by Shane Warne - against Pakistan in 2003-04.

233 Runs conceded by Nathan Lyon in this Test, already the second-most by a non-Asia bowler in a Test in Sri Lanka. Nicky Boje had conceded 236 runs in Galle in 2004.