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Stats Analysis

Herath joins Mahela and Bravo's second-innings returns

Stats highlights from the fifth day of the second Test between Sri Lanka and West Indies in Colombo, where the hosts registered their first series win in 2015

Shiva Jayaraman
26-Oct-2015
Rangana Herath has won three Man-of-the-Series awards in Tests. Among Sri Lanka players, only Muttiah Muralitharan, Aravinda de Silva and Kumar Sangakkara have won more  •  AFP

Rangana Herath has won three Man-of-the-Series awards in Tests. Among Sri Lanka players, only Muttiah Muralitharan, Aravinda de Silva and Kumar Sangakkara have won more  •  AFP

0 Tests won by West Indies out of the 11 they have played in Sri Lanka. There are only three other instances of a team failing to win a single away Test in ten or more matches in any country. Sri Lanka themselves haven't won a Test in India or Australia from 17 and 11 Tests respectively. Bangladesh have no wins from the ten Tests they have played in Sri Lanka. For West Indies, Sri Lanka remains one of the two countries where they haven't won a Test. They have lost both the Tests they played in the UAE against Pakistan.
3 Number of Sri Lanka players who have won more Man-of-the-Series awards than Rangana Herath, who won his third award in this series, equaling Mahela Jayawardena's tally. Muttiah Muralitharan leads this list with 11 such awards. Kumar Sangakkara and Aravinda de Silva won four each. Herath was the leading wicket-taker in the series with 15 wickets at an average of 16.13.
3 Number of series Sri Lanka had lost between their previous win and this. They had last won 2-0 against Pakistan at home in 2014. After that, they had lost all the three series they had played, 0-2 in New Zealand and 1-2 to both Pakistan and India at home.
2010 The last time - before Milinda Siriwardana in this match - a Sri Lanka player hit at least one fifty and took five or more wickets in a Test. Lasith Malinga had hit 64 in the first innings against India in Galle and had taken seven wickets in the Test. Overall, Siriwardana's was only the ninth such instance.
12 Number of times West Indies have been dismissed for fewer than 200 in 42 Test innings since 2013, the most by any team in Tests during this period. They were dismissed for 163 and 171 in this Test. West Indies' frequency of getting dismissed for fewer than 200 once in every 3.5 innings in this period is better only to Zimbabwe's frequency of once in 2.5 innings.
6 Fifty-plus scores by batsmen in the fourth innings of Tests at the P Sara Oval before Darren Bravo's 61 in this innings. The last time this was achieved here was in 2010, when VVS Laxman and Sachin Tendulkar got 103* and 54 respectively helping India successfully chase a target of 257 set by the hosts.
2005 Last time, before this, a Test in Sri Lanka that ended in a decisive result had two or fewer fifty-plus scores. On that occasion too, West Indies were involved and only one fifty-plus score - a 157 by Sangakkara - was scored. Including this Test, this has happened only six times in Tests in Sri Lanka that have not ended in a draw.
9 Second-innings fifty-plus scores by Darren Bravo including his 61 in this Test. Bravo has made 1422 runs in the second innings at an average of 50.79, which is higher than his first-innings average of 33.82. Among batsmen with at least 1000 runs in both first and second innings, Bravo's difference of 16.97 runs between his second and first innings averages is the fourth highest. Angelo Mathews is third on this list with an average difference of 19.63 between his second (1673 runs at an average of 64.35) and first innings (2236 runs at an average of 44.72).
2005 The last time an overseas top-order (No. 1 to No. 7) averaged worse in a Test series in Sri Lanka than West Indies' in this one. Bangladesh's top-order had averaged just 17.42 in two Tests on that occasion. In another series in 2005, West Indies had also done worse, averaging just 18.44 in two Tests.
60 Runs added by Shai Hope and Darren Bravo for West Indies' second wicket - their highest partnership in the match. Before that, West Indies had added a highest of 39 runs between Marlon Samuels and Kraigg Brathwaite for their fourth wicket in the first innings. However, it was all downhill for West Indies after that stand, being bowled out for 171 with the next eight wickets adding only 91 runs.

Shiva Jayaraman is a senior sub-editor (stats) at ESPNcricinfo.com