Stats Analysis

Ashwin 3-0 Sangakkara

Stats highlights from the second day of the second Test between Sri Lanka and India in Colombo

Rangana Herath has taken 11 wickets in this series at an average of 17.81  AFP

1.6 Angelo Mathews' economy in India's innings; he conceded just 24 runs off his 15 overs and bowled seven maidens. Mathews' economy of 2.13 in Tests in 2015 is the second-best among bowlers to bowl at least 50 overs.

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17.81 Rangana Herath's bowling average in this series; he has now taken 11 wickets, including the four he took in India's first innings. In four Tests against India before this series, Herath had taken 12 wickets at an average of 54.91.

6.66 Kumar Sangakkara's batting average against R Ashwin in Tests. He has been dismissed three times in this series and has managed to score just 20 runs off 53 balls. Against other offspinners in Tests though, Sangakkara has an excellent batting average of 78.09 (since May 2001).

113 Balls Sri Lanka went boundary-less between the 30th and the 49th overs. India bowled disciplined lines, allowing Sri Lanka to take only 18 singles in this period. The batsmen played 92 dots and scored only 32 runs at 1.69 runs an over.

5 Maidens bowled by Umesh Yadav in this innings - the most in his Test career. In his first two spells, Yadav had conceded just 18 runs from seven overs before ending the day with figures of 1 for 34 from 11 overs. In his previous four Tests, he had leaked runs at an economy of 4.68.

15 Number of balls off which Yadav induced false stroke from the 11 overs he bowled at the Sri Lanka batsmen in this innings. The percentage of false strokes played off Yadav's bowling is the highest among the fast bowlers in this Test so far.

False strokes off fast bowlers in this Test
Bowler Balls bowled False strokes induced % False strokes
 Umesh Yadav  66  15  22.72
 Angelo Mathews  90  15  16.66
 Stuart Binny  67  11  16.41
 Dhammika Prasad  144  21  14.58
 Dushmantha Chameera  122  13  10.65
 Ishant Sharma  63  5  7.93

214 Runs scored in the day - the second lowest on the second day in 12 Tests at P Sara Oval since 2000. However, only 80.3 overs were bowled in the day. Only 191 runs were scored on the second day of a Test between the hosts and England at this venue.

11 Number of innings since the last time Sri Lanka's openers put up a fifty stand in Tests. Sri Lanka's first wicket has made 247 runs at an average of 22.45, including a highest stand of 49 runs in those 11 innings.

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