57.40 Kumar Sangakkara's batting average, the
fifth best among batsmen with at least 5000 runs. Sangakkara made 12400 runs including 38 hundreds and 52 fifties in the 134 Tests he played. He finished with 6830 runs in Sri Lanka, the
second most by any batsman behind Mahela Jayawardene.
4 Test hundreds by Ajinkya Rahane, all of which have come away from home. His only match at home was his debut Test, at the Feroz Shah Kotla. Among India batsmen only two had hit more away centuries before their first one at home: Sunil Gavaskar had hit eight and Rahul Dravid five. Sachin Tendulkar too had four away hundreds before his first century at home. Rahane has made 1341 runs at an average of 46.24.
3 Number of different batting positions Rahane has made Test hundreds from. He has batted in four different positions and the only one he hasn't made a century from is No. 6. But he nearly got one from that position too: he was dismissed on 96 batting with the tail in the second innings of the
Durban Test in 2013.
1999 The last time before Rahane that an India No. 3 hit a hundred in Sri Lanka in Tests. Rahul Dravid had made 107 in the first innings of an SSC Test. Overall, including Rahane's there have been
five hundreds by India's No. 3 in Sri Lanka, Mohinder Amarnath's unbeaten 116 in Kandy in 1985 being the only other hundred coming in the second innings.
4 Times M Vijay has got out in the second innings after scoring at least 80 including this Test. He has got scores of 82, 80, 11, 27, and 99 the last five times he has batted for the second time in a Test. Overall, Vijay has made five fifties in second innings and has scored 780 runs at an average of 31.20.
5 Number of times Vijay has been out lbw in his last ten innings, including thrice in his last three . He has been removed in this manner 14 times out of his 58 dismissals in Tests, for a dismissal percentage of 24.13. Among regular openers to debut since 2000, this is the fifth highest after Bangladesh's Javed Omar, Pakistan's Taufiq Umar, South Africa's Alviro Petersen and India's Gautam Gambhir.
11 Century stands in the second innings at P Sara Oval including the one between Vijay and Rahane in India' second innings. The last such stand came in the previous Test here, also for the second wicket, when Ahmed Shehzad and Azhar Ali added 120 runs in Pakistan's second innings.
29 Number of innings since the last time an India No. 3 made a hundred in Tests before Rahane in this innings. Cheteshwar Pujara had made one in the second innings of the Johannesburg Test in 2013. Since then, India's No. 3 batsmen have averaged 24.50 and had made just four fifties.
4 Times R Ashwin dismissed Sangakkara in this series, the most any bowler has dismissed him in a Test series. Ashwin conceded only 23 runs to him at an average of 5.75 runs per dismissal. Sangakkara has otherwise done very well against other offspinners, averaging 78.1 runs for each of his 31 dismissals against them in Tests since May 2001.
12 Number of
innings since the last time Sri Lanka's first wicket added 50 or more runs, including their second innings in this Test when their openers managed a stand of just one run. Their last century stand came 16 Tests ago, against Bangladesh in early 2014. Since then they have had only four fifty stands in 28 innings and have averaged 30.82 runs per partnership.
113.3 Longest in terms of overs a team has batted in the fourth innings at P Sara Oval. Sri Lanka chased down a target of 352 -
the highest to have been chased down successfully at this venue - with just a wicket to spare against South Africa on that occasion. Click
here for the most overs batted by a team and
here for the highest targets successfully chased in the fourth innings in Sri Lanka.