Stats - SL's best year in Tests since 2006

6 Test wins for Sri Lanka in 2024, the joint-second-most for them in a calendar year. Sri Lanka won eight of the 13 Tests played in 2001 and six wins in 2006 out of the 11 matches.

6-0 Sri Lanka have won all the six Test matches they played against New Zealand at the Galle. These are the most matches played by a team at a venue against an opponent, winning all of them. The next highest is five each by Australia at the WACA in Perth against Pakistan, and South Africa against Sri Lanka at Centurion Park.

Sri Lanka also recorded only the fifth instance of a team winning six or more consecutive Tests against an opponent at a venue.

97 Wickets for Prabath Jayasuriya in his 16-match Test career so far. Only one bowler has bagged more than Prabath in their first 16 Tests - George Lohmann (101).

9 Wickets picked up by Nishan Peiris on his debut Test in Galle. Only two bowlers took more wickets for Sri Lanka on their Test debut - 12 by Prabath against Australia in 2022 and 11 by Praveen Jayawickrama against Bangladesh in 2021.

Peiris is only the fourth Sri Lankan to take a six-wicket haul on Test debut. Prabath was the previous man to do so, claiming six wickets each in both innings.

514 Sri Lanka's first-innings lead in Galle is the fifth-highest for any team in Test history. The highest is 702 runs by England against Australia in 1938 at The Oval. Only once did Sri Lanka have a higher first-innings lead - 587 against South Africa in the 2006 Colombo Test while batting second.

88 New Zealand's first-innings total in Galle is their lowest-ever against Sri Lanka in Test cricket. Their previous lowest was 102 all-out, in 1992 in Colombo's Sinhalese Sports Club.

9 Sri Lanka are now the first team in Test cricket with 600-plus totals against nine opponents. Their first-innings total of 602 for 5 in Galle was their first 500-plus total against New Zealand in the format. Australia and Afghanistan are the only teams against which Sri Lanka haven't posted a 600-plus total.

5 Catches for Dhananjaya de Silva in New Zealand's first innings. He is only the second Sri Lankan fielder to claim five catches in a Test innings, after Lahiru Thirimanne.

All the five catches Dhananjaya took were off Prabath's bowling, making him only the second fielder to claim five catches off a bowler in a Test innings. Thirimanne was the first, as all the five catches he took against England in 2021 were off Lasith Embuldeniya.