Sri Lanka's highest stand against West Indies
Stats highlight from the second day's play from the first Test between Sri Lanka and West Indies, in Galle
Shiva Jayaraman
15-Oct-2015
152 Dimuth Karunaratne's highest score in Tests before this 186. His 152 came against New Zealand in Christchurch in 2014. This was Karunaratne's third century in Tests and all of them have been 130-plus scores. He now has 1457 runs in Tests at an average of 36.42.
372 Runs Dinesh Chandimal has made in his last three innings in Galle. This was Chandimal's second consecutive 150-plus score at this venue. He had made a match-winning 162 not out in the second innings of the last Test here in Galle. Chandimal has now made 614 runs in Galle at an average of 76.75, with three centuries and one fifty.
0 Double-century stands by Sri Lanka against West Indies in Tests before the one between Karunaratne and Chandimal. Sri Lanka's previous-highest partnership for any wicket in Tests against West Indies was a 170-run stand between Thilan Samaraweera and Kumar Sangakkara that had come in 2010.
22 Number of Tests it has taken Chandimal to make five Test centuries. He is the second-quickest Sri Lanka batsman to make five Test centuries. Aravinda de Silva had taken one fewer Test to hit his fifth Test century.
59 Runs scored by Sri Lanka's last six wickets. This is the least their last six wickets have scored in an innings after their top-four had posted 400 or more runs. It is also only the fourth time they have been bowled out after their first-four wickets scored 400 or more. The last such instance was in 2005 when Sri Lanka collapsed from 407 for 4 to 498 all out in their first innings in Napier.
2011 The last and the only time in Galle that Sri Lanka's last-six wickets made a lower contribution to their total than they did in their first innings of this Test. On that occasion, they had collapsed from a score of 87 for 4 to 105 all out in their first innings against Australia.
2007 The last time there was a double-hundred stand for Sri Lanka's third wicket in Tests. Mahela Jayawardene and Michael Vandort had added 227 runs against England at the SSC. Overall, this was only the ninth time that Sri Lanka had added 200 or more runs for their third wicket.
1 Number of partnerships higher than the one between Karunaratne and Chandimal in Tests in Galle. Mohammad Ashraful and Mushfiqur Rahim had added 267 runs for Bangladesh's fifth wicket in 2013. Including the stand in this Test, there have been only seven 200-plus partnerships in Galle for any wicket. The last one was between Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli, who added 227 runs for India's third wicket in August this year.
1 Number of double-centuries by a Sri Lanka batsman against West Indies in Tests. Hashan Tillakaratne had scored 204 not out at the SSC in 2001. Karunaratne fell 14 runs short of becoming only the second batsman to do it. His 186 is now the second-highest by Sri Lanka batsman against West Indies. Chandimal's 151 is fourth on this list.
2 Number of times before Bishoo that a West Indies spinner had taken a four-wicket haul in Tests in Sri Lanka. The last such instance came in 2010, also in Galle, when Shane Shillingford took 4 for 123 in Sri Lanka's first innings. No West Indies spinner has taken a five-for in Tests in Sri Lanka.
3 Number of times Devendra Bishoo has taken four or more wickets in an innings in just the three Tests he has played in 2015. His best Test figures of 6 for 80 had come the last time he bowled in a Test, in Australia's first innings in Dominica this year. Bishoo has taken 14 wicket this year at an average of 30.85. His 40 wickets before that had come at 39.55 runs apiece.
Shiva Jayaraman is a senior sub-editor (stats) at ESPNcricinfo.com