Pakistan v Sri Lanka 2017: 1st Test, Day 2 – Statistical Highlights

Sri Lanka might not be happy with their score of 419 after the amount of hard work their batsmen especially captain Dinesh Chandimal put in for nearly five sessions. Pakistan team came back well to pick the last five wickets for just 33 runs and keep the visiting team to a moderate total. The home team openers went to stumps unbeaten adding 64 runs on the 2nd day of the game.

Here we look at all the stats and records created during the day’s play.

2 – Number of centuries in Test cricket since the start of 2015 where the batsman took 270 or more balls to get there. Both the 270+ ball centuries are held by Dinesh Chandimal. The Sri Lankan needed 273 balls for this century and took 281 balls for his century against Australia last year at Colombo (SSC).

9 – Number of occasions when the teams had partnerships of 90 and more for 4th, 5th and 6th wickets in the same innings. Sri Lanka’s innings was the 9th such instance with the last one being in 2008 for the same team against India. Had the 6th wicket stand between Chandimal and Dilruwan Perera been a century stand (92 runs actually), it could have been only the 2nd occasions of a team having century stands for 4th, 5th and 6th wickets in the same Test innings. India recorded that against Windies in 1979 at Kanpur.

155* – Dinesh Chandimal’s unbeaten 155 is the 3rd highest individual score by a Sri Lankan captain in a Test innings in the United Arab Emirates. Kumar Sangakkara scored 211 against Pakistan while Angelo Mathews scored 157* in 2013 as a captain. All the three 150+ scores by Sri Lankan players in UAE have come at Abu Dhabi.

236.4 – Dinesh Chandimal’s batting average of 236.4 while scoring a century in Tests is the highest for any Sri Lankan player. (Min: 5 centuries) This hundred was Chandimal’s 9th century and his 3rd score in excess of 150 and more in Test cricket.

273 – Chandimal needed 273 balls for completing his century in this game. This is his 2nd slowest century in Test cricket behind his 281-ball hundred against Australia in 2016. This is also the 5th slowest known Test century by a Sri Lankan player.

2009 – The last instance when Haris Sohail took a wicket in first-class cricket was way back in 2009. The wicket of Dilruwan Perera is only the 2nd wicket for him in FC cricket. Last time he featured in an FC game before making his Test debut in this game was in January 2014.