Sri Lanka v India, 3rd Test, Day 2 – Statistical Highlights
Here we look at all the stats and records created during the day’s play.
Sri Lanka might have ended the first day with their best performance of the series against India, but they are already nearing a defeat at end of the day 2, as they are left with 9 wickets in their 2nd innings. India ended their first innings at 487 following a blistering hundred from Hardik Pandya who rewrote a few records held by Indians. Later bowlers did the job for India bowling out Sri Lanka to just 135 in the first innings and enforced the follow-on. The home side lost a wicket before stumps in their 2nd innings.
Here we look at all the stats and records created during the day’s play:
3 – Hardik Pandya is only the 3rd Indian to score hat-trick sixes in Test cricket. Kapil Dev hit 4 in a row vs England in 1990 while MS Dhoni hit 3 sixes in 3 consecutive balls vs Windies in 2006.
4 – Only the 4th time India has enforced follow-on in consecutive Tests and the first time outside the home. The last instance was in a home series in 1994 also against Sri Lanka.
5 – Hardik Pandya is only the fifth Indian to score his maiden first-class century in a Test match. The last Indian to record this was Harbhajan Singh in 2010.
5/132 – Lakshan Sandakan’s five-wicket haul is the first by a chinaman bowler in Test cricket since Paul Adam’s 7/128 in 2003 against Pakistan.
7 – Number of sixes Hardik Pandya has hit in this innings; the joint 2nd most by any Indian in a single Test inning. His 7 sixes are the most for an Indian in an inning outside the home.
26 – Runs Hardik Pandya scored in a single over off Malinda Pushpakumara; the most by any Indian in an over in Test cricket. No Indian has hit 25 and more runs in an over before Pandya in this format.
37.4 – Sri Lanka’s first innings in this game is the shortest completed innings in India-Sri Lanka Test matches. Sri Lanka’s innings lasted 43.4 in the 2015 Test at Colombo (PSS).
86 – Balls Pandya needed for scoring his century; the 2nd fastest hundred by an Indian outside the home in Test cricket. Virender Sehwag scored a century in 78 balls against Windies at Gros Islet in 2006.
86 – Pandya’s 86-ball century is the joint fastest century by a visiting player in Sri Lanka. He equalled Wasim Akram’s record of a century in 86 balls which he scored in 2000 at the Galle.
107 – Runs Hardik Pandya has scored in the first session; he is the first Indian to score 100 runs in a session before Lunch in Test cricket. Virender Sehwag scored 99 runs before Lunch on day 1 vs Windies in 2006.
2007 – Last time before Hardik Pandya in this game, an Indian pacer scored a century and took a wicket in the same Test was against Pakistan in 2007 at Bangalore. Irfan Pathan and Sourav Ganguly scored centuries and picked wickets in that Test.
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