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Statistical Highlights Of The Second Test Between India And Sri Lanka
By CricShots - Nov 27, 2017 9:10 am
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India had thrashed Sri Lanka in the Nagpur Test with 4 of their batsmen scoring centuries but Sri Lanka was expected to give a tougher challenge to India than they did on the fourth day of the second Test.

The visitors crumbled and lost seven wickets in the first session and witnessed their biggest defeat in Test cricket. That disgrace was completed when R Ashwin took his 300th Test wicket and Sri Lanka’s last of the Test to complete India’s joint biggest Test win by an innings and 239 runs on Monday.

Here are some stats about the second Test:

# India’s total of 610/6 dec. was the first score of 600 at Jamtha, Nagpur, exceeding India’s 566/8 dec. vs New Zealand in November 2010.

# Virat Kohli (213) has posted his 19th Test hundred – his fourth against Sri Lanka. In 31 Test matches in India, he has recorded 9 tons.

# In calendar years, 2014, 2016 & 2017, Virat has registered four centuries each. The only calendar year when he did not hit a century was 2011. In 2011, his batting average was 22.44, his worst performance in a calendar year in Test cricket.

# Kohli has become the first skipper to register 10 centuries in a calendar year in international cricket. He has surpassed nine centuries recorded by Ricky Ponting (twice) — 2005 & 2006 and Graeme Smith (2005).

# Kohli has managed 51 centuries in international cricket. His tally includes 12 vs Sri Lanka. Just one batsman has recorded more centuries against Sri Lanka across all formats — 17 by Sachin Tendulkar.

# With five double centuries (all as skipper) in Tests, Kohli has equaled a record for most double centuries as captain, held by West Indian Brian Lara.

# Kohli has set an Indian record for most hundreds (12) as captain, bettering the 11 by Sunil Gavaskar.

# Kohli’s batting average as Indian skipper is the highest among the Indian captains with at least 500 runs as he amassed as many as 2877 (ave.63.93) in 31 Test matches (49 innings).

# With 12 centuries out of 16 knocks of more than 50as captain, Kohli’s conversion rate of 75 percent is the highest among the captains with 10 or more centuries.

# Kohli has become the first Indian batsman to post a double hundred in Tests at Jamtha, Nagpur — the second overall at this venue, next only to Hashim Amla’s 253* for South Africa vs India in February 2010.

# Since posting 132 vs Sri Lanka at Colombo (SSC) in a Test match in August 2017, Ajinkya Rahane has recorded low scores of 17, 4, 0 & 2 against them.

# Rahane’s batting average of 38.78 in 2017 in the longest formats is his worst in a calendar year — his tally being 543 in 10 Tests, including a hundred and three half-centuries.

# Cheteshwar Pujara is averaging more than 80 against Sri Lanka in Tests — his tally being 671 in six Tests (nine innings) at an average of 83.87, including four centuries and a half-century.

# During his superb innings of 143, Pujara has completed his 3,000 Test runs on Indian conditions— his total being 3014 at an average of 64.12, including 10 tons and 13 50+ innings, in 32 Test matches. He remains the only Indian batsman to manage an average of more than 60 while amassing 3000 Test runs in India.

# Pujara took just 53 innings to race to his 3,000 Test runs in India — the fastest by an Indian batsman towards this feat, surpassing Tendulkar’s 55 innings.

# Kohli and Pujara were involved in a partnership of 183 — India’s highest third-wicket partnership vs Sri Lanka in the longest format in India — their second highest for this wicket next only to the 227 between Shikhar Dhawan and Virat at Galle in August 2015.

# Dilruwan Perera (45-2-202-3), for the first time, has conceded 200 runs in a Test knock. He became the third Sri Lankan bowler to give away 200 runs or more in a Test innings vs India — the first two being Rangana Herath (53.3-2-240-3) at Mumbai (BS) in December 2009 and Suraj Randiv (73-16-222-2) at Colombo (SSC) in July 2010.

# Four Indian batsmen have registered centuries in their first innings total of 610/6 dec. — the third such instance in a Test innings for India.

# Since posting centuries in his first two Test innings against the West Indies — 177 off 301 deliveries in Kolkata and 111* off 127 balls at Mumbai in November 2013, Rohit Sharma’s unbeaten hundred (102 not out off 160 balls) vs Sri Lanka is his third in Tests.

# For the first time, Rohit has registered three consecutive innings of 50+ in Tests. In his previous two innings, he had made 82 off 132 balls at Kolkata and 51* off 63 balls at Indore in October 2016, both vs New Zealand.

# R Ashwin became the Ashwin entered the elite ‘club 300’ in Tests and he also became the fastest (54 Test) to do so. Ashwin broke the record of Australian legend Dennis Lillee, who achieved the feat in 56 Test matches in 1981.

# India’s win of innings and 239 runs against SL in the Nagpur Test was their joint best in the longest format of the game with the win they registered against Bangladesh with the same margin in 2007 at Dhaka.