SL vs IND 2024, 1st ODI Stats Review: Most runs for India in ODIs, Best bowling for Sri Lanka in ODIs, and other stats from Sri Lanka vs India First ODI

It was like a replay of the first ODI, but this time with a vastly different result. Defending a low total, Sri Lanka managed to come up trumps against India in the second ODI at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, the venue of the first ODI. 

Sri Lanka won the toss and set out to bat first. But, they were met with the worst possible start. Mohammed Siraj dismissed Pathum Nissanka on the first ball of the match. But after that, Sri Lanka managed to avoid further damage in the powerplay even if they were scoring slowly.

The introduction of the Indian spinners then stopped Sri Lanka's middle order in its tracks. Pathum Nissanka(40 off 62) departed to start a Sri Lankan collapse engineered by Washington Sundar(3 for 30), Kuldeep Yadav(2 for 33) and Axar Patel(1 for 38). Post this collapse, it was Duntih Wellalage(39 off 35) and Kamindu Mendis(40 off 44) who kept the ship alive and took Sri Lanka to 240. 

Rohit Sharma(64 off 44) started aggressively in the powerplay again and once again got to his own fifty before the 10-over mark while his opening partner Shubman Gill(35 off 44) was happy to move things at his own pace. India had relatively raced away to 97/0 in 13.2 overs and looked on target to finish the chase. Thus began the Jeffrey Vandersay show.

Vandersay(6 for 33) bowled a 7-over spell where he took each of the 6 Indian wickets to fall, leaving India from 97/0 to 147/6 in about 10 overs. Vandersay left the field for a while seemingly due to an injury, and Axar Patel(44 off 44) seemed to put this to great use until Charith Asalanka(3 for 20) dismissed him, and by that point, it was all over for India as Sri Lanka crawled their way back into a 32-run victory. 

Here are the top numbers from the game:

5 - This was the 150th ODI at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. It is now the fifth stadium to host 150 ODI matches after Sharjah, Harare, Sydney and Melbourne. 

7 - Mohammed Siraj's was the 7th instance of an Indian bowler taking a wicket on the first ball of an ODI. Of the previous six, Zaheer Khan had affected four while, Praveen Kumar and Debasis Mohanty affected one each as bowlers. 

4 - After finishing just one run short in the first ODI, Rohit Sharma finally passed Rahul Dravid's ODI run tally and managed to become India's fourth-highest run-getter in ODIs. 

4 - This was the fourth time in ODIs that Rohit Sharma managed to take his score to 50 before the 10-over mark. Sehwag with 7 has the highest(only where ball-by-ball data is available). 

7, 10, 4 - Jeffrey Vandersay's figures of 6/33 are now the 7th best for Sri Lanka and 10th best against India. They are also the 4th best bowling figures by a Sri Lankan player against India. 

16 - Jeffrey Vandersay's was the 16th instance of a Sri Lankan player taking 6 or more wickets in a single ODI. Sri Lanka now have the joint most such instances alongside Pakistan.

12 - Jeffrey Vandersay is now the 12th Sri Lankan player to take 6 or more wickets in a single ODI. Sri Lanka now also have the joint most number of players to take a 6-fer or better in ODIs alongside India who also have 12 such players.