India v Sri Lanka, 2017: 3rd Test, Day 4 – Statistical Highlights

India set to extend their series winning streak with a 2-0 series win over the Lankans by dominating the 4th day’s play with both bat and ball. The visiting side were bowled out for 373 in their first innings with Dinesh Chandimal getting out on 164. Fifties from Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma helped India to post 246/5 in their 2nd innings before they declared with a lead of 409 runs. Sri Lanka lost three wickets for just 31 runs in the brief span of 16 overs before the stumps.

Here are the stats and numbers from yet another dominant day for India in this series:

3 – This is the 3rd time Virat Kohli aggregated 600+ runs in a Test series. He scored over 600 runs in the series against Australia in 2014/15 and against England in 2015. Thus, he became the first Indian with 600+ runs in three different Test series. He is currently tied with Neil Harvey, Gary Sobers, Brian Lara with three 600-run series and stands only behind Don Bradman (6).

3 – Shikhar Dhawan became the 3rd Indian batsman to be dismissed via stumping in this Test after Murali Vijay and Ajinkya Rahane in the first innings. This is only the 2nd time where three Indian players were out stumped in a Test match. India’s Pankaj Roy, Gulabrai Ramchand, Ghulam Ahmed were stumped out by England in the 1952 Leeds Test.

5 – Rohit Sharma has fifty-plus scores in each of his last five innings in Test cricket. His last five scores in this format are 82, 51*, 102*, 65 and 50*. He is now the 8th Indian player to score fifty-plus scores in five and more consecutive innings.

6 – The Delhi Test match is the only the 6th in the history and the 2nd in India where both the captains scored 150+ scores in an innings. Last of the previous five was the Karachi Test match in 2009 between Pakistan and Sri Lanka. India and Windies skippers scored 150+ scores in their respective first innings in the 1978 Mumbai Test.

17 – Ajinkya Rahane’s 17 runs in this series are the 2nd fewest for a specialist batsman in a Test series for India. (Min: 5 innings batted) Mohinder Amaranth aggregated just one run in the 1983 home series against Windies in which he bagged five ducks in six innings.

293 – Kohli’s match aggregate of 293 runs is now the highest for an Indian captain in a Test match. He surpassed Sunil Gavaskar’s match aggregate of 289 runs in the 1978 Test against Windies in Kolkata.

610 – With the 610 runs in this Test series, Kohli became only the 4th player and the first Indian with 600 and more runs in a 3-match Test series. Graham Gooch holds the record for the most runs in a 3-match Test series as the England batsman scored 752 runs against India in 1990 series.