Sri Lanka v India, 3rd Test, Day 2 – Statistical Highlights

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.