Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe 2017: One-off Test, Day 5 – Statistical Highlights

Zimbabwe failed to grab their chances on the final day after reducing the home side Sri Lanka to 203/5 having dismissed the settled pair Kusal Mendis and Angelo Mathews in the first hour. But a century stand between Niroshan Dickwella and Asela Gunaratne took the game away from the visitors as the hosts cruised to their highest successful run-chase in Test cricket with 4 wickets in hand.

Here we look at all the stats and recorded created during the day’s play.

1 – Graeme Cremer is the first Zimbabwe captain to bag 4-wicket hauls in both the innings of a Test match. He is the 5th Zimbabwe player over to bag 4-fers in both innings of a match.

2 – Dinesh Chandimal is now the 2nd Sri Lankan to win his first match as captain in all the 3 formats after Mahela Jayawardene. Overall, he is the 7th such captain.

3 – Number of Test matches including this with scores between 300 and 400. The other two are Adelaide Test between Australia and England in 1929 and PSS Test between Sri Lanka and South Africa in 2006.

5 – Number of Man of the series awards Rangana Herath has received in Test cricket so far; the 2nd most by any Sri Lankan. Only Muttiah Muralitharan has more MoS awards in Test cricket for Sri Lanka.

9/275 – Graeme Cremer’s match figures of 9/275 are the 7th instance of a bowler taking 9 wickets in a Test for Zimbabwe. No player has taken more than 7 wickets while leading Zimbabwe in a Test.

188 – Runs Sri Lanka scored in this game after losing 5 wickets; the 6th most by any team to win a Test in the 4th innings after losing their 5th wicket. All the top 5 instances were recorded before 2000.

388 – Target Sri Lanka chased down in this game; the 5th highest in Test cricket and the highest in Asia. The previous highest successful run-chase in Asia was 387 by India against England in 2008 at Chennai.

653 – Balls the Zimbabwe spinner bowled in the 4th innings of the game; the 2nd most by Zimbabwe spinners in a Test inning. They had bowled 746 balls against Pakistan in an innings in 1996 Sheikhpura Test.

733 – Zimbabwe’s aggregate of 733 in this Test is the highest for them in losing cause. Their previous highest match aggregate in a losing cause was 677 runs against South Africa in 2001. Their 733-run total is the highest for any team in a loss in a Test in Asia overhauling Bangladesh’s 723 vs Windies in 2012 at Dhaka.