India in SL

A look at the statistical highlights of the third day's play in the second Test between India and Sri Lanka at Galle.

- Sri Lanka's 292 is their lowest total against India at Galle. In their only previous Test against India at this venue in August 2001, Sri Lanka had made 362.

- VVS Laxman, with Prasanna Jayawardene's catch, became the fourth Indian fielder to complete a century of catches in Test Cricket, joining Rahul Dravid (175), Sunil Gavaskar (108) and Mohammad Azharuddin (105).

- Harbhajan Singh has produced his best bowling figures away from home. For the first time in his career, he has bagged six wickets in an innings on foreign soil.

- Harbhajan Singh has produced his second five-wicket haul against Sri Lanka - his 22nd overall.

- Harbhajan's best figures against Sri Lanka have been 7 for 62 at Ahmedabad in 2005-06.

- Of his 22 five-wicket hauls, Harbhajan has recorded only five such instances away from home as under:

6/102 vs. Sri Lanka Galle 2008
5/13 vs. West Indies Kingston 2006
5/115 vs. England The Oval 2002
5/138 vs. West Indies Kingston 2002
5/147 vs. West Indies Basseterre 2006

- Harbhajan's splendid figures are now the best by an Indian bowler against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka, bettering Venkatash Prasad's 5 for 72 at Kandy in 2001-02.

- In 23 Tests as captain, Mahela Jayawardene has aggregated 2394 runs at an average of 68.40, including 10 centuries and four fifties. His average is the second best amongst Test captains with 2000 runs or more in Test Cricket. Sir Donald Bradman had averaged 101.52 as captain - 3147 runs in 24 Tests, including 14 hundreds and seven fifties.

- Jayawardene became the first Sri Lankan batsman to aggregate 200 runs in the present series - 222 at an average of 111.00. Only Virender Sehwag has made more runs in the series than Jayawardene - 289 at an average of 96.33.

- Jayawardene's sixth fifty (86) against India is his 31st in Test cricket.

- Jayawardene, at Galle International Stadium, has aggregated 1475 runs at an average of 98.33, including four centuries and seven fifties in 13 Tests - the most by any batsman.

- Jayawardene, in his last four innings at Galle, has recorded two double hundreds and a eighty-plus - 237 against South Africa in 2004; 213 not out against England in 2007-08 and 86 against India in 2008.

- Virender Sehwag, with his 50 off 52 balls, for the first time in his Test career, has recorded a double hundred and a fifty in the same Test match.

- Sehwag became the third batsman to register a double hundred and a fifty-plus in a Test match against Sri Lanka. West Indian, Brian Lara, made 221 & 130 at Colombo, SSC in 2001-02 and Stephen Fleming (New Zealand) posted 274 not out and 69 not out at Colombo, PSS in 2002-03.

- Sehwag's 50 off 52 balls is his 14th fifty in Test cricket - his first against Sri Lanka.

- For the first time in his Test career, Gautam Gambhir (56 and 74) has recorded a fifty in each innings of a Test match.

- Gambhir became the second Indian batsman to complete 200 runs in the present series - 212 runs at an average of 53.00.

- Virender Sehwag (201 not out + 50) and Gautam Gambhir (56 + 74) have provided the first instance when both the openers have recorded 50-plus in each innings of a Test match for India in an away Test. Sunil Gavaskar (205 + 73) and Chetan Chauhan (52 + 84) had achieved the feat against West Indies at Mumbai in 1978-79.

- During the course of his second innings, Rahul Dravid became the second batsman to aggregate 6,000 runs away from home - 6038 at an average of 56.96 in 71 Tests, joining Sachin Tendulkar - 6801 (ave.54.40)in 86 Tests.

- Dravid's 44 is his highest score in eight innings. In 2008, he has made 464 runs at an average of 35.69 in 8 Tests, including one century and two fifties.

- In 2007 also, his average was 35.00 - 606 in 10 Tests at an average of 35.64.