# Muttiah Muralitharan is averaging 43.00 in India – 36 wickets in 10 Tests with a strike rate of 84.1. His overall tally against India is 93 wickets at 31.87 runs apiece in 20 Tests.

# Muralitharan (18-0-100-2) has extended his unwanted record of conceding 100 runs or more 59 times.

# Gautam Gambhir is the third Indian player to post four successive Test hundreds - the first two being Sunil Gavaskar and Rahul Dravid.

# Gambhir has registered seven centuries in his last nine Tests.

# For the sixth time, both Indian openers have made hundreds in the same Test innings.

# The opening stand of 233 between Gambhir and Sehwag is an Indian record against Sri Lanka - the first double century stand against Sri Lanka for this wicket-position.

# Gambhir-Sehwag pair became the first to make two double century stands for the first wicket in India, both at Green Park.

# India (417) have provided the first ever instance of 400 or more in a day's play, surpassing the 385 for six on the first day of the Ahmedabad Test last week.

# Virender Sehwag (131) has posted his second highest score at Green Park - his highest being 164 off 228 balls against South Africa at Kanpur in 2004-05.

# Sehwag's second century against Sri Lanka is his 16th in Tests.  He has posted eight hundreds each in India and away from home.

# Rahul Dravid (85 not out) has registered his best innings at Green Park - his third fifty at this venue - his previous highest was 56 against South Africa in December 1996.

# Dravid's 58th Test fifty is his ninth against Sri Lanka.

# Gautam Gambhir (167) has posted his highest innings at Green Park.