Day 2 in the first Test between India and Sri Lanka at Galle again belonged to the visitors.
Opener Shikhar Dhawan and captain Virat Kohli both scored hundreds as India took a big first innings lead.
Rajneesh Gupta presents some interesting numbers from the day's proceedings.
2 - Number of fifties by Indian wicket-keepers in 19 Tests in Sri Lanka. Before Wriddhiman Saha’s 50 today MS Dhoni had made 76 at Colombo SSC in 2010.
3 - Number of Indian openers to score a hundred in consecutive innings in away Tests. Dhawan had made 173 against Bangladesh at Fatullah before his 134 today. Dhawan joined Sunil Gavaskar and Rahul Dravid in accomplishing this feat. Gavaskar did so twice.
4 - Number of hundreds scored by Virat Kohli in his first four Tests as captain: 115 and 141 at Adelaide, 147 at Sydney against Australia and now 103 against Sri Lanka. Kohli is only the third player to score four hundreds in first four Tests as captain, emulating fellow countryman Sunil Gavaskar and England’s Alastair Cook. Cook, in fact, scored hundreds in his first five Tests as captain.
5 - Number of ducks scored by the Sri Lankan batsmen so far in the match. The record of most ducks by any side in a Test against India at home is six – by Bangladesh at Chittagong in 2004-05 and Sri Lanka at Galle in 2008.
6 - Number of times both openers were dismissed for duck in the same innings against India. Dimuth Karunaratne and Kaushal Silva are the first such pair to fall to the spinners. Other openers to suffer this fate against India are: John Holt and Conrad Hunte (Kanpur, 1958-59), Alvin Greenidge and Basil Williams (Mumbai WS, 1978-79), Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes (Port-of-Spain, 1982-83) for West Indies, Grant Flower and Gavin Rennie (Delhi, 2000-01) for Zimbabwe; and Tamim Iqbal and Imrul Kayes (Mirpur, 2009-10) for Bangladesh.
192 - Difference between two teams’ first innings totals. This is the highest first innings lead achieved by India in a Test in Sri Lanka. The previous record was of 112 at Colombo SSC in 1993.
227 - Runs added by Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli – India’s highest third wicket partnership in Sri Lanka. Previous best was 162 between two pals – Vinod Kambli and Sachin Tendulkar – at Colombo PSS in 1993.
