Stats – India end unbeaten home season with 93.7% winning rate
Sri Lanka, meanwhile, remained without a win in India, having lost 13 of their 22 Tests here
Sampath Bandarupalli14-Mar-20221:43
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22 Test matches played by Sri Lanka in India, the most by a team in a country without winning even one. Sri Lanka lost 13 of the 22 while another nine matches ended in a draw. They have not bowled India out twice in any of those 22 Tests.5.87 Jasprit Bumrah’s bowling average in this match, the third-best for any Indian bowler in a Test match (min: 8 wickets). Venkatapathy Raju took 8 for 37 against Sri Lanka at an average of 4.62 in 1990, while R Ashwin’s eight wickets came at 5.25 in the 2016 Indore Test against New Zealand. Bumrah’s average of 9.00 in this series is also the second-best for India in a Test series (min: 10 wickets).22 Instances of R Ashwin claiming the match-finishing wicket in a Test win. These are the joint-most instances for a bowler. Shane Warne also has taken the match-winning scalp on 22 occasions, while Muthiah Muralidaran did it 18 times.
93.7 India’s win percentage across formats in the 2021-22 home season. Only one team had a better win percentage in an International home season (min: 15 matches). Australia had a 100% win record in the 2000-01 home season, winning all 15 they played.The 16 matches played by India are also the second most played by a team in a home season which they ended unbeaten. Australia played 19 games in the 2009-10 home season, of which they won 17.2 Dimuth Karunaratne is only the second visiting opener to score a fourth-innings century in India. Mark Taylor scored an unbeaten 102 during a successful 194-run chase in 1998, also in Bangalore. Karunaratne is also only the fifth visiting batter to score a hundred in the fourth-innings in India.0 Number of instances of a team declaring their second innings as early as on the second day of a men’s Test match, before India on Sunday. The home team had a second-innings lead of 446 runs when they declared on the second evening. This is the highest second-innings lead earned by any team on the second day of a Test surpassing Australia’s 439 runs at stumps against New Zealand in the 1974 Auckland Test.
1.85 Batting average of Sri Lanka’s tail (Nos. 8, 9, 10 and 11) in this series, the lowest for a team’s lower order in a Test series (Min: 10 batting innings). The previous lowest was 2.66 for West Indies against New Zealand in 1999.16.72 Sri Lanka’s average in this Test series is their second-lowest in a two-plus match series. Sri Lanka’s lowest is 16.30 during the 1983 away series against New Zealand. The average of 16.72 is also the third-lowest by a team in a two-plus match Test series against India.