12/08Result
3rd Test, India tour of Sri Lanka at Kandy, Aug 12-14 2017
India won by an inns & 171 runs
Player of the Match
Hardik Pandya
Hardik PandyaIndia
12/08Result
3rd Test, India tour of Sri Lanka at Kandy, Aug 12-14 2017
India won by an inns & 171 runs
Player of the Match
Hardik Pandya
Hardik PandyaIndia

India have enforced the follow-on. Another appalling batting performance from Sri Lanka, this is not a bad pitch at all. They have been rolled over for 135, a deficit of 352. We'll be back with Sri Lanka's innings in a few minutes. 15 overs left in the day, that's enough time to do damage in this innings as well.

37.4
W
Ashwin to Sandakan, OUT, and that's the end of the innings. Flat on middle and leg, Sandakan gets a thick inside edge into his pad and goes to leg gully. Another soft dismissal.

PADLR Sandakan c Dhawan b Ashwin 10 (24m 24b 2x4 0x6) SR: 41.66

37.3
0
Ashwin to Sandakan, no run, flight on middle, Sandakan wants to send this into tomorrow but gets a thick inside edge into his pad
37.2
0
Ashwin to Sandakan, no run, 82 kph, more variation, the carrom ball outside off, defended

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A first

1

This is the first time India have whitewashed the oppositions in an away Test series of 3 or more Tests.

Chandimal's low

24

Dinesh Chandimal's average in this series - his 2nd worst in any Test series playing 2+ Tests. Also, he's the only SL top-order batsman without a 50+ score in this series.

All out in no time

2

No. of times SL have got all out in fewer overs in first inns of a home Test, than 37.4 overs in this match. They were all out in 28.2 overs v Pak, Kandy 1994 & 34.2 v Aus, Pallekele, 2016.

Maiden FC ton in Test

5

No. of India players to score their maiden first-class century in a Test, including Pandya. Others are: Vijay Manjrekar, Kapil Dev, Ajay Ratra and Harbhajan Singh.

Bang bang

26

Runs scored by Pandya in one over off Pushpakumara, the most by any India player in an over in Test history. Previous most: 24 by Kapil off E Hemmings, Lord's, 1990.

Brakes applied

134

Runs for which India lost their six wickets after Dhawan and Rahul added 188 runs for the opening wicket. The run rate dropped from 4.75 to 3.65.

Openers' double

2011

Last time an Ind opener scored 2+ 100s in an away Test series, Dravid in England. This is also the first time Dhawan has made more than one century in a series.

Record partnership

171

Previous highest opening stand for visiting sides in Sri Lanka, between Prabhakar & Sidhu at SSC in 1993. Dhawan & Rahul have gone past that mark.

Record streak

7

No. of consecutive 50+ scores for KL Rahul, the joint-most. Weekes, A Flower, Chanderpaul, Sangakkara & Rogers also made 7 50+ scores in a row.

Quick hundred runs

2010

Last time India reached 100 runs in fewer balls in a Test innings than in the 17.4 overs today, v Aus in Mohali. Since 2001, this is the sixth-fastest team 100 for Ind.

Three in a row

3

No. of tosses won by India in this 3-match series. They have elected to bat first all the three times.