Statistical highlights on the fourth day of the second cricket Test between India and Sri Lanka in Colombo on Sunday. # India (325/8d) have registered their highest second innings total at P Sara Oval, surpassing the 268 in 2008. Their highest ever second innings total in Sri Lanka is 359 for four declared at Colombo, SSC in 1993. App users, click here to watch Video review of Day 4 # Murali Vijay (82) has registered his highest score vs Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka - his second highest score vs Sri Lanka behind the 87 at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai in December 2009. [related-post] # Vijay's third fifty vs Sri Lanka is his 11th in Tests. # Ajinkya Rahane's 126 is his fourth Test century - his first vs Sri Lanka. # Rahane has recorded all his four centuries in overseas Tests - 147 vs Australia at Melbourne, 118 vs New Zealand at Wellington and 103 vs England at Lord's - all three last year and 126 vs Sri Lanka at P Sara Oval, Colombo. # Amongst the Indian players, only two had made more away hundreds before posting a hundred in India - 8 by Sunil Gavaskar and 5 by Rahul Dravid. # Rahane is averaging 49.37 in 16 Tests away from home - his tally being 1333 at a strike rate of 56.79, including four hundreds and seven fifties. # Rahane's 126 is the highest individual score by India's number three batsman against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka, bettering the 125 by Vinod Kambli at Colombo, SSC in 1993. # Before Rahane's feat, Rahul Dravid was last India's number three batsman to post a century in Sri Lanka - 107 at Colombo, SSC in February 1999. # Vijay and Rahane were associated in a partnership of 140 - India's highest second-wicket stand in the second innings vs Sri Lanka. The said stand is India's second highest for any wicket in the second innings vs Sri Lanka next only to the 171 for the first wicket between Manoj Prabhakar and Navjot Singh Sidhu at Colombo, SSC in 1993. # Angelo Matthews (2022 at an average of 72.21 in 20 Tests) has become the fourth Sri Lankan captain after Mahela Jayawardene (3665), Arjuna Ranatunga (3118) and Sanath Jayasuriya (2177) to manage 2,000 runs or more as captain. # Sri Lanka are without a partnership of 50 or more for the first wicket in 12 innings in succession. They managed just 255 runs in 12 innings at an average of 21.25.
