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Stats Highlights, India vs SL, 2nd ODI

Kumar Sangakkaraā€™s 61 was his 87th score of 50 or more. He now moves to the second place among the batsmen with most 50-plus scores, ahead of Jacques Kallis (86). Now only Sachin Tendulkar ā€“with 96 such scores ā€“ is ahead of Sangakkara.

Angelo Mathews (92*) has now aggregated 3128 runs in 135 matches without scoring a hundred. His tally is the highest for a Sri Lankan and fifth highest overall without a hundred after Misbah-ul-Haq (4609), Wasim Akram (3717), Elton Chigumbura (3277) and Moin Khan (3266).

Mathews has now taken his run-tally in ODIs in 2014 to 838 ā€“ more than any other batsman. Sangakkara is second with 802 runs.

Playing his 21st ODI, Ambati Rayudu (121*) made his maiden ODI hundred. He became 35th Indian to score an ODI hundred.

Only three Indians have scored a maiden ODI hundred at an older age than Ambati Rayudu.
The details:

Age

Batsman

Runs

Opponents

Venue

Year

38 Yrs 113 Days

Sunil Gavaskar

103*

New Zealand

Nagpur

1987

37 Yrs 117 Days

Mohinder Amarnath

100*

West Indies

Faridabad

1988

33 Yrs 343 Days

Robin Singh

100

Sri Lanka

Colombo SSC

1997

29 Yrs   44 Days

Ambati Rayudu

121*

Sri Lanka

Ahmedabad

2014

28 Yrs 243 Days

Dilip Vengsarkar

105

England

Pune

1984


India (275-4) registered their second highest successful chase in 15 ODIs at Ahmedabad. The best still remains 325-5 against West Indies in 2002.

Incidentally, India had won only one out of last six ODIs at Ahmedabad.

India have now won eight and lost only two of their last 10 completed ODIs against Sri Lanka.

Virat Kohli has now won 11 out of 14 ODIs in which he has captained India against Sri Lanka. His win-percentage is the third highest for a player captaining his side in 10 or more matches. The details:

Captain

Mts

Won

Lost

NR

Tied

Win%

Shane Warne (Aus)

11

10

1

0

0

90.90

Johan Botha (SA)

10

8

2

0

0

80.00

Virat Kohli (Ind)

14

11

3

0

0

78.57

Clive Lloyd (WI)

84

64

18

1

1

76.19

Ricky Ponting (Aus)

230

165

51

12

2

71.73

Hansie Cronje (SA)

138

99

35

3

1

71.73