From India’s most comprehensive away win to captain Kohli’s milestone: Stat highlights from Galle test

# India’s 304-run win is their largest in terms of runs in away from home Tests, eclipsing the 279 runs’ victory against England at Leeds in 1986.

# The aforesaid victory is India’s fourth largest in terms of runs – the biggest being by 337 runs vs South Africa at Delhi in 2015-16.

# Sri Lanka’s loss by 304 runs is their largest in Tests, outstripping the 301-run loss to Pakistan at Colombo (PSS) in August 1994.

# India set a target of 550 in the Galle Test – their second highest next only to the 617 to New Zealand at Wellington in 2008-09 in a drawn game. India have set a target of 500 or more five times.

# India have won three Tests under Virat Kohli’s captaincy out of four contested in Sri Lanka, equalling a record by a visiting captain in Sri Lanka. Australia, under Ricky Ponting’s captaincy, had won all three Tests when they whitewashed Sri Lanka in 2003-04.

# Dimuth Karunaratne (97) has posted his highest Test score in eight innings vs India, eclipsing the 46 at Colombo (PSS) in August 2015. He narrowly missed his sixth Test cebtyrt – the third highest by a Sri Lankan opener in the …read more