Statistical highlights of the opening day in third and final Test between India and Sri Lanka, at the Brabourne stadium in Mumbai, on Wednesday.
# For the fourth time in a Test against India, Sri Lanka openers -- Dilshan (109) and Paranavitana (53) registered fifty-plus in the same innings. The first three instances were Wettimuny (79) and Ratnayeke (93) at Kanpur in 1986-87; Jayasuriya (53) and Atapattu (108) at Mohali and Jayasuriya (50) and Atapattu (98) at the Wankhede stadium, Mumbai
-- both in the 1997-98 rubber.
# Mahela Jayawardene (1522) is the first to aggregate 1500 runs for Sri Lanka against India -- his tally is the second-best after Sachin Tendulkar -- 1552 at an average of 57.48 in 22 Tests, including eight hundreds and three fifties.
# Angelo Matthews (86 not out) posted his career-best score, his second Test fifty. His first half-century in Tests was an unbeaten 64 against Pakistan at Colombo, SSC in July this year.
# Harbhajan Singh's figures of four for 107 are his second-best against Sri Lanka in India -- his best being 7 for 62 at Ahmedabad in December 2005.
# Harbhajan has captured 48 wickets in 13 Tests against Sri Lanka at an average of 33.93.
# In six Tests this year, Harbhajan has claimed 27 wickets at an average of 29.25, including one five-wicket haul.
# Dilshan posted his third century against India his 11th in Tests. He has scored six hundreds away from home and five at home.
# Dilshan is the second Sri Lankan after Duleep Mendis, in 1982-83, to post two hundreds in a Test series in India.
# Dilshan's tally of six centuries in 2009 is the second best for Sri Lanka in a calendar year -- the best being seven by Aravinda de Silva in 1997.
# Mahela Jayawardene's series tally of 361 (average 90.25) in four innings is a Sri Lankan record for most runs in a Test series in India.
# Prasanna Jayawardene (1012) became the third wicketkeeper to aggregate 1,000 runs or more for Sri Lanka in Tests, joining Kumar Sangakkara (3117) and Romesh Kaluwitharana (1872).
# Tharanga Paranavitana (53) recorded his first half-century against India, obliterating the 38 at Kanpur in the second Test of the current series. He had recorded his first two half-centuries in Tests against Pakistan -- 73 at Colombo SSC and 72 at Galle in 2009.
# Paranavitana and Tillakaratne Dilshan shared a stand of 93, Sri Lanka's best partnership for the first wicket in the 2009-10 series, outstripping 74 between the same pair in the Ahmedabad Test.
# For the first time in Tests, Tillakaratne Dilshan amassed 1,000 runs in 2009 -- his previous best tally in a calendar year was in 2005, aggregating 678 at an average of 56.50, in nine Tests.
# Dilshan (1081) is the fourth batsman to make 1,000 runs this year, joining Samaraweera (1234), Mahela Jayawardene (1182) and Andres Stauss (1071).
# Sri Lanka (366 for eight) has established a record for the highest total by any visiting side on the first day of the Test match against India, obliterating the 362 for seven by Australia at Nagpur in 2004-05.
