# With his 41 off 32 balls, Gautam Gambhir [ Images ] became the first batsman to complete 600 runs for India [ Images ] in Twenty20 [ Images ] Internationals, amassing 621 at an average of 28.22 in 23 matches.
# Suresh Raina [ Images ] tallies 219 runs (avg .43.80) in the tournament. His aggregate is bettered only by Mahela Jayawardene [ Images ] - 292 at an average of 73.00, including one hundred and two fifties.
# Raina's 63 off 47 balls is his second fifty and the second best in Twenty20 Internationals, next only to the 101 against South Africa [ Images ] at Gros Islet, St Lucia.
# Kumar Sangakkara's [ Images ] aggregate of 557 runs (avg 37.13) in 17 matches is the second best as captain in Twenty20 Internationals. Graeme Smith [ Images ] (South Africa) is the only one to make 700 runs as captain - 751 at an average of 32.65 in 25 games.
# Sangakkara (404) became the third batsman to complete 400 runs or more for Sri Lanka [ Images ] in the ICC [ Images ] World Twenty20, joining Mahela Jayawardene (605) and Tillakaratne Dilshan [ Images ] (444).
# Ashish Nehra [ Images ], with 10 wickets at an average of 15.60 (strike rate 12.00) in five games, is the top wicket-taker for India in the present competition.
# Before the semi-final games, the four top wicket-takers in the 2010 tournament of ICC World Twenty20 are - Dirk Nannes [ Images ] (13), Charl Langeveldt (11), Saeed Ajmal [ Images ] (10) and Ashish Nehra (10).
# Sri Lanka, with their deserving five-wicket win, have become the second team after Pakistan to post 12 victories out of 17 in ICC World Twenty20.
# Sri Lanka's first win against India in the ICC World Twenty20 is their second in Twenty20 Internationals.
# Harbhajan Singh [ Images ] could not claim a single wicket in the present competition, conceding 123 runs in five games. For the first time, Harbhajan has failed to take a wicket in five games in a row.
# With his fourth duck, Sanath Jayasuriya [ Images ] has earned a dubious feat of recording most ducks in ICC World Twenty20.
# Ajantha Mendis [ Images ] and Lasith Malinga [ Images ], with 29 wickets each, share a record for most wickets for Sri Lanka in Twenty20 Internationals.
# With 24 wickets (avg.17.20), Malinga holds a Sri Lankan record in ICC World Twenty20.
# Angelo Matthews' excellent knock of 46 off 37 balls is his highest ever innings in Twenty20 Internationals.
# Matthews, for the first time, has been adjudged the Man of the Match in Twenty20 Internationals.
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