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Following are statistical highlights of the third day's play between India and Sri Lanka [Images] in the second Test in Galle, on Saturday.
# Jayawardene became the first Sri Lankan batsman to amass 200 runs in the current series -- 222 at an average of 111.00.
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Jayawardene's sixth half-century (86) against India is his 31st in Test cricket.
# At Galle International Stadium, Jayawardene has amassed 1475 runs at an average of 98.33, including four hundreds and seven fifties in 13 Tests -- the most by any batsman.
# Sri Lanka's 292 is their lowest total against India at Galle. In their only previous Test against India at this venue in August 2001, Sri Lanka had made 362.
# VVS Laxman is now the fourth Indian fielder to complete a century of catches in Test cricket, joining Rahul Dravid [Images] (175), Sunil Gavaskar [Images] (108) and Mohammad Azharuddin (105). He achieved the distinction with Prasanna Jayawardene's catch.
# Harbhajan's splendid figures (6/102) are now the best by an Indian bowler against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka, outstripping Venkatash Prasad's 5 for 72 at Kandy in 2001-02.
# Harbhajan Singh [Images] has produced his best bowling figures away from home. For the first time in his career, he has bagged six wickets in an innings on foreign soil.
# Harbhajan Singh produced his second five-wicket haul against Sri Lanka -- his 22nd overall.
# Harbhajan's best figures against Sri Lanka have been 7 for 62 at Ahmedabad [Images] in 2005-06.
# Virender Sehwag [Images], with his 50 off 52 balls, for the first time in his Test career, has recorded a double hundred and a fifty in the same Test match.
# Sehwag's 50 off 52 balls is his 14th fifty in Test cricket -- his first against Sri Lanka.
# For the first time in his Test career, Gautam Gambhir [Images] (56 and 74) has recorded a fifty in each innings of a Test match.
# Gambhir became the second Indian batsman to complete 200 runs in the present series -- 212 runs at an average of 53.00.
# During the course of his second innings, Rahul Dravid became the second batsman to aggregate 6,000 runs away from home -- 6038 at an average of 56.96 in 71 Tests, joining Sachin Tendulkar [Images] -- 6801 (average 54.40) in 86 Tests.
# Dravid's 44 is his highest score in eight innings. In 2008, he has made 464 runs at an average of 35.69 in 8 Tests, including one century and two fifties.
# In 2007 also, his average was 35.00 -- 606 in 10 Tests at an average of 35.64.
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