Statistical highlights at the end of third day's play in the third and final cricket Test between India and Sri Lanka [Images] in Colombia on Sunday.

# With two centuries in a row at at P.Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo, Kumar Sangakkara has averaged 90.66 at this venue - 544 runs in seven innings, including two hundreds and two fifties.

# Sangakkara and Prasanna Jayawardene put on 80 runs - Sri Lanka's best partnership for the seventh wicket in Test Cricket at P Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo, bettering the 70 between Hashan Tillakaratne and Kumar Dharmasena against New Zealand [Images] in 2002-03.

# Prasanna Jayawardene (49) posted his highest score against India, eclipsing his 30 in the first Test of the present series at Colombo, SSC.

# Virender Sehwag's [Images] aggregate of 344 at an average of 68.80 is a record by an Indian batsman in a Test series against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka. 

# Sehwag's aggregate is now the third best by an Indian batsman in a Test series against Sri Lanka.  Sourav Ganguly [Images] had amassed 392 (ave.98.00) in the three-Test series in India in 1997-98 and Dilip Vengsarkar had made 376 at an averagte of 125.33 in the three-Test series in India in 1986-87.

# Sehwag, during the course of his 34, completed his 1,000 runs in the calendar year 2008 - 1002 at an average of 77.07, including three centuries and two fifties in only eight Tests. He is the second batsman to accomplish the feat this year. Graeme Smith [Images] (South Africa [Images]) has made 1179 runs at an average of 69.35 in 11 Tests. 

# Gautam Gambhir [Images] has completed 1,000 runs in Test Cricket - 1002 runs at an average of 37.11 in 17 Tests, including one century and six fifties.

# Gambhir became the second Indian batsman after Virender Sehwag to complete 300 runs in a Test series against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka -  310 at an average of 51.66, including three fifties.

# For the first time in his Test career, Gambhir has amassed 300 runs or more in a Test series, outstripping his previous best against Pakistan in 2004-05 when he had aggregated 179 at an average of 35.80 in the three-Test series.

# Gambhir and Sehwag became the first Indian pair to be associated in fifty-plus stands of 50-plus in Test cricket twice - 167 & 90 against Sri Lanka at Galle in 2008 and 51 & 62 at Colombo, PSS.

# Sourav Ganguly has averaged 16.00 in the series - 96 runs in six innings.

# Ganguly, in 9 Tests this year, has made only 459 runs at an average of 28.68, including four fifties.

# With 25 wickets (ave.17.44) in the series, Mendis has set a world record for most wickets by a bowler on his debut in a three-Test series.

# Mendis' tally is also the best by a Sri Lankan bowler in a Test series against India, outstripping Muralitharan's [Images] tally of 23 wickets (ave.19.30 runs)in 3 Tests in 2001.

# Harbhajan Singh [Images], with 15 wickets in the series at an average of 27.06, has set a series record for India against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka, surpassing Chetan Sharma's tally of 14 wickets in three Tests (ave.27.36 runs) in 1985-86.