7 awesome records that were created during India vs Sri Lanka 5th ODI


India beat Sri Lanka by six wickets in the last match of the five match series and recorded a historic white-wash.


1. Lightening fast Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who is known to be the best wicket keeper, has proved that no one is better than him behind the stumps. He has become the first Wicket-Keeper to effect 100 stumpings in One Day Internationals.

2. Indian captain Virat Kohli completed his 30 centuries against Sri Lanka and now he is second all-time player to do so. He jointly holds the second place with Ricky Ponting. Sachin Tendulkar leads the list with 49 tons.

a. Tendulkar

b. Ricky Ponting / Virat Kohli - 30

c. Sanath Jayasuriya - 28

d. Kumar Sangakkara / Hashim Amla - 25

e. AB de Villiers - 24

3. Pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar achieved his maiden five-wicket haul.

4. Virat Kohli led India has become the first team to clean-sweep a bilateral ODI series in Sri Lanka.

5. Maximum number of ODI centuries against an opponent:

Tendulkar has scored 9 tons vs Australia

Tendulkar and Virat Kohli, both have scored 8 centuries against SL


6. Back-to-back ODI hundreds most number of times:

AB de Villiers - 7
Saeed Anwar / K Sangakkara / Virat Kohli - 5
Ross Taylor - 4

7. Scoring 1000+ runs in a calendar year most number of times:

S Tendulkar - 7
S Ganguly / R Ponting / K Sangakkara - 6
Virat Kohli - 5
S Jayasuriya / M Yousuf/ M Jayawardene / T Dilshan - 4

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