Stats: India end 22-year Lankan drought while Angelo Mathews scores a century in vain

India have beaten Sri Lanka by 117 runs to win the series 2-1.Ishant Sharma was the hero for the visitors as India were able to pull off an exciting victory in a match which went into the final session on the fifth day.Cheteshwar Pujara was awarded the Man of the Match award for his brilliant undefeated knock of 145 in the first innings while the Man of the Series award was grabbed by Ravichandran Ashwin who impressed with 21 wickets in the three matches.

#1 Mathew\'s ton in vain

Angelo Mathews plays a shot on Day 5

408- runs scored by Angelo Mathews in losing causes in this year- 2nd most for any player after Alastair Cook's 454. Angelo Mathews has scored a total of 631 runs this year, of which only 35% are in drawn and won matches.

2- Angelo Mathews has become the second Test captain to score 3 centuries in a losing cause in a single calendar year. The other captain was Australian Steve Waugh who did it in 2003.

3- number of instances when Sri Lanka lost a Test match when Angelo Mathews struck a century as captain- joint 3rd most for any captain scoring a century and ending on losing side. Brian Lara (5), Steve Waugh (4), Azharuddin (3) and John Reid (3) top the list.

6- centuries for Angelo Mathews as captain of his side in 40 innings with an average of 68.80, while when playing not as captain, he had struck only 1 century in 50 innings with 39.71 average.

68.80- Angelo Mathews' batting average in Test when leading his side- 3rd highest for any player while captaining his side after Kumar Sangakkara and Don Bradman.

103.40- Angelo Mathews' batting average as Test captain in 2nd innings- highest for any captain in 2nd innings of the team barring Don Bradman (min 500 runs). Angelo Mathews has scored 1034 runs with 4 hundreds and 2 fifties in 2nd innings of the team.

#2 Virat Kohli\'s First Series win

Virat Kohli’s first series win

Virat Kohli became the youngest Test captain from India to win an away Test series, beating Kapil Dev's record when he won the series against England in 1986.

Virat Kohli is the 3rd Indian captain and first for away series to have won the series after losing the first match of the series. Overall it is his first series victory.

#3 Indian Team quench thirst after 22 years

India’s first away series win since 2011

2- number of matches won by India in this series- their most wins in Sri Lanka in a single series. India, before today, have never won more than one match in one series in Sri Lanka.

2nd- series win for India in Sri Lanka and first since 1993. India have played 8 test Series in Sri Lanka with 3 lost and 3 drawn. Last time, India won a series in Sri Lanka was back in 1993 when they won a three-match series 1-0.

2011- last time an away Test series was won by India. It was against West Indies and since then, India has lost 6 and drawn 1 series.

#4 Ishant\'s 200 and Perera\'s double half-ton

Ishant Sharma is only 4th Indian pacer to take 200 Test wickets

200 - Test wickets Ishant Sharma has completed today- thus becoming the 8th Indian bowler and 4th Indian pacer to reach this mark. Anil Kumble with 619 wickets leads the Indian bowlers in tests.

125- runs scored by Kusal Perera in his debut test match- 4th most for any wicket keeper batsman making his career debut. Interestingly, 3 of top 4 such keepers including Kusal Perera are from Sri Lanka and played their debut game at Colombo (SSC).

3- Kusal Perera became the only 3rd batsman in the Test history to score 2 fifty plus scores in debut match of test career. The other two being Dilawar Hussain from India (1934) and Dinesh Chandimal from Sri Lanka (2011).

98.21- strike rate of Kusal Perera on his Test debut, which is conveniently the highest for any Sri Lankan wicket-keeper in an innings of the first Test of his career.