02/12Result
3rd Test, Sri Lanka tour of India at Delhi, Dec 2-6 2017
Match drawn
Player of the Match
Virat Kohli
Virat KohliIndia
02/12Result
3rd Test, Sri Lanka tour of India at Delhi, Dec 2-6 2017
Match drawn
Player of the Match
Virat Kohli
Virat KohliIndia
, play 02:57
Will Ishant be first choice at his home ground?

A decade after his big entrance, Ishant Sharma is still figuring out the right length to bowl in a bid to take more Test wickets

, play 00:49
Virat Kohli piles on the double hundreds

A look at the records Virat Kohli is piling up with more and more double-centuries

, play 00:54
Rahul, Shikhar and I are very open with each other - Vijay

M Vijay talks of the rapport he shares with fellow openers KL Rahul and Shikhar Dhawan in the context of the competition for the two spots

, play 01:07
Delhi wicket nothing like South Africa - Chandimal

The SL captain says that while the Kolkata wicket did resemble South African pitches, the surfaces in Nagpur, and now Delhi, look far from it

, play 01:57
Dasgupta: Unfortunate for KL Rahul to miss out

Deep Dasgupta believes the inclusion of Shikhar Dhawan and Mohammed Shami in the India XI was along expected lines

, play 01:04
Kohli will cross many more milestones - Dasgupta

The India captain went past 5000 runs in only his 63rd Test

, play 02:12
Chopra: Vijay showed he's India's No. 1 opener

Aakash Chopra discusses India's likely XI when they travel to South Africa

, play 00:57
Vijay is India's no.1 opener - Deep

Former India wicketkeeper Deep Dasgupta speaks on M Vijay's successful comeback to the Test side after an injury

, play 02:03
Chopra: Mathews wicket off no-ball may have cost SL the Test

The man who made a century in the first innings was dismissed for 1 in the second, after Ravindra Jadeja had overstepped

, play 00:39
'I won't deny that there is pollution' - Dhawan

India opener Shikhar Dhawan admitted conditions in Delhi were tough, but said it is a player's duty to push through it

Match Coverage

All Match News

  • India's record streak of nine consecutive series wins

    Their 1-0 series win over Sri Lanka helped India match Australia's record of nine consecutive series wins from 2005-08, while Dhananjaya de Silva surpassed Viv Richards to score the highest fourth-innings score by a visiting batsman in India

  • India aware of issues in slip cordon - Pujara

    With fitness being on agenda, India players have become better athletes, their ground fielding has improved, but nobody from the camp has been able to say why the same fielders seem to resemble non-stick cookware at slips

  • Dhananjaya, Roshen deny India 2-0

    Dhananjaya de Silva and the debutant Roshen Silva were Sri Lanka's fifth-day heroes as they fought their way to a drawn third Test

  • Dhananjaya and a new dawn for Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka dropped him after throwing him in the firing line in South Africa. He has returned with the highest fourth-innings score by a visiting batsman in India. Young talents like that need better nurturing

  • SL's struggles with Delhi air may be genuine - Dhawan

    After having seen his team-mate Shami vomit on the field, the India opener was more understanding of the visitors' discomfort, but he only went as far as giving them a benefit of doubt

Dhananjaya fights

109*

Previous highest score by visiting batsmen when chasing in India, by Viv Richards at Kotla in 1987. Dhananjaya de Silva has gone past that in this chase.

Kohli's series

610

Runs by Kohli in this series, the fourth-most for any batsman in a three-match Test series.

Fails again

17

Runs accumulated by Ajinkya Rahane in this series, in 5 innings. His scores: 4, 0, 2, 1, 10.

Chandimal's best

162*

Previous highest score for Dinesh Chandimal in Test, that came against India in Galle in 2015. He's better it with 164 in this game.

Record ten

0

No. of SL batsmen to score 10 Test centuries in fewer innings than Chandimal who has done it in 80 innings. Thilan Samaraweera, who took 84 innings, was the previous quickest for SL.

A long show

476

Balls faced by Mathews and Chandimal in this partnership - the most by any visiting pair in India since 2010. Kallis and Amla had batted 641 balls in Nagpur in Feb 2010.

Record double

6

No. of double-centuries by Virat Kohli as captain - the most. He went past Brian Lara's five 200s as captain. All other Indian captains combined have only four 200s.

No. 20 for Kohli

4

Number of batsmen to score 20 Test centuries in fewer innings than Kohli who has got there in his 105th innings. Bradman (55), Gavaskar (93), Hayden (95) and S Smith (99) are the only ones ahead.

Kohli's 5000

3

No. of India batsmen to get to 5000 Test runs in fewer inns than Kohli who has taken 105 inns. Gavaskar (95), Sehwag (99) and Tendulkar (103) are the three ahead of Kohli.

Perera's milestone

25

No. of Tests taken by Dilruwan Perera to take 100 wickets - the fastest among 6 Sri Lanka bowlers to the milestone. Muralitharan was the previous fastest in 27 matches.

Victorious venue

11-0

India's win-loss record in last 12 Tests at Delhi, before this. The last time they lost there was in 1987 to West Indies.