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.  

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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.