da dobrowin： Stats highlights from the final day of the final Test between Sri Lanka and Australia in Colombo

da dobrowin： Bharath Seervi17-Aug-20160:58

By the numbers: Herath demolishes Australia

3 Consecutive whitewashes suffered by Australia in Asia. They had lost to India 0-4 in 2012-13 and to Pakistan 0-2 in 2014-15 before this 0-3 defeat to Sri Lanka. This is their ninth loss on the trot in the subcontinent since 2013, and 13th in 18 Tests in the region since 2008.5 Australian whitewashes in a series consisting of three or more Tests. They had gone 31 years without the ignominy, since being swept aside by Pakistan in 1982-83, but have been blanked twice in the 2010s.70 Wickets taken by left-arm bowlers in this series, easily the most in a series comprising three or fewer matches. Herath’s 28 and Mitchell Starc’s 24 contributed to most of those wickets.11/212 Previous best match figures by a Sri Lankan in a Test against Australia – Muttiah Muralitharan in Galle in 2003-04. Rangana Herath overtook him with 13 for 145 in this match. His figures are also the fifth-best for a Sri Lankan in Tests.28 wickets by Rangana Herath are the joint third-most by any bowler in a 3-match Test series against Australia•ESPNcricinfo Ltd2 Bowlers with more wickets in a three-match series against Australia than Herath’s 28 in this series. Richard Hadlee claimed 33 wickets in 1985-86 and Harbhajan Singh took 32 in 2000-01. Muralitharan also took 28 wickets in 2003-04. Herath’s tally is the joint second-most by a Sri Lanka bowler in any series.31 Herath’s bowling strike rate in this series – the best for any spinner with 15 or more wickets in a Test series against Australia in 100 years. Only two men – Bobby Peel and Colin Blythe of England – have performed at a better strike rate, both before World War I.136 Balls in which Australia lost all 10 wickets in the second innings at the SSC – their third-worst collapse in Tests (where ball-by-ball data is available). Their ten wickets had fallen in 106 balls in Cape Town in 2011-12 and in 109 balls in Nottingham in 2015.8 Five-wicket hauls for Herath in the fourth-innings of Tests – most by any bowler. He went past Muralitharan and Shane Warner, who had seven each.0 Instances of Australia’s Nos. 3 to 7 being dismissed for single-digit scores in an innings against any team other than England and South Africa prior to the Colombo Test. This was the 12th such instance; eight had come against England and three against South Africa.2004 The last time a bowler took two six-wicket hauls in a Test against Australia. Herath followed Anil Kumble’s feat in Chennai with his 6 for 81 in the first innings and 7 for 64 in the second innings in Colombo.6 Teams against whom Herath has 10-wicket hauls. Only Muralitharan has more, one against each of the nine Test teams. Hadlee, Imran Khan and Kumble have 10-fors against five teams. Herath hasn’t taken more than one 10-wicket haul against any team.24 Wickets for Starc in this series, nearly twice the number of wickets taken by all other fast bowlers combined. The other quicks accounted for 13 wickets at an average of 38.61, compared to Starc’s 24 at just 15.16. The difference of 11 wickets between Starc and the other seamers in this series is the most in any series, beating Hadlee’s difference of six wickets – 33 to 27 – in Australia in 1985-86.