Highlights from North Sound, where Sri Lanka and the West Indies played a second straight draw
0-0 Test series score between West Indies and Sri Lanka, the first Test series in nearly six years to end in a 0-0 draw. The two-match test series between Bangladesh and South Africa in 2015 was the last to end 0-0. Only 309.1 overs of play took place during that series played during the monsoon season.
813 Minutes beaten by Kraigg Brathwaite in the second Test against Sri Lanka, the most in a Test for the West Indies. The century of Brathwaite’s first inning came in at 514 minutes, while his 85 in the second trial lasted 299 minutes. Brathwaite faced 507 balls in this game, the most combined by a West Indian in a test match since Brian Lara’s 400 * of 582 balls against England in 2004.
one Brathwaite’s number of centuries in nine trials as captain. Brathwaite was just two fifties in 16 test innings while leading the West Indies before the second game. The 126-run knock is also his first century in 38 test innings.
4 Player of the Series Awards for Sri Lankan pacemakers specializing in test cricket, including Suranga Lakmal against West Indies Chaminda Vaas won it twice, while Nuwan Kulasekara, against Pakistan in 2009, was the last to win the award.
4 Test matches played by the West Indies in 2021; two against Bangladesh (2-0) and two against Sri Lanka (0-0). It is the first instance for the West Indies since 2013 in which there were three or more successive Tests without a loss.
two Century partnerships for Dimuth Karunaratne and Lahiru Thirimanne in the fourth inning, the most per pair for Sri Lanka in Testing. Only one opening pair has more than two centuries in the fourth inning in Test history: four from Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes.
8 Test series of more than two in which both teams lined up the same 11 players in all matches, prior to the West Indies vs Sri Lanka series. Seven of the previous eight series were two-game test series, while the three-game series between England and India in 2007 was the other.
Sampath Bandarupalli is a statistician at ESPNcricinfo
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