India and Sri Lanka at Kanpur : Fourth day's highlights
Fourth day’s highlights
R Dravid pouched his 90th catch on home soil when he caught AD Matthews of Zaheer Khan for 15 in Sri Lanka’s second innings. Dravid became the sixth fieldsman to pouch 90 plus catches on home soil. Others are – MA Taylor {97}, SP Fleming {94}, BC Lara {94}, DPMD Jayawardene {92} and JH Kallis {92}. Dravid went past RT Ponting and ME Waugh who have pouched 89 catches on home soil
India won its 100th test match when it trounced Sri Lanka by an innings and 144 runs. The progressive milestones in terms of 25 tests are furnished in the following table
| Test | Win | Margin | Opp | Ground | Month | Year |
| 25 | 001st | Inns & 008 runs | Eng | Chennai | Feb | 1952 |
| 147 | 025th | 216 runs | NZl | Chennai | Nov | 1976 |
| 287 | 050th | Inns & 119 runs | Srl | Lucknow | Jan | 1994 |
| 371 | 075th | 004 wkts | Aus | Adelaide | Dec | 2003 |
| 434 | 100th | Inns & 144 runs | Srl | Kanpur | Nov | 2009 |
India’s innings win over Sri Lanka in this test provides the 26th occasion of India winning a test by an innings margin and 19th innings in on home soil. This win also represents the seventh innings win against Sri Lanka.
TT Samaraweera and BAW Mendis added 73 runs for the ninth wicket which represent the record stand by Sri Lankan batsmen against India. The previous best was 60 runs between HP Tilakaratne and MAWR Madurasinghe at Chandigarh in Nov 90.