V Kohli {78} and AD Mathews {102} scored fifties for India and Sri Lanka respectively in the ongoing second test to provide the eighth occasion of rival captains scoring fifties  in a test in Sri Lanka-India test series.   All such occasions are listed below

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	LRD Mendis	51	1	Srl	Ind	Col-PSS	06 Sep 1985
	N Kapil Dev	78	4	Ind	Srl	Col-PSS	06 Sep 1985
2	SR Tendulkar	143	1	Ind	Srl	Col-RPS	02 Aug 1997
	A Ranatunga	86	2	Srl	Ind	Col-RPS	02 Aug 1997
3	M Azharuddin	87	1	Ind	Srl	Col-SSC	24 Feb 1999
	A Ranatunga	66	2	Srl	Ind	Col-SSC	24 Feb 1999
4	MS Atapattu	88	2	Srl	Ind	Delhi	10 Dec 2005
	R Dravid	53	3	Ind	Srl	Delhi	10 Dec 2005
	MS Atapattu	67	4	Srl`	Ind	Delhi	10 Dec 2005
5	MS Dhoni	100*	2	Ind	Srl	Mum-BS	02 Dec 2009
	KC Sangakkara	137	3	Srl	Ind	Mum-BS	02 Dec 2009
6	KC Sangakkara	219	1	Srl	Ind	Col-SSC	26 Jul 2010
	MS Dhoni	76	2	Ind	Srl	Col-SSC	26 Jul 2010
7	AD Mathews	64	1	Srl	Ind	Galle	12 Aug 2015
	V Kohli	103	2	Ind	Srl	Galle	12 Aug 2015
8	V Kohli	78	1	Ind	Srl	Col-PSS	20 Aug 2015
	AD Mathews	102	2	Srl	Ind	Col-PSS	20 Aug 2015

V Kohli and AD Mathews provide the only pair of rival captains to score fifties in consecutive tests of a series between Sri Lanka and India.  They had scored fifties at Galle and now at Col-PSS. The performance in these two occasions is listed below

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	AD Mathews	64	1	Srl	Ind	Galle	12 Aug 2015
	V Kohli	103	2	Ind	Srl	Galle	12 Aug 2015
2	V Kohli	78	1	Ind	Srl	Col-PSS	20 Aug 2015
	AD Mathews	102	2	Srl	Ind	Col-PSS	20 Aug 2015