Seventy plus test wickets on a single ground
HMRKB Herath with his 13 wickets at Col-SSC against Australia has now 73 wickets at Col-SSC and joined the list of bowlers who have captured 70 plus wickets at a Single ground. There are eleven occasions of bowlers accomplishing the feat of capturing 70 plus wickets at a single ground. All such occasions are listed below
| No | Player | Team | M | Balls | Runs | W | Ave | 5 | 10 | Ground |
| 1 | M Muralitharan | Srl | 24 | 8837 | 3435 | 166 | 20.69 | 14 | 4 | Col-SSC |
| 2 | M Muralitharan | Srl | 16 | 5086 | 1875 | 117 | 16.02 | 11 | 5 | Kandy |
| 3 | M Muralitharan | Srl | 15 | 5727 | 2054 | 111 | 18.50 | 11 | 4 | Galle |
| 4 | HMRKB Herath | Srl | 15 | 4487 | 2006 | 84 | 23.88 | 8 | 3 | Galle |
| 5 | HH Streak | Zim | 19 | 4538 | 1920 | 83 | 23.13 | 3 | 0 | Harare |
| 6 | DK Lillee | Aus | 14 | 3833 | 1798 | 82 | 21.92 | 7 | 4 | Melbourne |
| 7 | WPUJC Vaas | Srl | 21 | 4514 | 2004 | 80 | 25.05 | 4 | 1 | Col-SSC |
| 8 | JM Anderson | Eng | 19 | 4746 | 2191 | 78 | 28.08 | 4 | 0 | Lord’s |
| 9 | RJ Hadlee | NZl | 14 | 3679 | 1635 | 76 | 21.51 | 6 | 0 | Christchurch |
| 10 | HMRKB Herath | Srl | 12 | 3979 | 1857 | 73 | 25.43 | 8 | 2 | Col-SSC |
| 11 | SCJ Broad | Eng | 17 | 4026 | 2090 | 73 | 28.63 | 2 | 1 | Lord’s |
HMRKB Herath became the second bowler in the annals of test cricket to have an aggregate of 70 plus wickets on two or more specific grounds – 84 wickets at Galle and 73 wkts at Col-SSC. M Muralitharan is the other bowler to accomplish such a feat – 166 at Col-SSC, 117 wkts at Kandy and 111 wkts at Galle. In fact M Muralitharan is the only bowler to capture 100 plus wickets at three specific grounds