HMRKB Herath scored 67 while batting at number nine in Sri Lanka’s first innings against India in the ongoing test at Kolkata to provide the tenth occasion of a Sri Lankan batsman scoring a fifty in a test innings. All such occasions are tabulated below. It also provides the 263^rd occasion of a batsman scoring a fifty in a test innings while batting at number nine which includes 17 occasions of a batsman scoring a century.

No	Pos	Player	Runs	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	9	GF Labrooy	70*	1	v New Zealand	Auckland	01 Mar 1991
2	9	GP Wickramasinghe	51	4	v South Africa	Cape Town	19 Mar 1998
3	9	WPUJC Vaas	54	1	v South Africa	Galle	20 Jul 2000
4	9	M Muralitharan	67	3	v India	Kandy	22 Aug 2001
5	9	UDU Chandana	92	1	v Zimbabwe	Galle	12 Jan 2002
6	9	WPUJC Vaas	69	1	v South Africa	Galle	04 Aug 2004
7	9	WPUJC Vaas	50*	3	v England	Lord’s	11 May 2006
8	9	WPUJC Vaas	64	2	v South Africa	Col-PSS	04 Aug 2006
9	9	SL Malinga	64	1	v India	Galle	18 Jul 2010
10	9	HMRKB Herath	67	2	v India	Kolkata	16 Nov 2017

It also provides the third such occasion against India and the first such occasion against Sri Lanka against India in India. All the three occasions are listed below.

No	Pos	Player	Runs	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	9	M Muralitharan	67	3	v India	Kandy	22 Aug 2001
2	9	SL Malinga	64	1	v India	Galle	18 Jul 2010
3	9	HMRKB Herath	67	2	v India	Kolkata	16 Nov 2017

M Muralitharan and HMRKB Herath share the record for scoring most runs against India while batting at number nine. Both the batsmen have scored an identical 67 runs.

No	Pos	Player	Runs	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	9	M Muralitharan	67	3	v India	Kandy	22 Aug 2001
2	9	HMRKB Herath	67	2	v India	Kolkata	16 Nov 2017