BKG Mendis of Sri Lanka collected a pair against South Africa in the just concluded test at Johannesburg to provide the 575^th occasion of a batsman collecting a pair in the annals of test cricket. It also provides the 42nd occasion of a Sri Lankan batsman undergoing such ignominy. All such occasions are tabulated below.

No	Player	FI	SI	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	BR Jurangpathy	0	0	Ind	Nagpur	27 Dec 1986
2	RG de Alwis	0	0	Ind	Cuttack	04 Jan 1987
3	MS Atapattu	0	0	Ind	Chandigarh	23 Nov 1990
4	GF Labrooy	0	0	Ind	Chandigarh	23 Nov 1990
5	RJ Ratnayake	0	0	Ind	Chandigarh	23 Nov 1990
6	A Ranatunga	0	0	Pak	Sialkot	12 Dec 1991
7	SD Anurasiri	0	0	Pak	Faisalabad	02 Jan 1992
8	MS Atapattu	0	0	Ind	Ahmedabad	08 Feb 1994
9	CI Dunusinghe	0	0	Pak	Peshawar	08 Sep 1995
10	GP Wickramasinghe	0	0	Pak	Rawalpindi	26 Feb 2000
11	GP Wickramasinghe	0	0	Pak	Karachi	12 Mar 2000
12	HMRKB Herath	0	0	Pak	Galle	21 Jun 2000
13	M Muralitharan	0	0	SAF	Kandy	30 Jul 2000
14	DNT Zoysa	0	0	Eng	Kandy	07 Mar 2001
15	RP Arnold	0	0	Eng	Col-SSC	15 Mar 2001
16	MS Atapattu	0	0	Eng	Col-SSC	15 Mar 2001
17	WPUJC Vaas	0	0	Win	Kandy	21 Nov 2001
18	RP Arnold	0	0	SAF	Jo’burg	08 Nov 2002
19	KHRK Fernando	0	0	SAF	Jo’burg	08 Nov 2002
20	M Muralitharan	0	0	Aus	Galle	08 Mar 2004
21	SL Malinga	0	0	Aus	Darwin	01 Jul 2004
22	MS Atapattu	0	0	Pak	Faisalabad	20 Oct 2004
23	WU Tharanga	0	0	Eng	Birmingham	25 May 2006
24	LPC Silva	0	0	NZl	Christchurch	07 Dec 2006
25	SL Malinga	0	0	NZl	Wellington	15 Dec 2006
26	M Muralitharan	0	0	NZl	Wellington	15 Dec 2006
27	H Jayawardene	0	0	Aus	Hobart	16 Nov 2007
28	M Muralitharan	0	0	Ind	Galle	31 Jul 2008
29	H Jayawardene	0	0	Aus	Galle	31 Aug 2011
30	HMRKB Herath	0	0	Pak	Sharjah	16 Jan 2014
31	KTGD Prasad	0	0	Eng	Leeds	20 Jun 2014
32	HDRL Thirimanne	0	0	Eng	Leeds	20 Jun 2014
33	MDK Perera	0	0	SAF	Galle	16 Jul 2014
34	MDK Perera	0	0	Pak	Col-SSC	14 Aug 2014
35	KTGD Prasad	0	0	Pak	Pallekele	03 Jul 2015
36	N Pradeep	0	0	Win	Col-PSS	22 Oct 2015
37	N Pradeep	0	0	Pak	Abu Dhabi	28 Sep 2017
38	N Pradeep	0	0	Pak	Dub-DSC	06 Oct 2017
39	MVT Fernando	0	0	Aus	Canberra	01 Feb 2019
40	MDKJ Perera	0	0	NZl	Col-PSS	22 Aug 2019
41	MVT Fernando	0	0	SAF	Centurion	26 Dec 2020
42	BKG Mendis	0	0	SAF	Jo’burg	03 Jan 2021

It also provides the sixth occasion of a Sri Lankan batsman collecting a pair against South Africa. All such occasions are tabulated below.

No	Player	FI	SI	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	M Muralitharan	0	0	SAF	Kandy	30 Jul 2000
2	RP Arnold	0	0	SAF	Jo’burg	08 Nov 2002
3	KHRK Fernando	0	0	SAF	Jo’burg	08 Nov 2002
4	MDK Perera	0	0	SAF	Galle	16 Jul 2014
5	MVT Fernando	0	0	SAF	Centurion	26 Dec 2020
6	BKG Mendis	0	0	SAF	Jo’burg	03 Jan 2021