RG Sharma became the 35^th captain to lead India in tests. He also became the 344^th captain to lead a team in the annals of test cricket. RG Sharma became the eleventh Indian captain to lead against Sri Lanka and also became the 84th captain to lead against Sri Lanka in tests.

This game marks V Kohli’s 100^th test. He became the 71^st cricketer to appear in 100 plus tests and also twelfth Indian cricketer to achieve the feat. The other eleven Indian cricketers are listed below

No	Player	Team	Span	Mat	Inns
1	SR Tendulkar	Ind	1989-2013	200	329
2	R Dravid	Ind	1996-2012	164	286
3	VVS Laxman	Ind	1996-2012	134	225
4	A Kumble	Ind	1990-2008	132	173
5	N Kapil Dev	Ind	1978-1994	131	184
6	SM Gavaskar	Ind	1971-1987	125	214
7	DB Vengsarkar	Ind	1976-1992	116	185
8	SC Ganguly	Ind	1996-2008	113	188
9	I Sharma	Ind	2007-2021	105	142
10	V Sehwag	Ind	2001-2013	104	180
11	Harbhajan Singh	Ind	1998-2015	103	145

Sri Lanka will be playing its 300^th test when it takes on India at Mohali today. Sri Lanka will become the eighth team to play 300 plus tests in the annals of test cricket. The performance of these eight teams is furnished below.

No	Team	Span	Mat	Won	Lost	T	Draw
1	England	1877-2022	1045	378	315	0	352
2	Australia	1877-2022	839	398	226	2	213
3	India	1932-2022	560	166	173	1	220
4	West Indies	1928-2021	560	178	204	1	177
5	New Zealand	1930-2022	455	109	178	0	168
6	South Africa	1889-2022	450	172	154	0	124
7	Pakistan	1952-2021	441	145	134	0	162
8	Sri Lanka	1982-2021	299	095	113	0	091

The following table furnishes the performance of Sri Lanka in its 299 tests against each opposition.

No	Opposition	Span	M	W	L	T	D
1	Pakistan	1982-2019	55	16	20	0	19
2	India	1982-2017	44	07	20	0	17
3	England	1982-2021	36	08	17	0	11
4	New Zealand	1983-2019	36	09	16	0	11
5	Australia	1983-2019	31	04	19	0	08
6	South Africa	1993-2021	31	09	16	0	06
7	West Indies	1993-2021	24	11	04	0	09
8	Bangladesh	2001-2021	22	17	01	0	04
9	Zimbabwe	1994-2020	20	14	00	0	06

India won the toss in this test and opted to bat first to provide the 222^nd occasion of India doing so in tests. It also provides the fifth occasion of India doing so against Sri Lanka in tests.

RG Sharma-MA Agarwal posted 52 runs partnership for the first wicket in first innings of this test to provide the 25^th occasion of Indian batsmen posting a fifty plus runs partnership for the first wicket in a test innings against Sri Lanka

RG Sharma became India’s ninth captain opener in tests

No	Player	M	I	NO	Runs	HS	C	HC	0
1	P Roy	1	2	0	15	15	0	0	1
2	Contractor	12	18	0	525	92	0	4	0
3	SM Gavaskar	46	73	5	3445	205	11	14	2
4	K Srikkanth	4	7	0	97	36	0	0	1
5	Tendulkar	1	1	0	15	15	0	0	0
6	R Dravid	4	6	2	265	128*	2	0	0
7	V Sehwag	4	8	0	253	62	0	2	1
8	KL Rahul	1	2	0	58	50	0	1	0
9	RG Sharma	1	1	0	29	29	0	0	0

He also became India’s fourth captain opener against Sri Lanka in tests

No	Player	M	I	NO	Runs	HS	C	HC	0
1	SM Gavaskar	1	1	0	155	155	1	0	0
2	R Dravid	1	1	0	24	24	0	0	0
3	V Sehwag	1	2	0	20	20	0	0	1
4	RG Sharma	1	1	0	29	29	0	0	0

V Kohli is playing this test under third captain excluding himself. He has played 30 tests under MS Dhoni and one test under V Sehwag. He has led India in 68 tests.  Thus this test is his 32^nd test when he is not captaining India.

V Kohli completed 8000 runs of his test career when he was on 38 during his knock of 45 in India’s first innings. At the end of the first day of this test, his run aggregate read 8007. He became the sixth Indian batsman to aggregate 8000 plus runs in tests.

No	Player	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	C	HC
1	Tendulkar	200	329	33	15921	248*	51	68
2	R Dravid	163	284	32	13265	270	36	63
3	Gavaskar	125	214	16	10122	236*	34	45
4	VVS Laxman	134	225	34	08781	281	17	56
5	V Sehwag	103	178	06	08503	319	23	31
6	V Kohli	100	169	10	08007	254*	27	28

V Kohli became the 32^nd batsman in the annals of test cricket to score 8000 plus runs. He also became the 31^st batsman in the annals of test cricket to appear in 100 plus tests and aggregate 8000 runs. GS Sobers is the only batsman who has not played 100 tests but has an aggregate of 8000 plus runs. He has scored 8032 runs in 93 tests.

RR Pant scored 96 in this test to provide the 125^th occasion of an Indian batsman scoring a ninety in a test innings. It also provides the 13^th occasion of an Indian batsman scoring a ninety in a test innings against Sri Lanka.

RR Pant scored 96 in this test to provide the 12^th occasion of an Indian wicket keeper batsman scoring a ninety in a test innings.

No	Player	Runs	I	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	FM Engineer	90	1	NZl	Chennai	27 Feb 1965
2	KD Karthik	93	3	Pak	Kolkata	16 Mar 2005
3	MS Dhoni	92	1	Eng	The Oval	09 Aug 2007
4	MS Dhoni	92	1	Aus	Mohali	17 Oct 2008
5	MS Dhoni	98	2	NZl	Nagpur	20 Nov 2010
6	MS Dhoni	90	3	SAF	Centurion	16 Dec 2010
7	MS Dhoni	99	2	Eng	Nagpur	13 Dec 2012
8	RR Pant	92	1	Win	Rajkot	04 Oct 2018
9	RR Pant	92	2	Win	Hyd-RGS	12 Oct 2018
10	RR Pant	97	4	Aus	Sydney	07 Jan 2021
11	RR Pant	91	2	Eng	Chennai	05 Feb 2021
12	RR Pant	96	1	Srl	Mohali	04 Mar 2022

It also provides the first occasion of an Indian wicket keeper batsman scoring a ninety in a test innings against Sri Lanka.

RR Pant’s 96 in this test provide his fifth ninety as a wicket keeper batsman. He now shares the record for most nineties by an Indian wicket keeper batsman in a test innings with MS Dhoni. MS Dhoni has also scored five nineties.

No	Player	Runs	I	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	MS Dhoni	92	1	Eng	The Oval	09 Aug 2007
2	MS Dhoni	92	1	Aus	Mohali	17 Oct 2008
3	MS Dhoni	98	2	NZl	Nagpur	20 Nov 2010
4	MS Dhoni	90	3	SAF	Centurion	16 Dec 2010
5	MS Dhoni	99	2	Eng	Nagpur	13 Dec 2012
1	RR Pant	92	1	Win	Rajkot	04 Oct 2018
2	RR Pant	92	2	Win	Hyd-RGS	12 Oct 2018
3	RR Pant	97	4	Aus	Sydney	07 Jan 2021
4	RR Pant	91	2	Eng	Chennai	05 Feb 2021
5	RR Pant	96	1	Srl	Mohali	04 Mar 2022

RR Pant’s 96 in this test provide the 80^th occasion of a wicket keeper batsman scoring a ninety in a test innings in the annals of test cricket. It also provides the seventh occasion of a wicket keeper batsman scoring a ninety in a test innings in against Sri Lanka in the annals of test cricket.

RR Pant-RA Jadeja posted a partnership of 104 runs for the sixth wicket in this test to provide the 64^th occasion of Indian batsmen posting a three figure partnership against Sri Lanka in a test innings. It also provides the fifth occasion of Indian batsmen posting a three figure partnership against Sri Lanka in a test innings for the sixth wicket

No	Partners	W	Runs	I	Ground	Date
1	Azharuddin, Kapil Dev	6	272	2	Kanpur	17.12.96
2	Kapil Dev, Vengsarkar	6	111	1	Cuttack	04.01.87
3	SC Ganguly, A Kumble	6	159	1	Nagpur	26.11.97
4	MS Dhoni, R Dravid	6	224	1	Ahm’bad	16.11.09
5	RA Jadeja, RR Pant	6	104	1	Mohali	04.03.22

RR Pant-RA Jadeja posted a partnership of 104 runs for the sixth wicket in this test to provide the 599th occasion of Indian batsmen posting a three figure partnership in a test innings. It also provides the 47th occasion of Indian batsmen posting a three figure partnership in a test innings for the sixth wicket

GH Vihari scored 58 in this test to provide his sixth test fifty. All his six fifties are tabulated below. It also represents his first fifty on home soil.

No	Runs	I	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	56	2	Eng	The Oval	07 Sep 2018
2	93	3	Win	N Sound	22 Aug 2019
3	111	1	Win	Kingston	30 Aug 2019
4	53*	3	Win	Kingston	30 Aug 2019
5	55	1	NZl	Ch’church	29 Feb 2020
6	58	1	Srl	Mohali	04 Mar 2022