India won the toss and elected to bat first in this test to provide the 223^rd occasion of India doing so. It also provides the 24th occasion of India doing so against Sri Lanka.

India won the toss and elected to bat first in this test to provide the 223^rd occasion of India doing so. It also provides the 24th occasion of India doing so against Sri Lanka.

India won the toss and elected to bat first in this test to provide the 16^th occasion of team doing so in a pink ball test. It also provides the second occasion of India doing so in a pink ball test. Prior to this, India had won the toss and elected to bat in a pink ball test at Adelaide in Dec 2020

MA Agarwal was dismissed run out for 4 in this test to provide the 57th occasion of an Indian opening batsman dismissed run out in an innings. It also provide the third occasion of an Indian opening batsman dismissed run out in an innings against Sri Lanka

MA Agarwal was dismissed run out for 4 in this test to provide the seventh occasion of an opening batsman dismissed run out in an innings in a pink ball test. It also provide the first occasion of an Indian opening batsman dismissed run out in an innings in a pink ball test.

RG Sharma became the first captain to open a team’s innings in a Pink ball test. RG Sharma-FDM Karunaratne became the first rival captains who opened the innings for their respective teams in a pink ball test.

SS Iyer was dismissed stumped for 92 in India’s innings to provide the 29^th occasion of a batsman dismissed stumped for nineties in an innings in the annals of test cricket. It also provides the fourth occasion of an Indian batsman dismissed stumped for nineties in an innings. All such four occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	R	I	Opp	Ground	Mon/Year
1	Vengsarkar	96	2	Pak	Chennai	Feb 1987
2	Tendulkar	90	2	Eng	Bengaluru	Dec 2001
3	V Sehwag	99	2	Srl	Col-SSC	Jul 2010
4	SS Iyer	92	1	Srl	Bengaluru	Mar 2022

It also provides the second occasion of an Indian batsman dismissed stumped for nineties in a test at Bangalore. SR Tendulkar was the other batsman to be dismissed stumped for nineties at Bangalore. He was dismissed stumped for 90 against England at Bangalore in Dec 2001.

SS Iyer became the eighth Indian batsman to be dismissed for 90s in a test at Bangalore. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	R	I	Opp	Ground	Mon/Year
1	Gavaskar	96	4	Pak	Bengaluru	Mar 1987
2	NS Sidhu	99	1	Srl	Bengaluru	Jan 1994
3	Tendulkar	96	1	Srl	Bengaluru	Jan 1994
4	Tendulkar	90	2	Eng	Bengaluru	Dec 2001
5	Ganguly	91	3	Pak	Bengaluru	Dec 2007
6	KL Rahul	90	1	Aus	Bengaluru	Mar 2017
7	CA Pujara	92	3	Aus	Bengaluru	Mar 2017
8	SS Iyer	92	1	Srl	Bengaluru	Mar 2022

SS Iyer became the third Indian batsman to be dismissed for 90s in a test at Bangalore against Sri Lanka. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	R	I	Opp	Ground	Mon/Year
1	NS Sidhu	99	1	Srl	Bengaluru	Jan 1994
2	Tendulkar	96	1	Srl	Bengaluru	Jan 1994
3	SS Iyer	92	1	Srl	Bengaluru	Mar 2022

SS Iyer’s dismissal for 92 in India’s innings provides the 126^th occasion of an Indian batsman dismissed for nineties in an innings. It also provides the 14^th occasion of an Indian batsman dismissed for nineties in an innings against Sri Lanka.

SS Iyer’s dismissal for 92 in India’s innings provides the fifth occasion of an batsman dismissed for nineties in an innings in Pink Ball test. It also provides the first occasion of an Indian batsman dismissed for nineties in an innings in a Pink Ball test.

No	Player	R	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Mon/Year
1	Sami Aslam	90	1	Pak	Win	Dub-DSC	Oct 2016
2	Babar Azam	97	2	Pak	Aus	Adelaide	Nov 2019
3	DA Warner	95	1	Aus	Eng	Adelaide	Dec 2021
4	SPD Smith	93	1	Aus	Eng	Adelaide	Dec 2021
5	SS Iyer	92	1	Ind	Srl	Bengaluru	Mar 2022

The overall aggregate of boundary sixes scored in test at Bengaluru read 143 at the end of the first day. Indian batsmen have scored 79 boundary sixes while visiting batsmen have scored 64 boundary sixes.

SS Iyer’s 92 in this test represent the 134^th fifty scored by batsmen at Bangalore. Indian batsmen have scored 69^th fifty while visiting batsmen have scored 65 fifties.

SS Iyer’s 92 in this test represent the 102nd half century scored by batsmen at Bangalore. Indian batsmen have scored 52 half centuries while visiting batsmen have scored 50 fifties.

RG Sharma became the third Indian captain to score boundary sixes at Bengaluru. Others are MS Dhoni {04} and M Azharuddin {01}. A total number of six boundary sixes have been scored by Indian captains as at the end of the first day’s play in this test. Visiting captains have scored 13 boundary sixes and the total number of boundary sixes scored by captains at Bengaluru read 19.

RG Sharma’s lone six in India’s innings fetched a total number of 21 boundary sixes by Indian opening batsmen at Bengaluru. The total number of boundary sixes by opening batsmen read 36 at the end of the first day’s play which includes 15 boundary sixes by visiting opening batsmen.