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Statistical highlights at the end of fourth day's play in the third and final cricket Test between India and Sri Lanka [Images] in Colombo on Monday.
# India's total of 268 is their highest second innings total at Colombo (PSS), bettering their 198 in September 1985.
# Michael Vandort could not get going in the Test series, averaging 7.80 - 39 runs in five innings.
# Ajantha Mendis [Images] was the leading wicket-taker in the rubber with 26 wickets at 18.38 runs apiece, including two instances of five wickets or more in aninnings and one instance of ten wickets in a Test match. He has rightly been adjudged the Player of the Series.
# Mahela Jayawardene [Images] recorded his 32nd half-century in Test Cricket - his seventh against India.
# Mahela Jayawardene, with 279 runs at an average of 69.75 was the leading run-getter for Sri Lanka in the rubber.
# Warnapura posted his fourth fifty - his second against India.
# Sangakkara's 9th Man of the Match award was his first against India.
# Sri Lanka, with their eight-wicket win, have now won four Tests in a row at Colombo, PSS.
# Sri Lanka's aforesaid win is their second over India in three Tests at Colombo, PSS.
# Sri Lanka (2-1), for the first time, have won successive Test series against India in Sri Lanka. They had won by a similar margin in 2001.
# India's eight-wicket defeat at Colombo (PSS) is their fifth in 15 Tests against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka (Won 3 and Drawn 7).
# Rahul Dravid [Images] (68) recorded his first fifty in ten innings. Dravid's said knock is his 30th fifty on foreign soil.
# Dravid's 8th fifty against Sri Lanka is his 52nd in Tests.
# VVS Laxman became the eighth batsman to amass 6,000 runs (ave.43.79) in Test Cricket. He is the eighth Indian batsman to achieve the distinction, joining Sachin Tendulkar [Images] (11877), Rahul Dravid (10246), Sunil Gavaskar [Images] (10122), Sourav Ganguly [Images] (6888), Dilip Vengsarkar (6868), Mohammad Azharuddin (6215) and Gundappa Viswanath(6080).
# VVS Laxman's 35th Test fifty is his third against Sri Lanka. Laxman's unbeaten innings of 61 is his 20th fifty away from home.
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