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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry L" data-source="post: 17269613" data-attributes="member: 260809">● 8 statistics of India-Sri Lanka since 2008   #1. India and Sri Lankahave played each other49 times since January  2008. That is the mostencounters teams havehad against each otherin ODIs since then.Australia and Englandare next on the list asthey have played 34ODIs. Pakistan and SriLanka, two teams whosupposedly play eachother many times, havefaced off 32 times since2008.      #2. India have played 191ODIs since January2008. Which means that25.65 percent of theirODIs since then havecome against Sri Lanka.India have won 29 ofthose encounters.     #3. Sri Lanka have played187 ODIs since January2008. That too is apercentage of 25.65 i.e.the no of games againstIndia. Sri Lanka havewon 17 of thoseencounters.     #4. Virat Kohli made hisODI debut during thetour to Sri Lanka in2008. He has played 35out of his 141 ODIsagainst Sri Lanka andhas scored 1527 of his5879 runs against them.Out of his 20 tons, fivehave come against SriLanka. Thus, he hasscored 26 percent of hisruns and 25 percent ofhis tons against SriLanka. Interestingly, heis yet to play a Testmatch against Sri Lanka.     #5. Though IshantSharma hasn’t been afixture in the Indianone-day side, he hashad his fair share ofsuccess against SriLanka. Out of his 72ODIs, he has played 22ODIs against them andhas taken 37 of his 102wickets in theseencounters.     #6. Kumar Sangakkarahas scored 1785 runsagainst India in ODIssince January 2008. Thatis the most number ofruns a batsman hasscored against a singleopposition in ODIs since2008. In fact, in the listof the most successfulbatsmen against a singleopposition since 2008,the top six are batsmenfrom the India-Sri Lankaencounters — out ofthe top ten, it is seven.MS Dhoni is behindSangakkara with 1596runs in 41 matchesagainst Sri Lanka.Tillakaratne Dilshan hasscored 1594 runsagainst India in 43games. GautamGambhir has amassed1537 runs in 35 matchesagainst Sri Lanka. ViratKohli is fifth on the listwith 1527 runs in 35matches against SriLanka. MahelaJayawardene is sixthwith 1370 runs in India-Sri Lanka encounters.     #7. The R PremadasaStadium has hosted asmany as 11 ODIsbetween India and SriLanka since 2008. TheRangiri Stadium,Dambulla is second onthe list with eight.     #8. India and Sri Lankahave faced off in seventri-angular tournamentssince 2008. In the sameperiod, they haveplayed each other infour Asia Cups, oneWorld Cup and aChampions Trophy. Inall these tournaments,they have played sevenfinals against each other— four of which havebeen won by India andthree by Sri Lanka.</blockquote>

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