SL v IND, 2nd Test: Day 2 Stats

Following are the statistical highlights of day two of the second Test between India and Sri Lanka: 

# Kumar Sangakkara, with seven double centuries, has set a record for most innings of 200-plus for Sri Lanka, eclipsing the previous record of six held by Mahela Jayawardene and Marvan Atapattu. 

# Sangakkara's tally of seven double hundreds is bettered only by Australia's Donald Bradman (12) and West Indian Brian Lara (9). 

# For the first time, the top five players - No 1 to 5 - have made fifty-plus in an innings for Sri Lanka. 

# Sangakkara became the seventh skipper in the history of Test cricket to register a double hundred against India, joining England's Graham Gooch (333), West Indian Clive Lloyd (242 not out), New Zealand's Graham Dowling (239), West Indian Carl Hooper (233), Australia's Greg Chappell (204) and Don Bradman (201). 

# Virender Sehwag has recorded his 22nd fifty in Tests - his third against Sri Lanka. 

# Sehwag and Murali Vijay have amassed 530 in only four innings in partnerships at an average of 176.66, including two stands of 100-plus and two 90-plus. 

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