Following are the statistical highlights of the second and final Twenty20 International between india and Sri Lanka on saturday:

# The Sri Lanka-India match produced 417 for the loss of 11 wickets -- a record in India and the second highest, next only to 418 for 10 between India and England at Durban on September 19, 2007.

# India's 211/4 is the best successful chase in T20 Internationals, obliterating 208/2 by South Africa against West Indies (205/6) at Johannesburg on September 11, 2007.

# India's total is now the joint-seventh highest in Twenty20 Internationals and the second highest for India - the highest being the 218/4 against England at Kingsmead, Durban on September 19, 2007.

# Yuvraj Singh (3/23) has not only registered his career-best bowling performance in Twenty20 Internationals but also the best in India-Sri Lanka games.

# Seventeen wides were conceded by the Indian bowlers, which is their worst performance in Twenty20 Internationals.

# Mahendra Singh Dhoni's 46 off 28 balls is his career-best innings in Twenty20 Internationals, obliterating the 45 off 33 balls against South Africa at Durban on September 20, 2007.

# Virender Sehwag's magnificent 64 is the highest individual knock by an Indian batsman against Sri Lanka.

# Sehwag's aforesaid innings is his second highest in Twenty20 Internationals - his highest is 68 against England at Durban on September 19, 2007.

# Sanath Jayasuriya (606) became the fourth player to aggregate 600 runs or more in Twenty20 Internationals, joining Brendon McCullum (813), Graeme Smith (642) and Tillakaratne Dilshan (607).

# Yuvraj Singh became the fourth all-rounder to make a fifty and bag three wickets in an innings in the same match -the other three being West Indian, Dwayne Bravo, Netherlands' Ryan Doeschate and Sri Lankan, Sanath Jayasuriya.

# Yuvraj has deservingly got the Man of the Match award for the third time in Twenty20 Internationals.

# Yuvraj is the second Indian to make five fifties or more and his tally is bettered only by Gautam Gambhir (six) in Twenty20 Internationals.

# Yuvraj has taken his sixes' tally to 35, extending his world record in Twenty20 Internationals.

# India became the first nation to make 200 against Sri Lanka, obliterating the 189/6 by Pakistan at Johannesburg on September 17, 2007.

# Kumar Sangakkara became the first skipper to record three innings of fifty-plus in a row in Twenty20 Internationals - 69 against New Zealand at Colombo RPS; 78 against India at Nagpur and 59 at Mohali.

# Sangakkara's tally of five half-centuries as skipper is a most in Twenty20 Internationals.

# India have conceded 24 extras, emulating their worst performance in Twenty20 Internationals. In South Africa's innings of 116/9 at Durban on September 20, 2007, they had conceded 24 extras.

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