Dinusha sets record with four fifty-plus scores vs India in Colombo

Sonal Dinusha etched his identify into Check cricket historical past on August 27, 2026, turning into solely the fifth batter ever to register fifty-plus scores throughout every of his opening 4 Check innings towards India, attaining the milestone on Day 5 of the 2nd Check at Colombo.

Dinusha had compiled 100 and 84 within the first Check earlier than including 103 within the opening innings of the second match. On the ultimate day at Colombo, he prolonged his in a single day rating of seven not out to succeed in 55 not out by the shut of the primary session, finishing a sequence that now spans each innings of the two-Check sequence.

Sri Lanka started Day 5 at 229 for six, with Dinusha and his in a single day companion Nuwantha on 3 not out, holding a lead of simply 16 runs at that time. By the top of the primary session, the pair had added considerably, lifting the whole to 329 for six and increasing the benefit to 116 runs, with Nuwantha unbeaten on 46.

Who’re the opposite 4 batters to have scored fifty-plus in every of their first 4 Check innings towards India?

The 4 batters who achieved this feat earlier than Dinusha symbolize a few of the most distinguished names throughout practically 9 many years of Check cricket. Douglas Jardine of England was the primary, doing so throughout the 1932-34 interval. Everton Weekes and Clyde Walcott, each of West Indies, adopted in 1948. Ken Barrington of England accomplished the group in 1959.

The rarity of the achievement is underlined by the truth that no batter managed it within the six-plus many years between Barrington in 1959 and Dinusha in 2026. Sustaining fifty-plus output throughout 4 consecutive innings towards India, throughout two separate Exams, locations Dinusha in firm that spans the newbie period by to the fashionable sport.

How does Dinusha’s run evaluate to what Sangakkara and Flower produced throughout a two-match sequence?

The broader comparability with Kumar Sangakkara and Andy Flower pertains to batters who’ve posted fifty-plus scores in each innings of a two-Check sequence. Flower produced scores of 183 not out, 70, 55 and 232 not out when Zimbabwe toured India in 2000.

Sangakkara’s comparable achievement is reported throughout two separate sequence, one towards Bangladesh at house in 2013 and one other in England in 2014, quite than inside a single two-match sequence. The exact classification used within the headline comparability subsequently requires editorial clarification earlier than publishing. Dimuth Karunaratne can be cited as having achieved fifty-plus scores throughout all 4 innings of a sequence towards South Africa at house in 2018.

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