Top 5 'firsts' in cricket to take place in Sri Lanka

#4 Highest innings score in a Test match

Sanath Jayasuriya during his triple century

This historical match was played between India and Sri Lanka on a placid pitch at Colombo's R Premadasa Stadium in September 1997. India scored 537 for 8 in the first innings, which included centuries from Sachin Tendulkar, Navjot Singh Sidhu and Mohammed Azharuddin.

What followed was historical and in many ways a very poor advert for Test cricket. On the placid pitch, Sri Lanka amassed 952 runs for 8 wickets, in an innings which lasted for 271 overs. Sanath Jayasuriya plundered 340 runs and was involved in a 576-runs partnership with Roshan Mahanama, who scored 225 runs himself.

The duo batted all through the third as well as the fourth day, and thus became the first pair to carry their bat over two complete days.