Sri Lanka Cricket Team: Sri Lankan cricket team is one of the most famous teams in world cricket. Sri Lankan cricket team has won many ICC trophies. Along with winning the ODI World Cup, Sri Lanka team has also won the Champions Trophy and T20 World Cup titles.

Not only this, but Sri Lanka Cricket Team also holds the record of scoring 952 runs in an innings. So let's know in detail about this historical record of the Sri Lankan team.

Sri Lanka Team has scored 952 runs

Let us tell you that Sri Lanka Cricket Team holds the record of scoring the most runs in an innings of Test cricket, which it made by scoring 952 runs against India in the year 1997. In this match between Sri Lanka and India, Sri Lanka scored 952 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in the second innings and created history.

However, during this time Team India also scored 537/8 runs. This match was played at R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo and in this, 3 batsmen from Sri Lanka scored more than 100 runs.

3 batsmen scored more than 100 runs

In the match between Sri Lanka and India, Sanath Jayasuriya scored 340 runs in 578 balls from Sri Lanka Team. At the same time, Roshan Mahanama played an innings of 225 runs in 561 balls. Apart from these two batsmen, Aravinda de Silva also scored a century. In this match, an innings of 126 runs was seen from the bat of Aravinda de Silva. However, not only the Sri Lankan batsmen but also the Indian batsmen performed brilliantly.

Indian batsmen also showed their strength

In this match, India batted first and scored 537/8 runs in the first innings. During this time, Navjot Sidhu, Sachin Tendulkar and Mohammad Azharuddin also scored centuries from the Indian cricket team. Sidhu scored 111 runs in this match while Sachin and Azharuddin scored 143 and 126 runs respectively.