Amazing Sri Lankan Cricket records

Highest partnership for any wicket in a Test match

624, for the third wicket by Kumar Sangakkara (b. 27 October 1977) (287) Mahela Jayawardene (b. 27 May 1977) (374) for Sri Lanka v. South Africa at Colombo, on 27-31 July 2006. 

Highest team score in a Test match innings 

Sri Lanka scored 952 for 6 against India at Colombo on 4-6 Aug 1997. England scored 903 runs for seven wickets declared in 15hr 17min, v. Australia at The Oval, London on 20, 22 and 23 Aug 1938. 

Most wicket taken by player in One-day international 

The best bowling analysis is 8-19 by Chaminda Vass (Sri Lanka) against Zimbabwe at Colombo,on 8 December 2001. 

Most wicket taken in a Test match,One-day international and Twenty20 international career combined

Muttiah Muralitharan took the most international wickets: 1,347, from 1992 to the World Cup final on 2 April 2011.

Most one-day internationals played in a career 

Sanath Jayasuriya (b. 30 June 1969,) has played 444 One Day Internationals for Sri lanka between 1989 and 2010. 

Most wickets taken in a Test match career 

Muttiah Muralitharan is the leading Test match wicket-taker, with 800 wickets in 133 matches from 28 August 1992 to 22 July 2010. Muralitharan reached 800 in the last day of his Test career before retirement, doing so against India. 

First Player to take four wickets in four balls in a One day international

Lasith Malinga became the first bowler to achieve four consecutive dismissals in any form of international cricket against South Africa in Guyana on 28 March 2007.

First Player to take a hat-trick with the first three balls of a one day internationals

The best bowling start to a match was made in a World Cup game by Chaminda Vaas (b. Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas, 27 January 1974) playing for Sri Lanka against Canada at Pietermaritzburg, South Africa on 15 February 2003. He took a hat trick with the first three balls of the game and then claimed a fourth victim in his opening over before finishing with six for 25. Sri Lanka went to win the match by ten wickets.