Lankans laid lowly in Mohali: Interesing statistics from the second one-dayer

The visiting Sri Lankan side are clearly clueless from the Pathan and Tendulkar attack. The carnage from Nagpur continued North-west ward in Mohali. The only difference was that the teams swapped the order of batting and chasing.

Here are some of the interesting facts and statistics I found from the game:

1. Russel Arnold, for the second time was Harbhajan's victm in as many matches so far in this series. Interestingly, Arnold was dismissed by Harbhajan only once in his 21 appearances against India prior to this series. Seems like Russel is becoming Bhajji's new bunny.

2.Rahul Dravid has now won two consecutive matches as skipper of India only for the second time in his brief stint as captain. The previous occassion when India has won two consecutive matches with Dravid as skipper was way back in 2000-2001 season. The vistory was also only Rahul's ninth in 19 matches as skipper for India.

3. Meanwhile, Marvan Atapattu has to cope up with back-to-back losses, which happens to be his first in the last 10 matches. But this is only a slight dent in his impressive captaincy record, which stands at 14 losses in 43 matches.

4. Sachin Tendulkar's resurgence in international cricket has dominated sporting headlines. Coincidentally, Sachin's previous back-to-back knocks of over 50 runs (less than 100 runs) in an innings was also against Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup in 2003. His knocks included 82 and 78 not out.