Numbers Game: Kumar's career-best performance helps India thump SL

Statistical highlights of the ODI tri-series match between India and Sri Lanka at Port of Spain on Tuesday night. - Bhuvneshwar Kumar got his second Man of the Match award in ODIs. He had first received the award against Pakistan for capturing two wickets for 19 runs at Birmingham on 15 June, 2013. - Kumar (4 for 8) registered a career-best bowling performance in ODIs, outstripping the 3 for 29 vs England at Kochi on 15 January, 2013. - His superb performance is the best by an Indian bowler in the West Indies in ODIs, bettering Amit Mishra’s four for 31 vs -West Indies at Port of Spain on 8 June, 2011. [caption id=“attachment_945785” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Kumar (4 for 8) registered a career-best bowling performance in ODIs. PTI[/caption] - With eight wickets at an average of 9. 12 in three matches, he is the leading wicket-taker in the present Tri series. - Rohit Sharma (48 not out off 83 balls) top-scored in the match. His record in the Caribbean is excellent - his tally being 431 (ave. 53.87), including four fifties, in 13 matches. - India have won four consecutive ODIs at Port of Spain for the first time - between 6 June, 2011 and 9 July, 2013 - three vs West Indies and one vs Sri Lanka - India’s well-deserved 81-run win was their first in three matches against Sri Lanka in the West Indies in ODIs. - India had lost the first two games to them - one each at Port of Spain (by 69 runs on 23 March, 2007) and Kingston (by 161 runs on 2 July, 2013). - All three teams - India, Sri Lanka and West Indies - have won two and lost two each in the present tournament so far. India, with better net run-rate, qualified for the finals. PTI