• On 1 December 2010, Sri Lanka's
Suranga Lakmal became the third bowler to take a wicket with the first ball bowled in a Test match at a new venue, after
Kapil Dev and
Imran Khan. • On 26 March 2011,
Tillakaratne Dilshan and
Upul Tharanga added a 282-run partnership for the first wicket for Sri Lanka in an ODI against
Zimbabwe, which was the highest partnership for the first wicket in a
Cricket World Cup. •
Shaun Marsh and
Mike Hussey added 258 runs for the fourth wicket for
Australia against Sri Lanka, which is the highest fourth wicket partnership in Test matches between Sri Lanka and Australia. • Dilshan scored a
century against Australia in a
Twenty20 International (T20I) match during
Australia's tour of Sri Lanka in 2011, becoming the second Sri Lankan to score centuries in all formats. This was the highest individual innings by a Sri Lankan in T20Is, and made Dilshan the first ever cricketer to score centuries in all formats as a captain. •
Steve O'Keefe,
Peter Nevill and
Josh Hazlewood of Austrlia faced a record 25.4 consecutive
overs without scoring a run for the ninth and tenth wickets in a Test match against Sri Lanka on 30 July 2016. In the same match,
Lakshan Sandakan took seven wickets for 107 runs and recorded the best figures by a
slow left-arm wrist-spin bowler on Test debut. • On 6 September 2016, Australia's
Glenn Maxwell score 145 runs, then the second highest individual score in T20Is. Australia scored 263 runs while batting first against Sri Lanka, which was the highest team score in T20Is at the time. • On 6 September 2019
Lasith Malinga took four wickets in four balls in a T20I against New Zealand, the first such occurrence in T20Is. He also took his 100th wicket in T20Is in the same match, becoming the first cricketer to take 100 wickets in all three formats. • On 9 February 2024,
Pathum Nissanka made an
unbeaten 210 runs, becoming the first Sri Lankan to score a double hundred in ODIs. == Statistics and records ==