Kamindu Mendis on Friday created history by becoming the fastest Asian and second quickest overall to reach 1000 runs in Test history. The Sri Lankan batter achieved the feat during the ongoing 2nd Test against New Zealand in Galle when he struck a six off Rachin Ravindra after which the hosts declared their innings at a mammoth total of 602/5 on Friday.
Playing in just the 8th Test of his fledgling Test career, Kamindu got to the milestone in his 13th innings the same number that the great Don Bradman (13 innings in 7 Tests) took to do so in July 1930. Herbert Sutcliffe and Everton Weekes are the joint-quickest to do so having taken 12 innings in 9 Tests each.
Kamindu thus became the quickest Asian in history to reach 1000 runs in Tests surpassing the earlier record held by former India batter Vinod Kambli who took 14 innings in 12 Tests do so. Rising India batting star Yashasvi Jaiswal is now the third quickest Asian in this list having taken 16 innings in 9 Tests.
Earlier, Kamindu also became the fastest Asian batter to score five centuries in Test history. He took just 13 innings to get there and is third joint-quickest overall alongside Bradman.
West Indies legend Weekes holds the record for the quickest ever to five Test centuries doing so in 10 innings while Neil Harvey and Sutcliffe are joint-second (12 innings).
Kamindu is also the first Test batter in history to score 50 or more in his first eight Tests. He’s been in rich vein of form in the ongoing Test series against New Zealand hitting a century in the opening clash which Sri Lanka won by 63 runs.
Sri Lanka have made a dominant start to the 2nd Test too thanks to centuries from Kamindu (182*), Dinesh Chandimal (116) and Kusal Mendis (106*).
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