Stat highlights: Hales and Roy surpass Tendulkar and Ganguly with record stand

After a thrilling tie in the first One Day International (ODI) in Nottingham, England thumped Sri Lanka by 10 wickets at Birmingham on Friday (June 24) in one of the most one-sided affairs between the two teams.

Sri managed a competitive 255 thanks to half-centuries from Dinesh Chandimal and Upul Tharanga. England started off carefully in the chase before cutting loose and made light work of the Sri Lankan bowling. Alex Hales top-scored with an unbeaten 133, but it was Jason Roy who won the Man-of-the-Match award for scoring a scintillating 112 and effecting two run outs.

Records kept tumbling one after another during the England chase. Here are a few of them:

- 4 Fifty partnerships between Angelo Mathews and Dinesh Chandimal in as many innings in 2016, reading - 93, 88, 64 and 82.

- 1192 partnerships runs between Mathews and Chandimal in 35 innings together, with a highest of 93. Only Alistair Campbell and Guy Whittall have put together more runs (1249 runs) without a century stand.

- 53* by Upul Tharanga was his first score above fifty since his career-best 174* against India at Kingston in July 2013, nearly three years ago. He scored just 265 runs in 18 innings prior to today's game, with a highest of 43.

- 6 scores of fifty or more for Alex Hales in seven innings in ODIs in 2016. His scores, reading - 57, 99, 65, 50, 112, 4 and 133*. He now has 520 runs this calendar year, only behind Steve Smith (574) and David Warner (511).

- 2 Instances of both England openers scoring a century in ODIs. Before Hales and Roy, the only other pair to do it was Marcus Trescothick (114*) and Vikram Solanki (106) against South Africa at the Oval in 2003.

- 3 century stands for the first wicket between Hales and Jason Roy in 21 innings together. Only Nick Knight and Marcus Trescothick have more hundred-run stands for England - four in 43 innings. The aggregate of 975 runs between Hales and Roy is fourth-most for an English opening pair in ODIs.

- 133* by Hales is the highest individual score for England against Sri Lanka in ODIs. The previous highest was 130 by David Gower in Taunton in 1983. It is also his personal-best score in ODIs, surpassing 112 against South Africa at Cape Town earlier this year.

- 112* by Roy is his career-best score in ODIs. His only other century was 102 against Pakistan at Dubai (DSC) in November 2015.

The partnership of 256 runs between Hales and Roy is:

+ The best for England for any wicket in ODIs. The previous best was 250 by Andrew Strauss and Jonathan Trott against Bangladesh for the second wicket at the same venue in 2010.

+ The best for England for the opening wicket in ODIs. The previous best was 200 by Marcus Trescothick and Vikram Solanki against South Africa at the Oval in 2003.

+ The best for England for the first wicket against Sri Lanka in ODIs. The previous best was 171 by Alastair Cook and Craig Kieswetter in Nottingham in 2011.

+ The best for the first wicket against Sri Lanka, surpassing 252 by Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly at Colombo (RPS) in 1998.

+ The third highest against Sri Lanka for any wicket, after 318 by Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid in Taunton in 1999, and 267* by Luke Ronchi and Grant Elliot in Dunedin in 2015.

- 256 chased by England is the highest target successfully chased down by a team in ODI history without losing any wicket. The previous highest was 236 by New Zealand against Zimbabwe at Harare in 2015.

- 256 is also the second highest target chased down in a 50-over ODI match at Edgbaston. The highest is 260 by England against Australia in the semi-finals of Champions Trophy 2004.

- 95 balls to spare when England scored the winning run, is the highest margin of victory in a 250-plus chase in ODIs. The previous best was 83 by Kenya against Netherlands at Lincoln in 2014.