Stats Highlights: India vs England, 3rd ODI

First Published : 19 Jan 2013, 21:08
Last Modified : 19 Jan 2013, 21:10

By: Rajneesh Gupta in Mumbai

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On a day that marked a perfect homecoming for skipper MS Dhoni and an ideal beginning for a brand new stadium at Ranchi, Virat Kohli managed to make quite a few heads turn too. The 24-year-old bounced back to form with a match-winning 77-run innings. In the process, he surpassed the 4,000-run mark in ODIs.

Thanks to his batting exploits, the right-hander was also adjudged Man of the Match – his 13^th such award and second against England. Here are these and many more stats highlights from a very special match, both for Team India and the city of Ranchi:

Jharkhand State Cricket Association Stadium in Ranchi became India’s 42^nd and world’s 82^nd ODI ground. India has the most number of ODI grounds.

England’s total of 155 is their third lowest against India.

England’s lowest totals vs India (excluding shortened games):

Virat Kohli, while on 49, completed his 4,000 runs in one-day internationals. He became the 12^th Indian and 84^th batsman in the world to accomplish this feat.

By taking 93 innings to complete his 4,000 runs Kohli became the second quickest in ODIs to reach this mark, after Viv Richards, who took 88 innings to do so. However, both Richards and Kohli reached the mark in same number of matches (96).

At 24 years 75 days, Kohli is the second youngest, after Sachin Tendulkar (22 years 359 days), to tally 4,000 runs in ODIs.

Kohli took 1615 days (from the day of his ODI debut) to reach the 4,000-run mark. Only Rahul Dravid (1453) and MS Dhoni (1500) have taken fewer days to accomplish this feat.

India won the match with 131 balls to spare – their biggest ever against England in terms of balls remaining. The previous best was with 123 balls to spare at Jaipur in 2006.

India’s biggest wins over England (in terms of balls remaining):

This win puts MS Dhoni at level with Sourav Ganguly as India's second most successful ODI captain in terms of number of wins. Now only Mohammad Azharuddin is ahead of him with 90 wins.

Most successful Indian Captains:

Virat Kohli won his 13^th Man of the Match award – his second against England.