By Rajneesh Gupta
Jamaica, June 16: As the five-match ODI series between West Indies and India draws to a close, hopes of a centurion emerging from a contest have quietly faded. Rohit Sharma’s Man-of-the-Series winning performance conspicuously lacked a ton, and though Virat Kohli climbed up to the 94 in this last game, he too fell short of the magic total. Here’s a look at the stats highlights from a game that took Sharma ahead of Virender Sehwag’s run tally against West Indies at home.
257- Runs scored by Rohit Sharma in the series – the most by an Indian in a bilateral series in the Caribbean. He surpassed Virender Sehwag’s tally of 237 runs in 2006.
128.50- Rohit’s batting average - third best for an Indian playing at least five innings in a bilateral series. Only Yuvraj Singh (172.00 v Pakistan in 2005-06) and Rahul Dravid (156.00 v Sri Lanka in 2005-06) have achieved higher averages.
61.66- Ramnaresh Sarwan’s batting average against India - third best by any batsman having played at least 25 innings. Only two South Africans – Jacques Kallis (65.86) and Gary Kirsten (62.59) – are ahead of Sarwan.
12- Number of 50-plus scores made by Sarwan in his ODI career against India – the most by a West Indies batsman. He now shares the record with Shivnarine Chanderpaul.
11- Number of wickets taken by Amit Mishra in the series – the most by an Indian in a series against West Indies. The previous record was of nine wickets jointly held by Anil Kumble (twice), Ravi Shastri and Ajit Agarkar.
11- Number of wicketkeeping dismissals made by Parthiv Patel and Carlton Baugh in the series – new records for both India and West Indies.
3- Rohit Sharma became the third Indian player to win the Man-of-the-Series award against West Indies in the Caribbean. Sourav Ganguly (in 2002) and MS Dhoni (in 2009) are the others to do so.
3- Number of Indian batsmen to be dismissed run-out in their nineties against West Indies. Virat Kohli now joins Sunil Gavaskar (90, Berbice, 1982-83) and Sourav Ganguly (98, Nagpur, 2006-07) in suffering this fate.
2- Sarwan became the second West Indies batsman to be retired hurt against India in an ODI. Desmond Haynes had also retired hurt at Guwahati in 1983-84 but came back to resume his innings later.
0- Number of centuries scored by either side in the series. This is the first occasion in a bilateral series between India and West Indies of five matches or more where no batsman has managed to reach the three-figure mark.
