Australia v India 1st ODI – Statistical Highlights

2016 has not started well for India as a poor bowling performance against Australia while defending 309 runs saw them loose the first match of 2016. It was also for some brilliant batsmenship by twin centurion Steven Smith and George Bailey that made the sail easy for the Aussies. While defending 309, Indian bowlers were never in the game apart from first 10 overs when Barinder Saran got the wickets of Aaron Finch and in-form David Warner but after that what happened is history as Smith and Bailey stitched a 242 runs partnership and created and broken many records.

While batting first after Shikhar Dhawan’s wicket the duo of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli made a humongous 207-run partnership as Rohit made his ninth overall and fourth hundred against Australia and remained not out till the end while Kohli got out for 91 trying to increase the scoring rate as India posted a total of 309 runs with some useful cameos from MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja but it was not enough as Australia chased it with four balls and 5 wickets in hand.

Here are the Statistical Highlights of Aus vs Ind 1^st ODI, 2016:

1^st – The first ODI witnessed two 200 runs partnerships made by pairs which happened for the first time in an ODI match. In the 1st innings, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli made a partnership of 207 runs while in second innings Steven Smith and George Bailey scored 242 runs together.

7^th – Rohit Sharma became seventh Indian batsman to hit 100 or more sixes in ODI cricket. Other six are Sachin Tendulkar (195 sixes), SouravGanguly (190 sixes), MS Dhoni (188 sixes), Yuvraj Singh (148 sixes), Virender Sehwag (136 sixes) and Suresh Raina (120 sixes).

8^th– Number of times Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have added 100 or more runs together in ODIs which is seventh most among other Indian pairs who have added 100 or more runs while batting together.

37– Number of sixes hit by Rohit Sharma against Australia in ODIs which is most by any other batsman against Australia in ODIs. Sachin Tendulkar with 35 sixes and Eoin Morgan with 34 sixes are at second and third place respectively.

149 – Number of runs made by Steven Smith as a captain of Australian team in today’s run chase is the most by any other captain in won matches. However. Andrew Strauss had made 158 runs against India in 2011 World Cup match but that match ended in a tie. This 149 runs in today’s match against India was also Smith’s highest individual score in ODIs.

138 – Number of innings taken by Rohit Sharma to complete his 100 sixes in ODIs which is seventh fastest in ODIs. Ross Taylor (116 innings), Martin Guptill (120 innings), MS Dhoni (123 innings), Viv Richards (126 innings), Shahid Afridi (126 innings), Chris Cairns (128 innings), Shane Watson (135 innings) and Eoin Morgan (135 innings) are ahead of him in making that record.

204– Number of innings taken by Rohit Sharma to complete his 150 sixes in international cricket which is fourth fastest among other batsmen in ODIs. Shahid Afridi (175 innings), Andrew Flintoff (179 innings) and Chris Cairns (199 innings) are ahead of him in making that record.

9– Number of hundreds scored by Rohit Sharma in ODIs which is eighth most among Indian batsmen. Sachin Tendulkar (49), Virat Kohli (23), Sourav Ganguly (22), Virender Sehwag (15), Yuvraj Singh (13), Rahul Dravid (13) and Gautam Gambhir (11).

1^st– Rohit became the first Indian batsman to score a ton at WACA ground. He scored 171* runs today against Australia.

171* – Number of runs Rohit Sharma has scored today against Australia is the highest individual score by any batsman against Australia in Australia. Previous best was 153 which was made by Viv Richards against Australia in Australia at the MCG.

309/3 – Runs scored by India against Australia in today’s game is India’s highest total in Australia against Australia in ODIs.

86.42– Strike rate at which Rohit Sharma has scored his runs against Australia in Australia which is the second best by any other player who has scored a minimum of 500 runs against Australia in Australia after Eoin Morgan. Eoin Morgan has scored his 509 runs Australia against Australia with a strike rate of 92.04 in 15 matches.

14 – Number of sixes hit by Rohit Sharma in Australia against Australia which is the most by any other Indian player in ODIs and fourth most among other batsmen in world cricket. He has hit seven sixes in today’s match against Australia in Perth.

3^rd – Rohit Sharma became only the third opener in ODI history to score two hundreds against Australia in Australia after Sanath Jayasuriya and Desmond Haynes.

171.50 – Average at which Rohit Sharma has scored his 343 runs as an opener against Australia in Australia in 3 matches which is the most by any other opening batsman in Australia against Australia.

19– Number of innings taken by Rohit Sharma to score 1000 runs against Australia in ODIs is the fastest among other batsmen in world cricket. Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar had completed their 1000 runs against Australia in ODIs in 20 innings.

3 – Number of times Rohit Sharma has scored 170+ runs in ODIs which is most times by any batsman in ODIs apart from Sachin Tendulkar who has also scored three times 170+ runs in an innings of an ODI match in his ODI career. Rohit Sharma’s three 170+ scores in ODIs are 264, 219 and 171*.

1^st – Steven Smith became first Australian captain to score a century against India in the 2nd innings of a match in ODIs. Today, he scored 149 runs against India in 2nd innings.

242 – Number of runs added by Steven Smith and George Bailey against India in this match for 3rd wicket which is best partnership against India made by an Australian pair for 3rd wicket in ODIs. Ricky Ponting and Damien Martyn’s 3rd wicket partnership of 234* runs is second best 3rd wicket partnership made by an Aussie pair against India in ODIs which came in the final of 2003 World Cup.

310/5 – This is the highest ever chased target at WACA ground and third highest target ever chased in Australia  in ODIs and only sixth time in Australia any team has chased a target of 300 or more runs in ODIs.

16^th – Barinder Saran is the 16th Indian player to make his debut for India in Australia and overall 207th Indian player to make an ODI debut. Before Barinder Saran, Manoj Tiwary made his ODI debut in Australia in 2008 for India.

2013 – Last time two player have made their ODI debuts for Australia in the same match. In that match, Ben Cutting and Kane Richardson have made their ODI debuts for Australia against Sri Lanka in Adelaide while today Joel Paris and Scott Boland made their debut in the same match against India at Perth. Scott Boland became the 210th and Joel Paris became the 211th player respectively by making their debuts.

89 – Number of wickets taken by Ravichandran Ashwin since 1 January, 2015 including all formats from 25 matches which is most by any other bowler. Mitchell Starc has taken 88 wickets from 30 matches since 1 January, 2015 which is the second most by any bowler since 1 January, 2015 including all formats.

Scorecard:

India: 309/3

Australia: 310/5