CT 2017, Semi-Final 2: India v Bangladesh – Statistical Highlights

India made it to their 9th ICC event final with an authoritative win over the Bangladesh by 9 wickets and 59 balls to spare. After choosing to bowl first, India came back well when Bangladesh was cruising at 152/2 in 27 overs to restrict them to only 264. India batted chancelessly in the chase with Shikhar Dhawan giving an explosive start and Rohit Sharma anchoring the innings brilliant with a century along with captain Virat Kohli to put their side into finals.

Here we look at all the stats and records created during the game.

2 – Number of centuries in ICC ODI tournament knockouts for Rohit Sharma. Only Sourav Ganguly, Saeed Anwar and Ricky Ponting (all have 3 tons) have scored more centuries than Rohit in ICC ODI knockouts.

2 – Rohit Sharma’s 123* in this game is only the 2nd ODI century by an Indian opener in winning cause since the 2015 CWC. KL Rahul’s 100* on debut is the other ton that came in a winning cause for India in this period. 5 centuries (3 from Rohit, 2 by Dhawan) have come in losing cause.

7 – Number of times MS Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh have featured in a semi-final of an ICC event; the most number of times by an Indian player. Sachin Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli all have featured in 6 semis.

10 – Number of century stands in ODIs between Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli; the 18th pair and 7th Indian pair in ODI cricket with 10 century stands.

16 – Wickets picked by Ravindra Jadeja in the Champions Trophy so far; the most by an Indian. He went past Zaheer Khan who has 15 wickets in CT.

175 – Innings Virat Kohli took to complete 8000 runs in ODI cricket; the fastest to the 8000-run milestone in ODIs. He broke AB de Villiers’ record who needed 182 runs to complete 8000 ODI runs.

200 – Sixes hit by Rohit Sharma in International cricket. He is the 22nd player to hit 200 sixes in Internationals and the 2nd fastest (242 innings) after Shahid Afridi (214 innings).

300 – Number of ODIs Yuvraj Singh has played so far. This was his career’s 300th ODI. He became the 5th Indian and the 19th player to feature in 300 ODIs.

384 – Partnership runs between Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma in this Champions Trophy; the 2nd most by any pair in a single edition. The two had scored 382 runs in the 2013 CT. Chris Gayle and Shivnarine Chanderpaul added 512 runs in 2006 CT.

680 – Runs scored by Shikhar Dhawan in the Champions Trophy so far; the 4th most by any player and the most by any Indian. He went past Sourav Ganguly’s tally of 665 runs during this game.

1000 – Rohit Sharma’s century is the 1000th century scored on the English soil in International cricket; the most number of tons in any nation.