India v Australia T20I series, 2017 – Approaching milestones

After a one-sided ODI series dominated by India, Australia’s limited-overs tour moves forward to the three-match T20I series. The players from both sides who played along during the IPL will now be playing as rivals where they try to give their best and add some achievements to their names.

Here we look at all the approaching milestones of the players ahead of the series.

18 – Ashish Nehra will become the 8th Indian to complete 18 years in International cricket if he features in any one of the three T20I matches. His span in International cricket will be the 4th longest if he gets a chance in the series.

49 – Number of wins in T20I cricket for India. They need one more win to become the 4th team to complete 50 T20I wins.

78 – Number of T20I appearances for MS Dhoni. If he features in all the three T20Is, then he will be the 4th most capped player in T20I cricket after Shahid Afridi (98), Shoaib Malik (89) and Umar Akmal (82)

99 – Number of matches Yuzvendra Chahal has played in Twenty20 cricket so far. The first game he plays in this series will be his 100th Twenty20 appearance.

99 – Number of catches Virat Kohli has taken in Twenty20 cricket. Kohli needs one more catch to become the 18th player and 3rd Indian after Suresh Raina (132) and Rohit Sharma (101) to complete 100 catches in T20 format.

194 – Number of dismissals MS Dhoni has affected in his Twenty20 career so far. He needs six more dismissals yo become the 2nd wicketkeeper effect 200 dismissals in T20s.

199 – Number of Twenty20s Aaron Finch has played in his career so far. He will become the 10th Australian with 200 T20 caps when he features in his first game of this series.

1830 – Virat Kohli has scored 1830 runs in his T20I career so far. He needs 170 more runs to become the 2nd player after Brendon McCullum to complete 2000 runs in T20I cricket.

6942 – Runs Virat Kohli has aggregated in his Twenty20 career so far. He needs 58 more runs to become the 8th player and the 1st Indian to complete 7000 runs in the T20 format.