India v Sri Lanka, 2017: 2nd T20I – Statistical Preview

After a thumping win in the first T20I, India will be looking to repeat it in the 2nd game in Indore as well and seal the series with one more match to spare. Indian wrist spinners came to the party twice in two games to hand India an easy win. MS Dhoni’s form and KL Rahul’s strong return to limited-overs reduced the batting troubles for India but Rohit Sharma’s recent form in the T20s is a worrying factor especially with a run-fest expected in Indore.

All the key stats and numbers ahead of the crucial 2nd T20I at the Indore’s Holkar Stadium:

5 – Number of matches Holkar stadium hosted in the IPL – Two in 2011 and three in 2017. The chasing sides won in all the four matches.

8 – Kuldeep Yadav bagged eight wickets in four Twenty20 games he played in Indore including his only 5-wicket haul in this format. He picked up his wickets at an S/R of 9.3 and an average of 13.5 in those four matches.

19.71 – Rohit Sharma’s batting average in T20I cricket in 2017. This is his lowest T20I average in a calendar year in which he batted more than one innings. In the seven T20I innings Rohit batted in 2017, he scored 138 runs out of which 80 came in one inning.

20 – Indore’s Holkar Stadium will be India’s 20th T20I venue and overall the 97th venue to host a T20I game.

74 – With the four dismissals in the first T20I, MS Dhoni became the first 2nd player in Twenty20 history with 200 dismissals as wicketkeeper. He now has 74 dismissals in T20Is which are the most for any player (as a fielder + as a wicketkeeper).

99 – Nuwan Pradeep has picked up 99 wickets in International cricket so far. He needs one more wicket for completing 100 wickets in International cricket. Pradeep bagged 70 wickets in Test cricket, 28 wickets in ODIs and took his first wicket in the T20I format in the previous game.

146.29 – Batting strike-rate of KL Rahul in Twenty20 cricket in his last 19 innings. He scored 732 runs in those 19 innings at an average of 52.28 including six fifties and one hundred. In his first 34 T20 innings, Rahul managed to aggregate 683 runs at an S/R of 112.7 and an average of 23.55 with three fifties.

177.27 – MS Dhoni’s batting strike-rate of 177.27 in the Cuttack T20I is his highest in a T20I innings where he faced 20 and more deliveries. He faced 22 balls for his 39* with four fours and six.

996 – Runs MS Dhoni aggregated in International cricket in 2017. Dhoni scored over 1000 runs in ten consecutive years between 2005 and 2014 but missed out in 2015 and 2016.

1997 – Only one before Sri Lanka featured in an International game that was hosted by Indore. In the 1997 ODI played at the Nehru Stadium, Sri Lanka faced the hosts. The game got abandoned after the officials decided that the pitch was dangerous for the players to play on. The T20I game on Friday will be the first International for Lankans at the Holkar Stadium.