India vs West Indies, 2nd ODI Stats Review: Suryakumar Yadav, Prasidh Krishna star as India walks away with the series

Suryakumar Yadav scored 64 and pacer Prasidh Krishna took four wickets for just 12 runs as India defeated West Indies by 44 runs in the second ODI to clinch the series 2-0 with one game in hand. Both Yadav and Krishna recorded their career-best performances with West Indies minus Kieron Pollard again failing to put up a show in a 50-over match. Earlier in the day, regular skipper Pollard missed out on the game with a niggle as Nicholas Pooran wore the captaincy hat.

Speaking of how the match went by, Pooran won the toss and elected to field first. Rishabh Pant opened the innings for the first time in ODIs but could only manage 18 runs. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli too didn’t trouble the scorers much as they amassed five and 18 runs respectively. KL Rahul who batted at no. four-position mustered 49 runs before running himself out. Yadav got some support from Washington Sundar and Deepak Hooda in helping India to post a total of 237/9 in 50 overs.

Chasing 238, West Indies batting again looked weak as Shamarh Brooks scored 44 runs with second-most runs coming from Akeal Hosein’s bat who chalked up 34 runs. Darren Bravo and Nicholas Pooran were the victims of the impressive quick Krishna as both recorded single-digit scores. For his terrific spell of 4/12 in nine overs with three maidens, the right-arm fast bowler Krishna was adjudged with the Player of the Match award. India with the 11^th consecutive bilateral ODI series wins against the Caribbean side will look to put more misery on them by winning the third and final ODI on Friday, February 11^th subsequently clean sweeping 3-0.

Meanwhile, here are some of the stats and numbers from India vs West Indies, 2^nd ODI:

 64 – Suryakumar Yadav recorded his highest score in ODIs. His previous best was 53 against Sri Lanka in 2021.

100 – Virat Kohli played his 100^th ODI at home.

12 – Rishabh Pant became the 12^th Indian wicketkeeper batter to open the ODI innings.

5 – Kohli became the fifth Indian after Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni, and Mohammad Azharuddin to appear in 100 ODIs on home soil.

4/12 – Prasidh Krishna achieved his best bowling figures in ODIs. His previous best spell of 4/54 came against England in 2021.

2 – India’s score of 237/9 is their second-lowest first innings ODI total against West Indies at home since 2007. They got bowled out for 189 in Cuttack in the 2007 series.

11 – India has now won the 11^th consecutive bilateral ODI series against West Indies.

67 – Kohli has now gone 67 innings without a century in international cricket.

15 – With 15 scalps in the first six ODIs, Krishna has taken the most wickets by any Indian bowler in as many matches.

3 – Krishna became the third Indian pacer to concede the fewest runs in a four-wicket haul spell in ODIs. Stuart Binny had figures of 6/4 against Bangladesh in 2014 and Bhuvneshwar Kumar 4/8 against Sri Lanka in 2013.

6 – Suryakumar Yadav has played six ODIs and in all six matches, he has crossed 30 runs mark.

4 – Kemar Roach dismissed Rohit Sharma for the fourth time in the 50-overs format. The most times he has got a batter out is Tamim Iqbal which is seven.

11 – With 11 consecutive bilateral ODI series wins against West Indies, India equaled Pakistan’s record of 11 consecutive victories against a team. Pakistan has won as many series against Zimbabwe from 1996 to 2021.

5020 – Kohli has notched up 5020 runs in 100 ODIs at home which is the most by any batter. Tendulkar is on second for scoring 4245 runs in as many home matches.

1 – Right-handed batter Suryakumar Yadav became the first player to score 30 plus runs in each of the first six ODI matches. Joe Root recorded the same feat but in the first six innings.

250 – Run-machine Kohli batted for the 250^th time in the ODIs.

41 – Kohli has now played 41 ODIs against West Indies which is the third most by an Indian. Mohammad Azharuddin and Kapil Dev had played 43 and 42 matches respectively.