India vs West Indies, 3rd ODI Stats Review: Virat Kohli's unwanted feat, Prasidh Krishna's achievements and other stats

Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant scored 80 runs and 56 respectively to guide India to a total of 265 in 50 overs. Mohammed Siraj and Prasidh Krishna took three wickets each to restrict West Indies to just 169 all-out subsequently winning the third ODI by 96 runs, clean sweeping the Caribbean side 3-0. Rohit Sharma became the first Indian captain to whitewash West Indies in an ODI series. It is also the fifth consecutive defeat for the men in maroon in the 50-overs format.

Speaking of how the third ODI panned out, team India made four changes from the last match as KL Rahul, Yuzvendra Chahal, Shardul Thakur and Deepak Hooda all missed out and were replaced by Shikhar Dhawan, Kuldeep Yadav, Deepak Chahar, and Shreyas Iyer.

Skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and opted to bat first but the pair of Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan couldn’t do much as both amassed 13 and 10 runs respectively. Virat Kohli had a series to forget as he bagged a duck eventually scoring just 26 runs in three matches, which is his second-lowest in a bilateral series at home. Deepak Chahar continued to impress with the bat as he smashed 38 runs to help India in reaching 265. Jason Holder was the pick of the bowlers as he took four wickets for 34 runs.

Chasing 266, West Indies again failed miserably with the bat as Odean Smith, who came in at no. 9 recorded the highest score for the Caribbean team which was 36. Alazarri Joseph scored 29 with the visitors continuing their horrible performances in the batting department.

Indian pacers took eight wickets in total in between them to hand West Indies a thrashing. Shreyas Iyer was declared as the Player of the Match and Prasidh Krishna Player of the Series for picking up nine scalps in the series. Both teams will now contest in a three-match T20I series starting February 16, 2022, at the iconic Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

Meanwhile, here are some of the important stats and numbers from India vs West Indies, 3^rd ODI:

32 – Virat Kohli surpassed Virender Sehwag (31) and bagged 32^nd duck across formats to become second Indian batting at no. one-seven with most ducks.

26 – Kohli scored just 26 runs in three ODIs this series.

2 – With 15 ODI ducks, Kohli is second behind Ricky Ponting (16), for most ducks by a batter at no. three.

5 – Jason Holder recorded his fifth-best bowling figures (4/34) in ODIs.

2015 – The last time Kohli scored below 50 runs in the bilateral ODI series was against Bangladesh in June 2015. He amassed 49 runs in three matches in that series.

17 – Prasidh Krishna has now taken the most wickets after the first seven ODIs for India. Ajit Agarkar and Jasprit Bumrah both had taken 16 wickets each.

8 – With eight catches in the series, Rishabh Pant has now taken the most catches by an Indian wicketkeeper in a three-match bilateral ODI series. Nayan Mongia had taken seven against Sri Lanka in 1994.

161 – Deepak Chahar has scored 161 runs in his last three ODI innings.

11 – 11^th win for Rohit Sharma as Indian skipper is the most by an Indian captain in the first 13 matches.

6 – Darren Bravo has scored below 20 runs in each of his last six ODI innings.

8 – India has now won eight of the last ten ODIs at home.

1 – First time India has whitewashed West Indies in a bilateral ODI series.

1 – First time in seven ODI matches when Suryakumar Yadav didn’t score 30 or more.

2 – Second bilateral ODI series at home where Kohli recorded the least number of runs (26). He chalked up just 13 runs in three matches against Pakistan in 2012/13.

5 – West Indies has now lost five consecutive ODIs.

3 – The third series for Rohit Sharma as an ODI captain and India has won all of them. The men in blue defeated Sri Lanka 2-1 in 2017 and won the Asian Cup in 2018 under the leadership of Sharma.

3 – Shreyas Iyer achieved his third-best score in ODI format. His top two knocks are 103 against New Zealand and 88 against Sri Lanka.

4 – Kohli (15) also surpassed Suresh Raina (14) and Virender Sehwag (14) and is now the fourth Indian to bag most ducks batting at no. 1-7 in 50-overs format.

56 – Rishabh Pant notched up his fifth-best score in ODI matches.

8.66 – Kohli mustered an average of just 8.66 in three matches this series.