Ireland vs India 2018, T20I Series – Statistical Preview

India will begin their Europe tour with a 2-match T20I series in Ireland which will be only the 2nd time they face the Irish side outside World Cups and World T20s. India toured Ireland in June 2007 for One-Dayers against the hosts and South Africa which was the only other time when India toured the nation. Both the teams are well separated when it comes to the T20I format as India are ranked 3rd and have a chance to catch up with Pakistan on the top while Ireland are placed at No.17.

All the stats and numbers ahead of India’s first T20I series against Ireland:

1 – Only once before India and Ireland faced off in a T20I game. They defeated the Irish side in the 2009 WT20 game where Zaheer Khan took a 4-wicket haul and Rohit Sharma scored an unbeaten fifty.

4 – India have won their last four T20I series/tournaments which includes three bilateral series and Nidahas Trophy. This is their longest such streak in the T20I format. If India wins the series against Ireland, it will be the first time that they win four bilateral T20I series in a row(including one-off).

50.07 – KL Rahul’s batting average in the Twenty20 format in 2018. He scored 701 runs in 16 innings with the help of six fifties in T20s in 2018. No other player has scored more than 600 T20 runs at an average of 50 this year.

Rahul’s T20I batting average of 45.45 is the 3rd best among the players with 500+ runs. He scored exactly 500 runs in 13 T20I innings with four fifty-plus scores.

100 – The next T20I that India features will be their 100th T20I game making them the 7th team to feature in as many T20I games. India’s win-loss ratio of 1.742 in this format is the 2nd best for any side behind Afghanistan’s 2.000.

951 – Runs Suresh Raina has scored in the Twenty20 format in 2018 thus far. Only Rishabh Pant (1125) and Shane Watson (1019) have scored more runs in T20s than Raina in 2018.

1983 – Virat Kohli has scored 1983 runs in T20I cricket thus far. He needs 17 more runs to become the 3rd player after Martin Guptill and Brendon McCullum to score 2000 runs in Men’s T20I cricket.

2973 – Runs Gary Wilson has scored in his International career thus far. He needs 27 more runs to become the 5th player to score 3000 International runs for Ireland.

5982 – Runs Shikhar Dhawan has scored in the Twenty20 format thus far. He needs 18 more runs to become the 6th Indian player to complete 6000 runs in T20 cricket.

9925 – Runs Rohit Sharma scored across three formats in International cricket. He needs 75 more runs to become the 13th player to score 10,000 runs in International cricket for India.

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