Pakistan v West Indies, ODI series - Statistical Highlights

After Pakistan’s return from a rather good England tour, there were speculations about whether the improving Pakistan is really improving or not? The Twenty-20 Internationals series showed a 3-0 whitewash of the World Champions under a new captain and rather younger side. It was the ODI form which troubled Pakistan. Their last series win was a year ago, against Zimbabwe and they were at their record lowest ranking, no. 9.

Pakistan batted first in the first ODI and posted a respectable target of 285 for the Windies to chase, owing a maiden ODI century by Babar Azam. Good bowling by Mohammad Nawaz earned Pakistan a victory by 111 runs. The same was the case with the rest of the ODIs, each containing a Babar Azam century, as Pakistan won the 2nd and 3rd ODI by 59 runs and 136 runs respectively. A convincing 3-0 whitewash in the ODI series as well took Pakistan to number 8 in the ICC ODI Rankings.

In case you missed any of our stats throughout the series, here’s a special statistical highlights package from the ODI series:

2013 – The last time Pakistan batted first in every match of a bilateral series was in November 2013 when they travelled to South Africa for a short limited-overs series.

2 – Pakistan posted two consecutive totals of 300+ batting first in the 2nd and 3rd game of the series. The last time it happened was in April 2008 when Pakistan posted 308/8 and 329/9 in the 3rd and 5th match of their home series vs Bangladesh.

10 – Babar Azam became the 10th Pakistani to score hundreds in more than one consecutive ODIs and only the 3rd Pakistani to score 100s in three consecutive ODIs.

360 – Runs scored by Babar Azam in the 3-match ODI series is the Most Runs scored by any Batsman in a 3-match bilateral ODI series, surpassing Quinton de Kock’s record of 342 runs he scored against India in 2013.

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1 – Azhar Ali became the first Pakistani captain to score three ODI centuries. Before him, Inzamam-ul-Haq and Shahid Afridi had scored two each as captains.

337 – Pakistan posted their Highest (337/5) and 2nd Highest (308/6) team score vs West Indies in the 2nd and 3rd ODI of the series respectively.

136 – Pakistan’s victory by 136 runs in the final ODI was their second-highest in terms of runs against the Windies. The highest being the 138 runs victory in October 1999 at Sharjah.

886 – Babar Azam has 886 runs after 18 ODIs – Most runs by any batsman after 18 ODIs. Sir Vivian Richards had scored 883 runs after 18 ODIs.

100 – Wahab Riaz completed his 100 ODI wickets during the series, becoming the 19th Pakistani to accomplish this feat.

4.01 – Hasan Ali recorded a mere economy rate of 4.01 bowling near 21 overs throughout the series. The last time a Pakistani pace bowler recorded an economy lower than Hasan was Mohammad Irfan in the series vs West Indies in 2013 when he gave only 3.89 runs per over throughout the series.

2 – Pakistan has now won 457 ODIs from the 866 they have played – 2nd most ODI wins by any team. Only Australia has won more ODIs than Pakistan now.

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18th time Pakistan has white-washed a side in ODI series of 3 or more than 3 games, first time under Azhar Ali. Off the 18 times Pakistan has white-washed a team in a bilateral ODI series, West Indies is the most common victim (5 different times) jointly with Zimbabwe.

8 – Pakistan has climbed to no. 8 in ICC ODI Rankings while West Indies has dropped to no. 9 in the rankings.