SA vs ENG, 2020: 3-match ODI series – Statistical Preview

England gears up for a 3-match ODI series starting on Friday after whitewashing South Africa in the T20I series. The 1st and 3rd matches of this series will be played at the Newlands in Cape Town while the second ODI will be played at the Paarl’s Boland Park, same as the T20I series. Despite their poor run in T20Is recently, South Africa has fared well in ODIs especially at home. England, fresh of an ODI series defeat after a long time, will be aiming for their first ODI series win on South African soil in 11 years.

Here are all the key stats and numbers ahead of the 3-match ODI series between South Africa and England:

0 – Ben Stokes has not played an ODI match since winning the player of the match award in the 2019 World Cup final against New Zealand. It has been more than 16 months since the Lord’s final and the all-rounder further has been rested from the ODI series against South Africa. No cricketer before Stokes who was adjudged as the player of the final in a Men’s ODI CWC has spent more than ten months before playing his next ODI.

0-6 – England has lost all the six ODI matches they played against South Africa at the Newlands in Cape Town which will be hosting the 1st and 3rd matches of this series. England even lost an ODI to Zimbabwe by a margin of 104 runs at this venue in 2000 but thumped Pakistan by 112 runs in the 2003 CWC, the only ODI win for England in Cape Town.

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1 – England has won only one of the five bilateral ODI series they played on South African soil thus far. (2-1 win in 3-match ODI series in 2009). They came close to a series win in 2016 after taking a 2-0 lead in the 5-match series before losing three straight matches going down 2-3.

10-1 – South Africa has lost only one of their last 12 ODI matches played at home which came against England earlier this year when the visitors defeated them by two wickets in Johannesburg.

South Africa, in fact, have not lost a bilateral ODI series they played in any country since the 1-5 defeat at home against India in 2018. South Africa played seven bilateral ODI series since that defeat and won six of them including three whitewashes.

19.63 – Jason Roy has a batting average of 19.63 in ODIs against South Africa; the only opponent against which he averages less than 25 in this format. (Min: 100 runs) Roy scored 216 runs against the Proteas in 11 ODI innings with one fifty.

Roy has a batting average of 21.28 in South Africa in ODI cricket; the lowest for him in any nation in the format. The England opener has scored only 149 runs across seven ODI innings in South Africa with a best of 48.

40.90 – Adil Rashid’s bowling average in ODI cricket against South Africa is the 2nd lowest for him against any opposition. The leg-spinner has picked only ten wickets across the 11 ODIs he played against the Proteas.

65.27 – Batting average of Quinton de Kock in the ODI cricket against England; the highest for him against any opponent in this format. (Min: 2 innings) De Kock scored 714 runs with help of three hundreds and three fifties against England across 12 ODI games.

656 – Kevin Pietersen’s 656 runs in ODI cricket against South Africa are the most runs for any England player in ODIs. Both Joe Root and Eoin Morgan have a chance to go past Pietersen in the coming ODI series as they scored 594 and 574 runs respectively in ODIs against the Proteas.