South Africa v Bangladesh, ODI series 2017 – Statistical Preview

Bangladesh will need to put on a huge effort to find any success away from home unlike the ease with which they got past oppositions in their own backyard and they learnt it with the Test series against South Africa where they couldn’t match the home side at any point. The Asian team can take the confidence of defeating the Saffers in their previous series and hope to get off the mark with a win against the home side.

Here we look at all the key stats ahead of the South Africa-Bangladesh ODI series.

2 – Number of 300+ totals in South Africa-Bangladesh ODI matches so far. South Africa scored 358/4 in 2008 at Benoni and 301/8 at Potchefstroom in 2002. Bangladesh’s highest against South Africa is 251/9 which they scored in the 2007 World Cup game.

3 – Number of ODI wins for Bangladesh outside Asia in 2017. They have played eight ODIs so far and won three and lost three with another two ending without a result.

4 – Number of bilateral ODI series South Africa and Bangladesh have played so far. South Africa won the first three without losing a game while Bangladesh won the recent most one in 2015 at home.

6 – South Africa and Bangladesh have faced off in six ODIs in South Africa so far with the home side winning all the six matches.

8 – Number of wickets Kagiso Rabada picked up in the previous ODI series between the two teams. He averaged 12.75 in the series which includes a 6/16 on debut where he picked up a hat-trick as well.

Head to head between South Africa and Bangladesh in ODI cricket:

14 – Number of consecutive ODI matches South Africa have won at home. Their last loss in an ODI at home was in January 2016 against England. No other side has won more than 12 consecutive ODIs at home.

71 – AB de Villiers’ batting average in ODI cricket against Bangladesh is 71. He has scored 213 runs against them in five innings with two fifties. Bangladesh’s Soumya Sarkar scored 205 runs in the previous series between the two teams at an average of 102.5 in the three innings.

90 – Soumya Sarkar’s 90 in the last ODI between the two sides in 2015 is the highest individual score for a Bangladesh player in ODI cricket against South Africa. In the previous game, Sarkar scored an unbeaten 88 which is the 2nd highest for a Bangladesh player against SA.