South Africa vs India ODI series, 2018 – Approaching milestones

South Africa-India battle now moves into the ODI leg but India’s challenge remains the same; winning an ODI series against South Africa in South Africa. The two teams occupying the top two position in the ICC ODI rankings are currently separated by one point. Both the teams are filled up with the specialists of the formats would be hoping to finish this 6-match series at No.1. The players on both the sides will be seen achieving new career milestones especially MS Dhoni, who has huge milestones at stake in batting and in keeping wickets as well.

All the approaching milestone to be looked out for ahead of the South Africa-India ODI series:

45 – Number wickets for Axar Patel in his ODI career so far. He needs five more wickets to complete 50 wickets in this format.

91 – Number of wickets for Mohammed Shami in ODI cricket so far. He needs nine more wickets to complete 100 ODI wickets. He will be the quickest Indian to complete the milestone if he takes those nine wickets in this series.

96 – Number of matches Shikhar Dhawan played in his ODI career. Dhawan needs to feature in four more ODIs to complete 100 ODI appearances. Dhawan also needs to hit 13 more fours to complete 500 fours in this format.

398 – Dismissals made by  MS Dhoni in ODI format so far. He needs two more dismissals to become the 4th keeper with 400 ODI dismissals. Dhoni also needs four more which will make him the 4th keeper with 600 dismissals.

1995 – Number of fours Hashim Amla hit in International cricket. He needs five more fours to complete 2000 fours in International cricket. He thus far hit 1982 fours for South Africa and 18 more fours will make him the 3rd player to hit 2000 fours for the Proteas.

3806 – Runs Quinton de Kock scored in his ODI career. He needs 194 more runs to complete the 4000-run milestone in this format. He will be the 3rd fastest to reach the milestone if he scores the 194 runs in his next two innings and the 4th fastest if he takes four innings.

9898 – Runs aggregated by MS Dhoni so far in his ODI career. He needs 102 more runs to complete 10000 runs in ODI cricket which makes him the 12th player and 4th Indian to achieve the milestone.