Windies v India 5th ODI – Statistical Highlights

Team India sealed the series by a 3-1 margin with a convincing win in the 5th and final ODI over Windies by an 8-wicket margin at Kingston. India restricted Windies to a mere total of 205/9 yet again and a couple of early wickets suggested we might be in for a replay of the previous game where they lost while chasing 190. However, captain Virat Kohli manned the responsibility and took his side over the victory line with yet another ODI century.

Here we look at all the stats and records created during the game.

2 – Number of centuries Virat Kohli has scored in ODIs on West Indies soil. He is the only Indian to score more than one ODI hundred in West Indies.

4 – He is the 4th Indian captain to lose all the 5 tosses in a 5-match bilateral series. MS Dhoni was the last skipper to score a hundred during the 2011 series in England.

6 – Number of 4-wicket hauls Mohammed Shami has taken in ODI cricket so far; the most 4-fers in ODIs for any Indian and joint 4th most for any player since his debut in 2013.

7 – Number of consecutive bilateral ODI series wins for India over West Indies. They have won their last 3 ODI series’ on Windies soil.

8 – India’s 8-wicket win in this game is their 2nd biggest in terms of wickets in ODIs in West Indies. India won by 10 wickets over Windies in 1997.

9 – Number of times Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten century while chasing in ODIs; the most by any player. Sachin Tendulkar has 8 unbeaten hundreds in ODI chases.

18 – Number of centuries Virat Kohli has scored while chasing in ODI cricket; the most by any player. He went past Sachin Tendulkar who scored 17 tons in ODI chases.

23 – Number of Man of the Match awards for Virat in ODI cricket so far; the joint-most number of MoM awards for any player. Tillakaratne Dilshan also received 23 MoMs in ODIs in this period.

28 – Number of centuries for Virat Kohli in ODIs; the joint 3rd most by any player. He is the quickest (181 innings) among the 4 players to score the 28th ODI hundred.

32 – Number of centuries Virat Kohli has scored in List A cricket so far; the 7th most by any player. He is the quickest (181 innings) among the 4 players to score 28 ODI hundreds.

336 – Runs Ajinkya Rahane has scored in this series; the most by any Indian in an ODI series against Windies. He went past VVS Laxman who scored 312 runs in 2002 home series over WI.

336 – Ajinkya Rahane’s tally of 336 in this series is the 3rd most by a visiting batsman in a bilateral ODI series in West Indies. He is only behind Hashim Amla who scored 402 in 2010 and Geoff Marsh who scored 349 in 1991.