Debutant Kagiso Rabada's hat-trick ensures a cruising victory for the Proteas, Bangladesh v South Africa 1st ODI- Statistical Review

Debutant Kagiso Rabada’s hat-trick ensures a cruising victory for the Proteas, Bangladesh v South Africa 1st ODI- Statistical Review: After being beaten in the T20 series, the Bangladeshi side looked to put back some fight to ensure getting back into winning ways in the first ODI against South Africa but as it happened, in the rain intervened match, Bangladesh suffered yet another tormenting defeat. In the 40-over a side match, Bangladesh was bundled for a total of 160 runs on the board, courtesy Kagiso Rabada who made a sound debut in the international cricket by striking in a hat-trick and also clinching 6 wickets for the Proteas. In reply, South Africa attained the target with sheer comfort and won the match quite comprehensively by 8 wickets. Let us take a glance at the statistical aspects of the match.

The Match in Numbers:

• Number of Fours hit by Bangladesh/South Africa: 14/19
• Number of Sixes hit by Bangladesh/South Africa: 1/1
• Total number of wide deliveries bowled by Bangladesh/South Africa: 1/10
• Number of dot deliveries bowled by Bangladesh/South Africa: 103/136
• Runs Scored by Bangladesh/South Africa in the first 8 overs: Bangladesh – 42/4 and South Africa – 33/1
• Highest Run Scorer of the match: Faf du Plessis (63* runs off 75 deliveries with 7 fours)
• Highest wicket taker of the match: Kagiso Rabada (8-3-16-6)
• Total runs scored in the match: 324/12 in 67.4 overs

The other statistical facts:

• Kagiso Rabada became the second bowler to strike a fifer in his ODI debut for South Africa. The first person to do so was Allan Donald against India in 1991.
• Shakib-Al-Hasan has scored 2034 runs in ODIs at Mirpur. He became the first Bangladeshi batsman to score over 2000 runs at a single venue for Bangladesh.
• This marked the second time when 3 out of the top 4 batsmen of Bangladesh have been dismissed for a duck. The first one came against Sri Lanka in the 2003 World Cup.
• Kagiso Rabada became the second bowler in the history of ODI cricket to strike a hat-trick in his debutant match. The first person to strike a hat-trick on debut was Taijul Islam of Bangladesh.
• Kagiso Rabada became the fifth youngest debutant for South Africa in ODI cricket. He is aged 20 years and 46 days.
• Rabada’s hat-trick marked the 39^th hat-trick in the history of ODI cricket.
• Rabada now has the best bowling figures by any bowler on debut. He bagged 6/16 today. The previous best was held by West Indies pacer Jerome Taylor with 6/22.
• South Africa’s opening stand is having a lean patch. The opening pair averages 16.91 since the record breaking centurion stand between Amla and Russouw of 247 runs.
• It was Mortaza’s 8^th loss as the captain of Bangladesh team in 23 matches. He has won 15 of those.
• It was Hashim Amla’s 4^th victory as the skipper of the South African side in 7 ODIs.