India v Australia, 2017: 2nd T20I – Statistical Highlights

Australia managed to level the series ending their losing streak against India at the Guwahati’s Barsapara Stadium, the 49th International venue of India. The left-arm pacer Jason Behrendorff dismissed India’s top four cheaply as they ended up with only 118 on the board. Moises Henriques and Travis Head took Australia home with an unbeaten 109-run stand for the 3rd wicket after their openers got out early.

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

1 – Virat Kohli became the first Indian captain to be dismissed for a duck in 85 T20I matches. The previous lowest dismissed score for an Indian captain is ‘1’ by MS Dhoni in 2012 against Pakistan in Bangalore.

1 – This is Australia’s first win in T20I cricket against India in eight matches. This is also their first T20I win against India in India as they lost all their previous four T20Is.

4/21 – Behrendorff became the first Australian to bag a 4-wicket haul in the powerplay overs of a T20I. His figures of 4/21 are the 5th best for Australia and the 5th best by anyone against India in this format.

4 – Number of wickets India lost in the powerplay of this game. These are the most India lost in powerplay of a T20I game. India lost four wickets in the powerplay against Australia (3.2 overs) in Melbourne, 2008 against New Zealand (4.5 overs) in Nagpur, 2016 and against Australia (5.0 overs) in Bridgetown, 2010.

16 – India’s top four aggregate of 16 runs in this game is the lowest for them in a T20I. Their top four collectively accumulated 18 runs in the Melbourne T20I in 2008 also against Australia.

42 – Number of balls Moises Henriques took to complete his fifty. This is the 2nd slowest fifty in India-Australia T20Is with the slowest off 54 balls by Gautam Gambhir in 2012 at Melbourne.

48 – The inning in which Virat Kohli bagged his first duck in T20I cricket. These are the most number of innings a player batted before recording his first duck in this format.

101 – Virat Kohli became the 3rd Indian after Suresh Raina (132) and Rohit Sharma (101) to take 100 catches as a fielder in Twenty20 cricket. Overall, he is the 18th fielder in Twenty20 cricket with 100 catches.

2011 – The last instance when MS Dhoni got out stumped in an International game was in the 2011 World Cup against Windies at Chennai. This game is only the 5th instance when he got stumped in International cricket.