India vs Australia 2019, 3rd ODI – Statistical Highlights

Australia manages to edge past India by 32 runs in the do-or-die Ranchi ODI to stay alive in this 5-match ODI series. The opening pair set up the game for the Aussies as Usman Khawaja (104) and Aaron Finch (93) added 193 in 31.5 overs. Once again, India were three down in a very quick time but skipper Virat Kohli kept the chase on with a gutsy inning. He scored 123 off just 95 balls as the hosts fancied their chances to a series win before the Australians pulled the things back.

Here are all the major stats and numbers recorded during a high-scoring ODI in Ranchi:

A game of captains:

216– Runs aggregated by the captains in this game – 93 by Aaron Finch and 123 by Virat Kohli. This is the first ever India-Australia ODI game with an aggregate of 200+ run by captains of either team. The previous highest aggregate by captains in an IND-AUS ODI was 193 runs during the 1996 game in Bangalore.

Overall, the 213 runs are the 10th highest aggregate by captains of both the teams in an ODI game. The highest is 278 when Angelo Mathews and Virat Kohli scored exactly 139* apiece which was also during an ODI at the JSCA Stadium, Ranchi in 2014.

Kohli keeps on piling records:

4096 – Runs Virat Kohli has scored in the ODI format as captain. He is only the 12th player and the 4th Indian to score over 4000 ODI runs as captain. Kohli is the fastest to the milestone taking only 63 innings.

List of records Virat Kohli created with his 123-run knock against Australia in Ranchi

Rohit betters Afridi:

350 – Number of sixes Rohit Sharma has hit in his International career. He became only the 6th player and the 2nd Indian to hit 350 International sixes. Rohit is the quickest among the six players to smash 350 sixes as he reached it 331 innings. Shahid Afridi was the previous quickest having needed 367 innings.

A rare ton from Khawaja:

32y 80d – At the age of 32 years and 80 days, Usman Khawaja became the 2nd oldest Australian to score his maiden ODI century. Adam Voges was 33y 129d old at the time for his maiden ODI ton in 2013.

1 – Khawaja’s century is the first individual ODI century for Australia to result in a victory since the start of 2018. Each of the previous seven individual ODI tons by Australians resulted in defeats.

A record total:

100 – Australia’s total of 313/5 is their 100th total of 300+ in ODI cricket. Only India (106) has more 300+ totals than Aussies in this format.

313/5 – The total of 313/5 is the first ever 300+ total conceded by India in an ODI when both Jasprit Bumrah and Kuldeep Yadav were in the playing XI. In the previous 24 instances of both players featuring in an ODI, the highest total India conceded was 293/6 also against Australia in the 2017 Indore ODI.