India vs West Indies, 2019: 3rd ODI – Statistical Preview

India came back strong in the Vizag ODI with help of Rohit Sharma’s 159 to level the series with a comfortable 107-run win. The series will conclude on Sunday in Cuttack where the West Indies aim for their first ODI series win against India since 2006. The last instance of the Caribbean team winning a series against India in India was way back in 2002. Indian skipper Virat Kohli would be eager to make it count with the bat having scored only four runs in the series thus far.

All the key stats and numbers ahead of the decider of the 3-match ODI series in Cuttack:

6 – India won all the six ODI matches they played at the Cuttack’s Barabati Stadium in the last 15 years. India’s last ODI defeat at this venue came back in 2003 against New Zealand when the Kiwis chased down the target of 247 for the loss of six wickets.

6 – Shreyas Iyer has six fifties from nine innings in his ODI career thus far. No other player in ODI cricket has six fifty-plus scores in their first nine ODI innings.

11 – Virat Kohli has a batting average of 11 in ODI cricket at the Barabati Stadium; the lowest for him at any home venue in this format. The Indian skipper recorded scores of 3, 22 and 8 in the three ODI appearances at this venue.

Across four International matches in Cuttack, Kohli scored 34 runs at an average of 8.5; the lowest average for him at any venue in International cricket where he played more than two innings.

41 – Mohammed Shami has picked up 41 wickets in ODI cricket this year; the most by any player. His 41 wickets are the most by an Indian pacer in a calendar year in ODI format since Irfan Pathan’s 47 wickets in 2003. Shami has taken 41 wickets from 20 ODIs in 2019 at a strike rate of 24.4 and an average of 21.58.

52.5 – Rohit Sharma has a batting average of 52.5 in the ten bilateral ODI series-deciders he has featured in. While batting first, he scored 428 runs in four innings at an average of 107 with help of two big hundreds and a fifty but while chasing he has only 97 runs at an average 16.17 with the best of 56.

63 – Virat Kohli’s batting average in ODI series deciders since 2016. He scored 315 runs across five deciders in this period with a century and two fifties – 65, 113, 71, 46 and 20.

99 – Number of wickets for Kuldeep Yadav in his 55-match ODI career. Kuldeep needs to take one more wicket in the next ODI match he plays for becoming the joint-quickest Indian to reach 100 ODI wickets. He will then equal Mohammed Shami’s record as the pacer needed 56 matches for this milestone.

956 – Shai Hope needs 44 more runs to complete 1000 ODI runs in Asia. He has scored 956 runs across 13 innings in Asia at a batting average of 136.57 with five centuries and three fifties. He has scored 635 runs in seven chases in Asia at an average of 317.5 with four tons and two half-centuries.

8881 – Rohit Sharma needs 119 runs to complete 9000 runs in ODI cricket. If Rohit scores those 119 runs in Cuttack ODI, he will become the 3rd fastest to 9000 ODI runs after Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers.

Rohit needs 86 more runs to complete 7000 ODI runs as an opener having scored 6914 runs while opening the innings thus far.

12966 – Runs Virat Kohli has scored in List A cricket thus far. He is 34 runs away from completing 13000 runs in List A cricket. Kohli scored only four runs in two matches in the ongoing series.