South Africa v Bangladesh, T20I series 2017 – Statistical Preview

South Africa completely annihilated Bangladesh in the two-match Test series and the 3-match ODI series as the visiting side never looked threatening about winning any game at any point. They will look to add something in their wins other than toss during the 2-match T20I series starting on Thursday.

Here we look at key stats and numbers ahead of the series.

1 – Number of T20Is collectively hosted by Bloemfontein and Potchefstroom; the venues for this T20I series. Bloemfontein hosted a T20I between South Africa and Zimbabwe in 2008 while Potchefstroom will make its T20I debut in this series.

4 – Number of T20Is between South Africa and Bangladesh so far. South Africa have won all the four T20Is comfortably. Two of them were hosted by South Africa and two by Bangladesh.

4 – Number of T20Is both South Africa and Bangladesh have lost in 2017 so far. South Africa won three out of the seven they have played while Bangladesh won one out five.

249 – Number of sixes AB de Villiers has hit in Twenty20 cricket so far. He needs one more six to complete 250 sixes in T20 format.

906 – David Miller has scored 906 runs in his T20I career so far. He has scored 865 runs for South Africa and 41 runs for World XI. Only four South Africans have aggregated over 1000 runs in T20I cricket.

994 – Runs Soumya Sarkar has scored in the Twenty20 cricket. He needs six more runs to complete 1000 Twenty20 runs.

1985 – Hashim Amla has scored 1985 runs in International cricket in 2017. He needs 15 more runs to become the first player with 2000 International runs this year.

2010 – The last instance of Shakib Al Hasan leading Bangladesh in T20I cricket was in the 2010 WT20. He captained Bangladesh in four T20Is with his team losing in all of them. Since the start of 2012, Shakib has Bangladesh in only three ODIs.

5841 – Runs AB de Villiers scored in his Twenty20 career so far. He needs 159 more runs to complete 6000 T20 runs. De Villiers needs exactly 100 runs to complete 27000 runs in his professional career.