Stats: Ajinkya Rahane's successful tour of West Indies

The 28-year-old will be aiming to go past 300 runs in the series as he aggregated 297 runs so far which gives him an opportunity to do so for the first time in his career.

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India’s Ajinkya Rahane. (Photo by JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

Not long ago, Ajinkya Rahane couldn’t find a place in the Indian ODI XI but when he got the chance in the West Indies tour, the classy batsman completely utilised the series by scoring fifty in each of the 4 games so far. Rahane began the series with a 62 in the opening contest and followed it with a century (103) in the 43-over game.

While the top order struggled in the 3rd ODI, the Mumbai batsman put up a gritty show for his 72 to help Team India reach a decent total. In the 4th ODI, India struggled to score runs in pursuit of a small target but the right-hander scored yet another fifty (60) to support the team’s cause.

With 4 fifty-plus scores in 4 innings, Rahane became only the 3rd Indian opener to score 50+ in 4 consecutive ODI innings. Sachin Tendulkar and Manoj Prabhakar are the other two who scored over fifty in 4 successive ODI innings as openers.

Consecutive fifty-plus scores as openers in ODIs for India:

PlayerSpanNumber of innings
Sachin TendulkarNovember 19945
Manoj PrabhakarOctober 1994 – April 19954
Sachin TendulkarFebruary – March 20034
Sachin TendulkarFebruary 1996 – March 19964
Ajinkya RahaneJune 2017 – July 20174*

 

By scoring 4 fifties in the series, Rahane became the 6th Indian to score 4 fifty-plus scores in an ODI series. With one more game to be played in the series, he can aim to become the first Indian to score 5 fifty-plus scores in a bilateral ODI series.

4 fifty-plus scores by Indians in a bilateral ODI series:

PlayerInnsRunsAvg100s50s50+ scoresSeries
SR Tendulkar737453.42044India in England, 2007
Yuvraj Singh527268044Pakistan in India, 2007
V Sehwag531462.8044England in India, 2008
SK Raina427792.33044England in India, 2013
V Kohli5344114.7224Australia in India, 2013
V Kohli538176.2224India in Australia, 2016
AM Rahane429774.25134India in West Indies, 2017

 

Rahane also became the first Indian player and only the 7th overall to score four fifty-plus scores in a bilateral series on West Indies soil. Out of the seven players, only three are from a visiting team including the makeshift Indian opener.

Most fifty-plus scores in a bilateral ODI series in West Indies:

PlayerTeamInnsRunsAvg100s50s50+ scoresSeries
DL Haynes West Indies5404134.7224New Zealand in West Indies, 1985
RB Richardson West Indies532180.25044Pakistan in West Indies, 1988
CL Hooper West Indies529072.5044Australia in West Indies, 1995
HH Dippenaar South Africa5317105.7134South Africa in West Indies, 2005
LMP Simmons West Indies527969.75044Pakistan in West Indies, 2011
Misbah-ul-Haq Pakistan526065044Pakistan in West Indies, 2013
AM Rahane India429774.25134India in West Indies, 2017

 

The 28-year-old will be aiming to go past 300 runs in the series as he aggregated 297 runs so far which gives him an opportunity to do so for the first time in his career. During the 4th ODI, Rahane went past Rohit Sharma, who holds the record for most runs scored in an ODI series/tournament in West Indies with his 257-run effort in 2011 series.

Most runs scored by Indians in an ODI series/tournament in West Indies:

PlayerInnsRunsHSAveS/R100s50sSeries
AM Rahane429710374.377.113India in West Indies, 2017
RG Sharma525786*1298603India in West Indies, 2011
V Sehwag52379747.495.602India in West Indies, 2006
RG Sharma52176054.361.602Tri Nation Series, 2013
M Kaif520566*51.367.903India in West Indies, 2006

 

(Stats as on July 3, 2017)

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