5 Number of players to score ODI
hundreds against all other nine Test playing countries. Virat Kohli joined
Ricky Ponting, Herschelle Gibbs, Sachin Tendulkar and Hashim Amla in
accomplishing this feat.
7 Number of boundaries (fours and sixes)
hit by the Indian batsmen between over # 31 and 40, exactly as many Indian
batsmen hit in the same phase in previous three matches combined!
18 Number of innings taken by AB de
Villiers to complete his 1000 runs in ODIs on Indian soil – fewest for any
batsman. Chris Gayle held the previous record having taken 21 innings to do so.
22 Number of ODI hundreds scored by AB de
Villiers – most by a South African batsman. He was earlier at level with
Herschelle Gibbs and Hashim Amla with 21 hundreds.
76.71 AB de Villiers’ average in ODIs in the year
2015. Only two batsmen had a higher batting average while completing 1000 runs
in a calendar year – Kumar Sangakkara with 79.46 in 2013 and Virat Kohli with
77.15 in 2012 (calculated till the end of innings in which milestone was
achieved).
91.30 India’s win-percentage in matches where Virat
Kohli scored a hundred – 21 wins in 23 matches. Among all batsmen with 20 or
more hundreds, Kohli has the highest win-percentage for hundreds scored. He is
followed by Hashim Amla with 90.48% win record.
100 Percent –AB de Villiers has kept his record
of scoring a hundred at a strike-rate of 100 intact.
138 Virat Kohli’s innings is now the highest by
any Indian batsman in ODIs at Chepauk, beating MS Dhoni’s unbeaten 113 against
Pakistan in 2012.
