0 Number of Indian batsmen to have
aggregated 1,000 runs in Twenty20 Internationals before Virat Kohli.
1 First Twenty20 International hundred
on the Indian soil came off Rohit Sharma’s bat. Interestingly he had also
scored the first Twenty20 hundred on the Indian soil when he made 101 for
Mumbai against Gujarat in 2007.
4 Number of Indian bowlers to concede 40
or more runs in the match. First time this has happened for India.
7 Number of sixes hit by JP Duminy- most
by any batsman hitting no / one boundary in a Twenty20 International. Also the
most sixes hit by a batsman against India.
9 Number of batsmen who have scored a
hundred in each of three formats of international cricket – Tests, One-Day
Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals. Rohit now joins Chris Gayle,
Brendon McCullum, Suresh Raina, Mahela Jayawardene, Tillakaratne Dilshan,
Martin Guptill, Ahmed Shehzad and Faf du Plessis.
11 Number of Twenty20 Internationals hosted
by India. All eleven have been played at 11 different grounds!
20 Number of sixes hit in the match – 11
for India and 9 for South Africa – most in a Twenty20 International in India.
27 Number of innings taken by Virat Kohli
to reach 1,000 run-mark in Twenty20 Internationals – least among all 20
batsmen. The previous record was of 32 innings shared by Kevin Pietersen and
Alex Hales.
31 Years 177 days – Sreenath Arvind’s age
on debut. Only Rahul Dravid (38 years 232 days) and Sachin Tendulkar (33 years
221 days) made T20I debut for India at an older age.
50 Number of Twenty20 Internationals for MS
Dhoni as captain- first player to captain his side in 50 matches. He is also
the only one to play 200 Twenty20 matches as captain.
67 Runs scored by South Africa in the
powerplay – third most by any side against India after Australia’s 74/1 (Rajkot
2013) and Sri Lanka’s 73/1 (Mohali 2009).
106 Rohit Sharma’s innings – highest by an
Indian in a Twenty20 International, surpassing Suresh Raina’s 101* also against
South Africa at Gros Islet in 2010.
138 Runs added by Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli
for the second wicket – India’s highest partnership for any wicket in Twenty20
Internationals. Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag had put on 136 runs for the
first wicket against England at Durban in 2007.
199 India’s total – their highest against South
Africa. Also the highest ever they failed to defend.
1015 Virat Kohli’s run-aggregate in Twenty20
Internationals– highest for any batsman without ever getting out for a duck.
-RAJNEESH GUPTA
