Despite their loss in the fifth and final ODI, Team India won the series against England by a 3-2 margin. The hosts’ campaign was fuelled by Suresh Raina, who ended up winning his first ever Man of the Series award. The southpaw seemed invincible as he brought up a half-century in each of the four innings he played against England.
Raina also went past the 4000-run mark during today’s match and is now the 13th Indian batter to get past this milestone in ODIs. Here are these and many more stats highlights from today’s game:
- The Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamsala became the 43rd Indian ground to host an ODI.
- Suresh Raina, when on 15, completed his 4000 runs in one-day internationals. He became the 85th batsman in the world and the 13th Indian to accomplish this feat. He is the fourth Indian left-hander, after Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh and Gautam Gambhir to do so.
- Raina’s 83 was his fourth consecutive fifty in ODIs. He thus equalled the Indian record of most consecutive ODI fifties against England. Rahul Dravid and MS Dhoni shared this record previously.
Most consecutive fifties by Indian batsmen against England:
|
50s |
Batsman |
From |
To |
Scores |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
4 |
Rahul Dravid |
11-Apr-1999 |
04-Jul-2002 |
63, 53, 73* & 82 |
|
4 |
MS Dhoni |
09-Sep-2011 |
14-Oct-2011 |
69, 78*, 50* & 87* |
|
4 |
Suresh Raina |
11-Jan-2013 |
27-Jan-2013 |
50, 55, 89* & 83 |
- Raina is the fourth Indian batsman to score four fifties in a bilateral series. Three of them have done so against England.
Most fifties in a bilateral series for India:
|
50s |
Batsman |
Series |
Series |
Inns |
Runs |
Hs |
Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
4 |
Sachin Tendulkar |
(NatWest Series in England) |
2007 |
7 |
374 |
99 |
53.43 |
|
4 |
Yuvraj Singh |
(v Pakistan in India) |
2007-08 |
5 |
272 |
77 |
68.00 |
|
4 |
Virender Sehwag |
(v England in India) |
2008-09 |
5 |
314 |
91 |
62.80 |
|
4 |
Suresh Raina |
(v England in India) |
2012-13 |
4 |
277 |
89* |
92.33 |
- Ravindra Jadeja, when on 11, completed his 1,000 runs in one-day internationals. He became the 33rd Indian to do so.
- Jadeja also completed the all-round double of 1000 runs and 50 wickets in ODIs. He is the third quickest among Indians to accomplish this feat, taking only 65 matches to do so. Only two Indians have completed the double in fewer matches than Jadeja.
Quickest to the all-round double of 1000 runs and 50 wickets (for India):
|
Player |
Matches |
|---|---|
|
Kapil Dev |
46 |
|
Ravi Shastri |
56 |
|
Ravindra Jadeja |
65 |
|
Irfan Pathan |
72 |
|
Robin Singh |
83 |
|
Manoj Prabhakar |
94 |
- Tim Bresnan (4/45) claimed four wickets for the second time in an ODI against India. He had taken 5/48 at Bangalore in the 2011 World Cup. Bresnan thus became the second England bowler to take two four-wicket hauls against India in ODIs, after Stuart Broad.
- Bresnan has now taken 17 wickets against India in India, equalling Andrew Flintoff’s England record of most wickets against India in India.
- Bell, when on 96 completed his 4000 runs in ODIs. He became the 86th batsman and 8th from England to reach this milestone.
- Ian Bell’s 113* was the highest individual score in the series from either side. This was also the first hundred scored in the series.
- This hundred was Bell’s third in ODIs – second against India.
- Suresh Raina won his maiden Man of the Series award.
