In England-like conditions in Mohali, Team India managed to pull off a comfortable five-wicket win over the visiting English side. While this game gave the hosts a convincing 3-1 series win with a game to go, it also gave Indian skipper MS Dhoni his 77th win as captain. He’s now surpassed Sourav Ganguly’s tally of 76 wins and is second only to Mohammad Azharuddin, who led India to 90 ODI victories.
This game also marked the 50th time Dhoni lead the Indian team on home soil. Here are these and many more stats highlights from today’s game:
This match was the 18th day-night ODI at PCA Stadium, Mohali – the most for an Indian ground. Mohali was earlier at level with M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore with 17 day-night matches.
Most day-night ODIs at an Indian ground:
|
Ground |
Matches |
|---|---|
|
Punjab C.A. Stadium, Mohali |
18 |
|
M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore |
17 |
|
Eden Gardens, Kolkata |
16 |
|
MA Chidambaram Stadium (Chepauk), Chennai |
12 |
|
Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai |
12 |
|
Sardar Patel (Gujarat) Stadium (Motera), Ahmedabad |
11 |
|
Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur |
9 |
|
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi |
7 |
|
Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad |
7 |
MS Dhoni was captaining India for the 50th time in an ODI on home soil. He became only the second player to do so after Mohammad Azharuddin, who led India in a record 58 ODIs at home. Sri Lanka’s Arjuna Ranatunga holds the record for an overseas captain to lead his team on Indian soil for the most number of times. Australia’s Ricky Ponting has the best record among players captaining their sides on 25 or more occasions on Indian soil.
Most ODIs as captain on Indian soil:
|
Players |
Mts |
Won |
Lost |
Tied |
NR |
Win% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
M Azharuddin (Ind) |
58 |
40 |
17 |
1 |
0 |
68.97 |
|
MS Dhoni (Ind) |
50 |
31 |
16 |
1 |
2 |
62.00 |
|
Sourav Ganguly (Ind) |
36 |
18 |
18 |
0 |
0 |
50.00 |
|
Rahul Dravid (Ind) |
36 |
21 |
13 |
0 |
2 |
58.33 |
|
Arjuna Ranatunga (SL) |
33 |
14 |
18 |
0 |
1 |
42.42 |
|
Kapil Dev (Ind) |
32 |
18 |
13 |
0 |
1 |
56.25 |
|
Ricky Ponting (Aus) |
28 |
21 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
75.00 |
Kevin Pietersen has now aggregated 4363 runs in ODIs, which puts him in third place among England’s leading run-getters, after Paul Collingwood (5092) and Alec Stewart (4677). Pietersen went ahead of Marcus Trescothick (4335) and Graham Gooch (4290).
Joe Root (57*) became the youngest England batsman to score an ODI fifty against India at 22 years and 24 days. Mike Atherton – at 22 years and 119 days – held the previous record.
Rohit Sharma (83) opened the innings for only fourth time in his ODI career. The previous three occasions were all against South Africa in South Africa, in January 2011. Rohit’s scores in those matches were 23 (off 45 balls) at Cape Town, 1 (off 6 balls) at Port Elizabeth and 5 (off 8 balls) at Centurion.
Rohit Sharma, on 22, completed 2000 runs in ODIs. He became the 22nd Indian to do so.
By taking 82 innings, Rohit became the third slowest among Indian batters to reach the 2000-run landmark. Only Robin Singh (94) and Kapil Dev (92) took more innings than Rohit to accomplish this feat.
Yuvraj Singh was dismissed by James Tredwell for the fourth consecutive time in the series.
Suresh Raina (89*) scored his third consecutive fifty in the series – fifth in last 10 matches and fourth in last five matches against England.
India’s 258/5 is the third highest successful chase by any side at Mohali, after Pakistan’s 322/6 vs India in 2007 and India’s 300/5 vs England in 2011.
This was MS Dhoni’s 77th ODI win as Indian captain, which puts him ahead of Sourav Ganguly (76). Only Mohammad Azharuddin leads Dhoni in this respect, with 90 wins.
Most successful Indian Captains:
|
Captain |
Mts |
Won |
Lost |
Tied |
NR |
Win% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
M Azharuddin |
174 |
90 |
76 |
2 |
6 |
51.72 |
|
MS Dhoni |
134 |
77 |
46 |
3 |
8 |
57.46 |
|
Sourav Ganguly |
146 |
76 |
65 |
0 |
5 |
52.05 |
|
Rahul Dravid |
79 |
42 |
33 |
0 |
4 |
53.16 |
|
Kapil Dev |
74 |
39 |
33 |
0 |
2 |
52.70 |
|
Sachin Tendulkar |
73 |
23 |
43 |
1 |
6 |
31.51 |
|
Sunil Gavaskar |
37 |
14 |
21 |
0 |
2 |
37.84 |
|
Ajay Jadeja |
13 |
8 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
61.54 |
|
Dilip Vengsarkar |
18 |
8 |
10 |
0 |
0 |
44.44 |
|
Virender Sehwag |
12 |
7 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
58.33 |
India have now beaten England in 19 out of the last 22 ODIs at home. England have won only two, while one match ended in a tie.
By winning this match, India also won the series. They have now beaten England in four consecutive bilateral series at home – by 5-1 in 2005-06, 5-0 in 2008-09, 5-0 in 2010-11 and 3-1 in 2012-13 (with one match still to go).
It was the ninth time that India won a bilateral series (of minimum 3 matches) after losing the first match of the series. The last such occasion was against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka in 2008.
Suresh Raina won his ninth Man of the Match award – four of these have come against England.
