Wednesday 27 November 2013

India won the decider

India have been masterful while chasing in ODIs this year, and against a moderate total and a mediocre West Shikhar Dhawan hit his fifth ODI hundred of his magical year and the struggling Yuvraj Singh hit his first ODI half-century in 11 innings as India cruised to their sixth successive one-day series win of the year.
Indies attack, they ambled to victory in the series-deciding third ODI in Kanpur.

Scorecard: http://www.espncricinfo.com/india-v-west-indies-2013-14/engine/match/676533.html

Smart stats

  • Virat Kohli was Ravi Rampaul's 100th ODI wicket. Rampaul was playing his 80th match, making him the sixth fastest to the landmark among West Indies bowlers. Curtly Ambrose and Ian Bishop, who took 61 matches, are the fastest.
  • Shikhar Dhawan hit the fifth ODI hundred of his career and all of them have come in 2013. He leads the list of batsmen with most centuries in international cricket this year.
  • The West Indies batsmen made eight fifty-plus scores in this series, the most they have hit in any three-ODI series.
  • The 129-run partnership between Dhawan and Yuvraj Singh was the highest for the third wicket at this venue, beating the 105 added by Chetan Sharma and Navjot Sidhu against England in 1989.
  • Darren Bravo scored his third half-century of the series and became the first West Indies batsman since Ramnaresh Sarwan in 2011 (also against India) to hit three or more fifty-plus scores in an ODI series.
  • India achieved the highest successful run chase at Green Park, Kanpur, beating the 256 they chased against England in 1989.
  • The series victory was India's sixth in a row in ODIs, equalling their longest sequence of series wins before this, starting with the bilateral series in Sri Lanka in 2008 and ending with the Compaq Cup tri-series in 2009.

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