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WI v IND 2017 News

Dhoni's record crawl

108

No. of balls taken by MS Dhoni to reach his fifty - his slowest in ODIs and also the slowest by any India batsman since 2001.

Sachin, Sehwag, Rahane

3

No. of India openers to make 4 50+ scores in a bilateral ODI series - Tendulkar in Natwest Series in Eng 2007, Sehwag v Eng at home in 2008 and Rahane in this series.

Rahane's series

257

Previous most runs by an India player in any ODI series/tournament in West Indies, by Rohit Sharma in 2011. Rahane has gone past that in this series.

Where are the boundaries?

83

No. of consecutive balls played by West Indies without hitting a boundary. The last boundary was hit in first ball of 36th over and nothing since then till the end.

Failed starts

2

No. of times WI's top-4 were all dismissed between scores of 20 and 40, including today. The first was against Australia in Kingston in 2003.

Decent start

3

No. of times since 2015, in 40 ODIs, West Indies' opening partnership has lasted for more than 10 overs, including today.

Only tosses

4

No. of tosses won by West Indies in this series, in the 4 games. But they are yet to win a game.

Shami's comeback

2015

Last time Mohammad Shami appeared in ODIs for India, in the semi-final loss against Australia in 2015 World Cup. He's back in place of Bhuvneshwar in this game.