AUS v IND 2020-21: 2nd ODI - Statistical Highlights

All the major stats and facts from the second ODI between Australia and India in Sydney.

Virat Kohli has completed 22,000 runs in international cricket. (Photo - Getty Images)

Australia beat India by 51 runs in the second ODI at Sydney Cricket Ground in Sydney yesterday and clinched the series with a lead of 2-0 in the three-match series. 

Earlier Australia won the toss and opted to bat first. Aaron Finch and David Warner continued their good form and added 142 runs for the opening wicket. Both Finch and Warner scored their fifties and got out.

In-form Steve Smith continued from where he left and once again smashed 62 balls hundred and put India at sea and in the end, Glenn Maxwell's quickfire knock of 63* off 29 balls and Marnus Labuschange's fifty helped Australia to post a big total of 389/4 on the board. 

In reply, India started well but both Shikhar Dhawan and Mayank Agarwal couldn't convert their starts and got out in the 30s. Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer took the score to over 150 runs but Iyer too failed to convert his start. Kohli brought up his fifty but he couldn't convert it into three figures and got out for 89 runs. KL Rahul played some shots but his knock of 76 runs came to an end in Zampa's over and eventually India finished on 338/9 and lost the match and series. For Australia, Pat Cummins took 3 wickets. 

All the major stats and facts from the second ODI between Australia and India in Sydney : 

5 - Steve Smith scored his 5th ODI hundred against India - the second most ODI hundreds for Australia against India.

Most ODI hundreds for AUS against IND -

6 - Ricky Ponting

5 - Steve Smith

4 - Aaron Finch

12 - Number of hundred or more runs opening partnerships David Warner and Aaron Finch have put in ODI cricket - the joint fifth-most in the world. 

Most hundred-run opening partnerships in ODI cricket -

21 - S Tendulkar / S Ganguly (IND)

16 - R Sharma / S Dhawan (IND)

16 - A Gilchrist / M Hayden (AUS)

15 - G Greenidge / D Haynes (WI)

12 - A Finch / D Warner (AUS)

12 - S Tendulkar / V Sehwag (IND)

62 - Steve Smith scored his hundred in just 62 balls - the third fastest ODI hundred for Australia. He scored 62 balls hundred in the first ODI too

Fastest ODI hundreds for Australia (By Balls) -

51 - Glenn Maxwell vs SL at Sydney, 2015

57 - James Faulkner vs IND at Bangalore, 2013

62 - Steve Smith vs IND at Sydney, 2020

62 - Steve Smith vs IND at Sydney, 2020

66 - Matthew Hayden vs WI at St Kitts, 2007

250 - This was Virat Kohli's 250th ODI match of career. He became the eighth Indian player to play 250 or more ODI matches. 

Most ODI matches for India -

463 - Sachin Tendulkar

347 - MS Dhoni

340 - Rahul Dravid

334 - Mohammad Azharuddin

308 - Sourav Ganguly

301 - Yuvraj Singh

269 - Anil Kumble

250 - Virat Kohli 

389/4 - Runs total is the highest ever total for Australia against India in ODI cricket and the overall third-highest total by a team against India in this format. 

Highest Totals for AUS against IND in ODI cricket -

389/4 at Sydney, 2020

374/6 at Sydney, 2020

359/2 at Johannesburg, 2003

359/5 at Sydney, 2004

359/5 at Jaipur, 2013

359/6 at Mohali, 2019 

Highest Totals against IND in ODI cricket -

438/4 - SA at Mumbai, 2015

411/8 - SL at Rajkot, 2009

389/4 - AUS at Sydney, 2020

374/6 - AUS at Sydney, 2020

366/8 - ENG at Cuttack, 2017

2000 - Virat Kohli when on 69, completed 2000 ODI runs against Australia - third Indian batsman to achieve this milestone.

Most ODI runs for IND against Australia -

3077 - Sachin Tendulkar

2208 - Rohit Sharma

2020 - Virat Kohli

1660 - MS Dhoni

1249 - Shikhar Dhawan 

Most ODI runs for Virat Kohli against a team -

2235 vs West Indies

2220 vs Sri Lanka

2020 vs Australia

1378 vs New Zealand

1287 vs South Africa 

22000 - Virat Kohli when on 78, completed 22000 runs in international cricket - the eighth batsman to achieve this milestone. He has scored 22011 runs in 462 innings in international cricket with 70 hundreds and 105 fifties. 

 
 

By Jasveer Singh Kharra - 30 Nov, 2020

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