India beat Australia by 36 runs in the second ODI match at Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot yesterday and levelled the series 1-1 with one match to go.
Earlier, Australia won the toss and opted to bowl first. Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan gave a good start of 81 runs, before Rohit got dismissed by Adam Zampa for 42 runs. Dhawan and Virat Kohli continued to score runs and their 101 runs stand set the platform for a big score. Dhawan missed his hundred by 4 runs and got out for 96. Shreyas Iyer also failed and got out for just 7 runs.
Virat Kohli and KL Rahul took the charge in their hands and kept India in a good position. KL Rahul's quick-fire 80 runs off 52 balls and Kohli's 78 runs helped India to post 340/6 on the board. In the reply, Australia had a poor start and last match's centurion David Warner got out cheaply.
Aaron Finch too couldn't convert his start but Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne kept Australia alive in the match before Kuldeep Yadav's double-wicket over broke Australia's backbone and sealed the match for India. Eventually Australia were bowled out for 304 runs and lost the match by 36 runs. For Australia, Smith played 98 runs knock while for India, Mohammad Shami took 3 wickets.
All the major stats and facts from the second ODI between India and Australia in Rajkot
3 - All the three ODI matches at Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot have been won by team batting first.
ODI results at Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot -
9 runs win by ENG vs IND, 2013
18 runs win by SA vs IND, 2015
36 runs win by IND vs AUS, 2020
5 - Number of times Adam Zampa has dismissed Virat Kohli in ODIs - the joint second most by a bowler.
Bowlers to dismiss Virat Kohli in ODIs most times -
6 - Ravi Rampaul
5 - Adam Zampa
5 - Tim Southee
5 - Thisara Perera
644 - Runs aggregates in this match is the highest-ever match aggregate on Indian soil without an individual hundred in ODI cricket.
Most runs in an ODI on Indian soil without an individual hundred -
644 - India (340) vs Australia (304) at Rajkot, 2020
643 - Asia XI (337) vs Africa XI (306) at Chennai, 2007
641 - England (325) vs India (316) at Rajkot, 2013
58 - Number of ODIs taken by Kuldeep Yadav to reach 100 ODI wickets - the joint third-fastest spinner in the world to reach this milestone in terms of ODI matches.
Fastest to reach 100 ODI wickets (Spinners & by Matches) -
44 - Rashid Khan
53 - Saqlain Mushtaq
58 - Imran Tahir
58 - Kuldeep Yadav
60 - Shane Warne
Fastest to 100 ODI wickets for India (By matches) -
56 - Mohammed Shami
57 - Jasprit Bumrah
58 - Kuldeep Yadav
59 - Irfan Pathan
65 - Zaheer Khan
1016 - KL Rahul when on 64, completed 1000 ODI runs. He has scored total of 1016 runs at an average of 44.17 in 28 ODIs with 3 hundreds and 6 fifties.
