India beat Australia by 7 wickets in the third and final ODI at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore yesterday night and clinched three-match ODI series by 2-1.
Earlier Australia won the toss and opted to bat first but they had a poor start and lost both openers, Warner and Finch, inside the first powerplay. Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschange rebuilt the innings and their 127 runs partnership for the third wicket set the platform for a good score but Aussies lower order couldn't do well and Smith alone had to do all the work. Smith played a brilliant knock of 131 runs and his innings helped Australia to post 286/9 on the board.
In reply, India started off well and opener Rohit Sharma smashed Cummins and Starc in the starting overs and put Australia on the back foot. KL Rahul got out cheaply but Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli took the charge and kept scoring runs with ease. Rohit Sharma brought up his 29th ODI hundred and his 119 runs knock set the match for India. In the end, Virat Kohli's 89 and Shreyas Iyer's 44* took India home comfortably.
All the major stats and facts from third and final ODI between India and Australia in Bangalore
7 - Rohit Sharma when on 4, became the seventh Indian batsman to score 9000 runs in ODI cricket. He has scored 9115 runs in 224 ODIs so far.
Most ODI runs for India -
18426 - Sachin Tendulkar
11792 - Virat Kohli
11221 - Sourav Ganguly
10768 - Rahul Dravid
10599 - MS Dhoni
9378 - Mohammed Azharuddin
9115 - Rohit Sharma
8 - Rohit Sharma scored his 8th ODI hundred against Australia - only the third Indian player to do so after Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli.
Most ODI hundreds against AUS for IND -
9 - Sachin Tendulkar
8 - Rohit Sharma
8 - Virat Kohli
Most ODI hundreds against a team -
9 - Sachin Tendulkar vs AUS
9 - Virat Kohli vs WI
8 - Virat Kohli vs AUS
8 - Virat Kohli vs SL
8 - Rohit Sharma vs AUS
8 - Sachin Tendulkar vs SL
29 - Number of ODI hundreds Rohit Sharma has scored till now - the fourth most in the world.
Most ODI hundreds -
49 - Sachin Tendulkar
43 - Virat Kohli
30 - Ricky Ponting
29 - Rohit Sharma
28 - Sanath Jayasuriya
49 - Mohammad Shami has taken 49 wickets at an average of 23.44 in 24 ODIs since January 2019 with four four wickets haul - the most ODI wickets by any bowler since January 2019.
82 - Number of innings taken by Virat Kohli to complete 5000 ODI runs as captain - the fastest to reach this milestone in terms of innings.
Fastest to reach 5000 ODI runs as captain (By innings) -
82 - Virat Kohli
127 - MS Dhoni
131 - Ricky Ponting
135 - Graeme Smith
136 - Sourav Ganguly
217 - Number of innings Rohit Sharma took to reach 9000 ODI runs - the third fastest to reach this milestone in terms of innings.
Fastest to reach 9000 ODI runs (By innings) -
194 - Virat Kohli
208 - AB de Villiers
217 - Rohit Sharma
228 - Sourav Ganguly
235 - Sachin Tendulkar
4039 - Steve Smith when on 92, completed 4000 runs in ODIs. He has scored 4039 runs in 121 ODIs with 9 hundreds and 24 fifties.
11208 - Runs Virat Kohli has scored in international cricket as captain - the most by an Indian captain.
Most international runs by Indian captains -
11208 - Virat Kohli
11207 - MS Dhoni
8095 - Mohammed Azharuddin
7643 - Sourav Ganguly
4508 - Sachin Tendulkar