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South Africa, which defeated India 2-0 in the Test series at home, gave another blow to Team India. The team chased the target of 359 runs against India in Raipur on Wednesday. This equaled the record of the biggest run chase against India.
Top 9 records of IND vs SA 2nd ODI…
1. Biggest run chase against India
South Africa achieved the target of 359 runs in the 50th over with 4 balls remaining. This equaled the record of the most successful run chase against India in ODIs. Earlier in 2019, Australia had chased only 359 runs on Mohali ground also.
India and South Africa together scored 720 runs in the match. For the first time in an ODI, so many runs were scored between the two teams. Earlier, in the first match of this series, both the teams together had scored 681 runs.
2. India’s second highest total against South Africa
India made its second highest ODI score against South Africa in Raipur. The team scored 358 runs losing 5 wickets, which was India’s second highest score against South Africa. Earlier in 2010, India had also scored 401 runs on the ground of Gwalior.
This match was the 44th time in India’s ODI history, when two batsmen scored centuries in the same innings. This is the highest for any team. The second team in this record is South Africa, which has 30 such occasions in its name.
3. Kohli’s 7th ODI century against South Africa
Kohli scored his 7th century in ODI against South Africa, no other player has scored more centuries against them than Kohli. Sachin Tendulkar is at second place with 5 centuries. This was Kohli’s 10th century against South Africa in all three formats. Sachin is on top in this record with 12 centuries.
Kohli scored a century in the third consecutive ODI against South Africa. He has also scored centuries in the 2023 ODI World Cup and the first ODI of this series. Kohli scored an ODI century for the first time in Raipur, he has scored centuries on 34 different grounds. In this record he equaled Tendulkar.
4. Kohli scored centuries in two consecutive matches for the 11th time.
Kohli has achieved the feat of scoring centuries in two consecutive ODI matches for the 11th time. No batsman could do this more times than him in ODI cricket. At second place is AB de Villiers of South Africa, who did this 6 times. Rohit Sharma has done this 4 times.
Kohli now became the player to score 7 or more ODI centuries against 4 different teams. He has 10 centuries to his name against Sri Lanka, 9 against West Indies, 8 against Australia and 7 against South Africa.
He is the only batsman to achieve this feat. Before this, only Sachin Tendulkar had been able to do this against two teams. He has 9 centuries against Australia and 8 against Sri Lanka.
5. Kohli scored his 40th century at home
Virat Kohli scored his 40th international century in India. Ahead of him is only Sachin Tendulkar, who has 42 centuries to his name. Australia’s Ricky Ponting is at third place with 36 centuries.
6. Rohit completed 9 thousand runs in India
Rohit Sharma completed his 9 thousand international runs in India. With this achievement, he reached third place in the record of highest run scorer in the country. The highest run scorer in India is in the name of Sachin Tendulkar, who scored 14,192 runs. Virat Kohli is at second place with 12,475 runs. Rohit has now gone ahead of Rahul Dravid (9,004) with 9,005 runs.
7. Record partnership of Kohli-Gaikwad
Kohli and Ruturaj Gaikwad made India’s biggest partnership in ODI against South Africa. Together they added 195 runs for the third wicket. Earlier this record was in the names of Sachin Tendulkar and Dinesh Karthik. Both of them had added 194 runs on Gwalior ground in 2010.
8. Gaikwad’s century on 77 balls
Rituraj Gaikwad scored the second fastest ODI century for India against South Africa. He achieved this feat in 77 balls. Ahead of him is only Yusuf Pathan, who scored a century in 68 balls at Centurion ground in 2011.
9. India lost the 20th consecutive toss
India has lost the toss in 20 consecutive ODI matches. This sequence started from the 2023 World Cup Final (Ahmedabad) and is continuing till now. On the other hand, the Netherlands have had the worst losing streak of next toss in ODIs, having lost 11 consecutive toss between March 2011 and August 2013.
India captain KL Rahul and South Africa captain Aiden Markram at the time of toss.
