India, Australia. India vs Australia 2019
India have played a terrific brand of cricket in the limited overs format. (Credits: Getty)

India beat Australia by eight runs in the thrilling second ODI in Nagpur to take a two nil lead in the five-match series. Asked to bat first, India scored 250 with Virat Kohli’ century leading the way. Vijay Shankar also played a handy knock of 46. In reply, Australia were all out for 242 despite a fighting effort from Marcus Stoinis.

Brief Scores: India – 250 in 48.2 overs (Virat Kohli 116, Vijay Shankar 46; Pat Cummins 4/29)

Australia – 242 in 49.3 overs (Marcus Stoinis 52, Peter Handscomb 48; Kuldeep Yadav 3/54)

Result – India won by eight runs

With the game now done and dusted, we take a look at the statistical highlights of the game:

1. This was India’s second-lowest successfully defended ODI total at home against Australia. The lowest score that India defended at home against the Aussies is 193 runs in Ahmedabad on 5 October 1986.

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2.  India continued their winning run over Australia in ODIs in Nagpur. This was the fourth time the teams played against each other in Nagpur and India have won all the games thus far.

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3. Rohit Sharma failed to open his account, falling for a six-ball duck in the very first over of the game. It was his first ODI duck at home.

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India vs Australia 2019, 2nd ODI – Statistical Highlights
Rohit Sharma (Credits: Getty)

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4.  Playing his 159th international innings as captain, Virat Kohli (9,094 runs) completed his 9,000 runs. He thus became the fastest captain to score 9,000 international runs. The previous record holder was Ricky Ponting who had achieved this feat in 203 international innings.

Here is a list showing captains who have scored 9,000 international runs:

Player (Team) Matches Innings Runs scored Average
 Ricky Ponting (Australia/ICC World XI) 324 376 15,440 45.54
Graeme Smith (South Africa/Africa XI/ICC World XI) 286 368 14,878 43.12
Stephen Fleming (New Zealand) 303 348 11,561 35.68
MS Dhoni (India) 332 330 11,207 46.89
Allan Border (Australia) 271 319 11,062 41.27
Virat Kohli (India) 133 159 9,094 66.86

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5. Virat Kohli achieved the record of most century as captain against Australia after reaching the three-digit mark for the sixth time against the Aussies. Clive Lloyd (West Indies), David Gower (England), Brian Lara (West Indies) are in the next position with five international centuries each as captain.

India vs Australia 2019, 2nd ODI – Statistical Highlights
Virat Kohli (Credits: BCCI)

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6. Overall, it was Kohli’s 14th international century against Australia. It is the third most number of international centuries by an Indian cricketer against any particular team. Sachin Tendulkar is the top two record holders with 20 and 17 tons against Australia and Sri Lanka respectively.

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7. Allrounder Ravindra Jadeja (2,011 runs) completed his 2,000 ODI runs during this match. He became the third Indian cricketer to score 2,000+ runs and take 150+ wickets in ODI career. Kapil Dev (3,783 runs & 253 wickets) and Sachin Tendulkar (18,426 runs & 154 wickets) are the other two Indians to achieve this feat.

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8. Pat Cummins finished the game with impressive figures of 9-2-29-4. It was the third-best ODI bowling figures by an Australian right-arm bowler against India in India.

Top three ODI bowling figures by the Australian right-arm bowlers against India in India

Player Bowling figures Venue Date
Damien Fleming 9-0-36-5 Mumbai 27 February 1996
Ian Hervey 4.5-0-21-4 Kolkata 18 November 2003
Pat Cummins 9-2-29-4 Nagpur 5 March 2019

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