India vs Australia 2019, 2nd T20I – Statistical Highlights

Glenn Maxwell scored a breathtaking ton as Australia beat India by seven wickets in the second T20I to clean sweep the two-match series. Asked to bat first, India rode on their skipper Virat Kohli’s whirlwind 72 to post 190 for 4 in the allotted 20 overs. However, the score was enough as Maxwell looked in his elements and took Australia over the line with two balls remaining.

Brief Score: India – 190/4 in 20 overs (Virat Kohli 72*, KL Rahul 47; Jason Behrendorff 1/17)

Australia – 194/3 in 19.4 overs (Glenn Maxwell 113*, D’Arcy Short 40; Vijay Shankar 2/38)

Result – Australia won by seven wickets

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

1. The century was Maxwell’s second while chasing in T20I cricket after his unbeaten hundred in Hobart during the last year’s tri-series encounter against England. He is only the 2nd player after KL Rahul to score more than one T20I century while chasing.

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2.  Maxwell became just the third cricketer after Rohit Sharma (4) and Colin Munro (3) to score three tons in T20I cricket.

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3. 113* scored by Maxwell is the highest individual score against India in India in T20 Internationals. He became only the second player to hit a hundred in India against the home team after Colin Munro who scored an unbeaten 109 in Rajkot in 2017.

Highest individual scores against India in India:

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4. Maxwell’s 169 runs in this series are the 2nd most by any player in a 2-match T20I series.  He himself holds the record for scoring the most runs in a 2-match T20I series with 211 runs against Sri Lanka in 2016.

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5. India lost a series at home under Virat Kohli’s captaincy for the very first time.  They won 14 of their previous 15 home series under Kohli’s captaincy while the 2017 T20I series against Australia ended in a draw.

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6. Virat Kohli (54) and MS Dhoni (52) completed 50 sixes in T20I cricket. They joined Rohit Sharma (102), Yuvraj Singh (74) and Suresh Raina (58) as the players with 50 or more T20I sixes for India.

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7. MS Dhoni (352) became the first Indian to hit 350 sixes across three formats in Internationals.

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8. Kohli’s innings was studded with 6 sixes which is the most by him in a T20I. He hit four sixes in the 2014 WT20 final against Sri Lanka which the only other instance of him hitting more than three sixes in a T20I.

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9.  Kohli’s unbeaten 72-run knock is the highest score by an Indian captain in a T20I defeat. His 65-run knock during the 2017 Rajkot T20I against New Zealand is the only other fifty in a T20I defeat for an Indian captain.

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10. Kohli has now scored 2,519 runs at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium and became the first player to aggregate 2500 runs in Twenty20 format at any venue.

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11. This was only the third instance of India losing every match in a bilateral T20I series of two or more matches. The other two defeats were: against New Zealand in 2008-09 and South Africa in 2015-16.