India vs West Indies statistical highlights: ICC Champions Trophy 2013

India and West Indies met yesterday at The Oval, with both teams coming after winning their first game. West Indies were put in to bat first, scoring 233, with Ravindra Jadeja taking a five-for. In reply, India comfortably won the game by 8 wickets, with Shikhar Dhawan scoring his second century on the trot.

Statistical Highlights of this Match # India and West Indies were meeting for the first time in England after almost 3 decades. The last time they met in England in 1983 World Cup Final.

# This was 107th match between both the teams. Though West Indies had won more matches against India overall, India has been dominating WI for half a decade now.

# India and West Indies were playing their 4th match in ICC Champions Trophy. 2 of the earlier 3 were won by West Indies.

# The Oval has always been lucky for West Indies. Prior to this match, they had won 9 out of the 11 played here.

# At the same time, India had won only 3 of the 11 played here.

# Virat Kohli was playing his 100th ODI and Ravichandran Ashwin his 50th.

West Indies Innings

# Chris Gayle, the overall leading run scorer in the ICC Champions Trophy, hasn’t scored big yet in this season. He could manage only 21(18) in this match.

# Chris Gayle completed 8500 ODI runs. He is the 4th West Indian cricketer after Desmond Haynes, Brian Lara and Shivnarine Chanderpaul to achieve this feat.

# Johnson Charles scored 60(55). This is his 3rd 50+ score in ODIs. On the previous 2 occasions, he converted them into centuries.

# Ramnaresh Sarwan scored 1(2) against Pakistan in the first match and scored 1(6) against India in this match.

# Ravindra Jadeja completed 75 wickets in ODI career. He is only the 3rd Indian left-arm Spinner to achieve this. The other two are Ravi Shastri (129) and Yuvraj Singh (109).

# Ravindra Jadeja took his first 5-wicket haul in his ODI career. He eclipsed his previous best figures of 4/32 against Sri Lanka at Cuttack in 2009.

# Ravindra Jadeja is the first Indian to take a 5-wicket haul in ICC Champions Trophy. The best bowling figures by an Indian were 4/38 by Sachin Tendulkar against Australia at Dhaka in 1998.

# Ravindra Jadeja is the 3rd player to take a 5-wicket haul against West Indies in ICC Champions Trophy. Others are Jacques Kallis (5/30) in 1998 and Farveez Maharoof (6/14) in 2006.

# Ravindra Jadeja’s 5/36 are the joint 3rd best bowing figures by any overseas bowler at The Oval. The best being Umar Gul’s 6/42 against England in 2010.

# Ravindra Jadeja’s 5/36 are the 3rd best bowling figures by an Indian in England.

# Darren Sammy scored his 5th half century in ODIs.

# Darren Sammy added 51* runs with Kemar Roach for the 10th wicket, which is the highest 10th wicket partnership in ICC Champions Trophy.

# This is the first time a player scored all the runs in a 10th wicket partnership of over 50 runs. Sammy scored all the 51 runs in this partnership while Kemar Roach scored 0*(8).

# Darren Sammy’s 4 sixes are the most number of sixes hit in an innings against India in ICC Champions Trophy. Only other batsman to hit 3 sixes against India is Ian Blackwell in 2002 in his 82(68).

# Darren Sammy’s 4 sixes are the second-highest number of sixes by a West Indian in ICC Champions Trophy behind Philo Wallace’s 5 sixes against SA in 1998 final.

# Darren Sammy’s strike rate of 160.00 is the 4th highest S/R in an innings of 50+ in ICC Champions Trophy.

# West Indies’ 233/9 is their lowest first innings total at The Oval.

India Innings

# Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan put up another 100+ opening stand in this match. They had put on 127 runs in the first game against South Africa.

# Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan became the 4th Indian pair to put 100+ opening stand in successive ODI matches. Others are Raman Lamba/Kris Srikkanth, Sachin Tendulkar/Sourav Ganguly (twice) and Sachin Tendulkar/Virender Sehwag (thrice).

# Rohit Sharma scored his 15th Half Century in ODIs and 7th against West Indies. And this is his 10th 50 away from home.

# Virat Kohli needed to score 93 runs to have the record for most Runs after 100 ODI matches. He fell on 22(18).

# Most runs after 100 ODIs: 4177 Gordon Greenidge, 4146 Sir Viv Richards, 4107 Virat Kohli, 3994Brian Lara, 3857 Dean Jones.

# Shikhar Dhawan scored his second ODI hundred and second in consecutive ODIs.

# Shikhar Dhawan is the 9th Indian to score consecutive 100s in ODIs.

# Shikhar Dhawan became the second Indian after Sourav Ganguly to score more than one century in ICC Champions Trophy. Sourav Ganguly has scored 3.

# Most Hundreds in ICC Champions Trophy:3 – Sourav Ganguly, Herschelle Gibbs, Chris Gayle2 – Shikhar Dhawan, Shane Watson, Saeed Anwar, Marcus Trescothick, Upul Tharanga

# Shikhar Dhawan is the 7th batsman to score 100s in successive matches in ICC Champions Trophy. Other 6 are Saeed Anwar, Sourav Ganguly, Herschelle Gibbs, Upul Tharanga, Chris Gayle and Shane Watson.

# Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma are the only 2 Indians to score 50+ scores in first their 2 matches in ICC Champions Trophy.

# Shikhar Dhawan is the 3rd Indian after Sachin Tendulkar (3) and Rahul Dravid (2) to score 2 or more ODI hundreds in England.

# Dinesh Karthik scored his 6th ODI 50.

# Shikhar Dhawan’s consecutive ODI hundreds is the 84th instance in ODIs.

# Virat Kohli is the 30th Indian to play 100 ODI matches.

# India’s victory by 8 wickets is their 3rd victory by 8 wickets in ICC Champions Trophy. They had beaten Kenya in 2000 and England in 2002 by 8 wickets earlier.

# India’s victory by 65 balls to spare is also their 3rd largest victory in ICC Champions Trophy.

# West Indies’ defeat by 8 wickets is their 3rd largest defeat after being defeated by 9 wickets by Sri Lanka in 2006 and by 8 wickets by Australia in 2006.

# This was West Indies’ 10th loss in ICC Champions Trophy. Along with Pakistan, they are the only team to lose 10 matches in the tournament.

# This was India’s 12th victory in ICC Champions Trophy.

# With this win, India are the first team to enter the semi-finals of the tournament. They haven’t cleared the first round since 2002 edition.

# Pakistan are out of the tournament after India’s victory. India play their next game against Pakistan on June 15th at EdgbastonWest Indies play their next game against South Africa on June 14th at Cardiff. This match’s winner will be the second semi finalist from Group B.