Stats: India vs South Africa 3rd ODI - De Kock, Morkel lead the Proteas to victory

De Kock and Morkel led the Proteas to an 18-run win in the third ODI

Quinton de Kock's fourth ODI century and Morne Morkel's four-wicket haul helped South Africa to take a 2-1 lead in the India-South Africa ODI series in Rajkot. In response, India fell short of the target by 18 runs despite scores of 77 by Virat Kohli, 64 by Rohit Sharma and 47 by MS Dhoni.

Here are the interesting stats from the third ODI:

84.33 - Quinton de Kock's batting average against India. De Kock has the highest batting average for any batsman against India in ODIs who have scored a minimum of 500 runs. The batsmen with the second best and third best batting averages against India are also South Africans – Gary Kirsten (62.59) and Jacques Kallis (61.40).

3 - Quinton de Kock becomes the third South African to score a century in his 50^th ODI after he scored 103 at Rajkot today. The other two batsmen who achieved the same feat – Gary Kirsten (118) against Pakistan in 1996 and Jacques Kallis (113*) against Sri Lanka in 1998.

4 - Faf du Plessis scored his fourth consecutive ODI half-century against India. His last four fifty-plus scores are 55, 62, 51 and 60. The last three came in the ongoing India-South Africa ODI series.

1 - This was the first time Quinton de Kock was dismissed by a run-out in his ODI career.

7 - This is the least number of innings that a batsman has taken to score four ODI centuries against a particular opponent. Two batsmen share this record – Quinton de Kock against India, and Sachin Tendulkar against Kenya.

50 - The number of innings that Quinton de Kock took to reach seven ODI hundreds. De Kock has the third fewest number of innings to reach his seventh ton. Hashim Amla scored his first seven centuries in 41 innings and Zaheer Abbas did it in 42 innings.

4 - Morne Morkel has dismissed Shikhar Dhawan for the fourth time in ODIs. This is the most Dhawan has been dismissed by any bowler. Three of the four dismissals happened in the ongoing series.

7 - Rohit Sharma scored his seventh fifty-plus score of 2015 when he scored 64 in the third ODI. Hashim Amla (7), Tillakaratne Dilshan (8) and Martin Guptill (10) are the other batsmen who have same or more fifty-plus scores this year.

2 - MS Dhoni has become the second highest ODI run-getter as a captain. His score of 47 took him past Stephen Fleming of New Zealand, and over 2000 runs behind Ricky Ponting.

77 - South Africa is the only opposition (Test playing nations) that Virat Kohli has failed to score a hundred against.

6 - At the end of both the innings in the match today, the last balls were hit for a six – Farhaan Behardien for South Africa and Axar Patel for India.

67.06 - MS Dhoni's ODI batting average when batting at Number 4 from 21 innings. His overall average is 52.63.

4-39 - Morne Morkel's bowling figures in the match were his best against India in ODIs.

7.80 - Suresh Raina's average in the five innings (two T20Is and three ODIs) against South Africa in this series.

4.10 - Harbhajan Singh's economy rate this match. His economy rate in ODIs in 2015 is 4.04, which is third best for bowlers who bowled a minimum of 50 overs, only behind Mirwais Ashraf (3.83) of Afghanistan and Josh Hazlewood (3.96) of Australia.