ICC Champions Trophy: Match 1, Group B, Ind vs SA - Statistical Highlights

India and South Africa played the first match of the final edition of ICC Champions Trophy at Cardiff on 6th June 2013. The two favourites of the tournament played to the best of their ability and finally it was India who registered a win. South Africa won the toss and put India to bat. India managed to score 331/7 in their 50 overs with a century from Shikhar Dhawan. South Africa could score only 305 runs in reply. India won the match by 26 runs and earned two points in the first match of the tournament.

India has never lost to South Africa in ICC Champions Trophy

Let’s have a look at the statistical highlights of this match

Indian innings’ highlights

# In this match both captains were also the wicketkeepers, AB de Villiers and MS Dhoni. This is only the 39th ODI in cricket history where 2 keeper-captains played.

# The opening pair of Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma is the 127th opening pair for India in ODIs. Interestingly, they added 127 runs for the first wicket.

# Rohit Sharma scored his 14th half century in his ODI career. He scored 65 runs off 81 balls with 8 fours and 1 six.

# Today’s half century was Rohit Sharma’s maiden fifty against South Africa.

# Rohit Sharma scored his 11th fifty outside India. He has scored only 3 50s in India. Also, his 2 ODI hundreds have been in away venues (at Bulawayo).

# Rohit Sharma was opening 6th time in his ODI career. He has scored 2 half-centuries while opening. The other half-century was against England when he scored 83 at Mohali in 2013.

# Shikhar, playing his 6th ODI match, scored his maiden ODI hundred. He completed his century off just 80 balls.

Shikhar Dhawan after completing his maiden ODI hundred in 80 balls

# Shikhar Dhawan also scored his maiden Test century in 85 balls, thus becoming only the 3rd Indian to score their maiden ODI and Test hundreds within 100 balls. The other 2 are Kris Srikkanth and MS Dhoni.

# Shikhar Dhawan’s century in 80 balls is the joint second fastest hundred by an Indian against South Africa. The fastest hundred for Ind vs SA is in 68 balls by Yusuf Pathan and 80 balls by Sanjay Manjrekar.

# Rohit Sharma, during his innings of 65 runs, hit his 25th six in ODI career. And became only the 18th Indian to his 25 or more sixes in ODIs.

# Shikhar Dhawan became the 5th Indian to score a hundred in Champions Trophy. Others are Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Mohammad Kaif. Ganguly is the only Indian to score more than one century in Champions Trophy.

# Shikhar Dhawan became the 33rd Indian to score an ODI ton. Only Australia have more century scorers (37).

# Among the other 32 Indians who have scored a century, 11 did not score any further centuries in their career.

# The last Indian opening pair to put on 100+ runs for the first wicket were Sehwag/Gambhir. They added 176 runs for the first wicket against West Indies at Indore in 2011.

Ravindra Jadeja scored 47* (29) which helped India score the highest total at Cardiff

# Ravindra Jadeja scored 47*(29) which is his first score in 40s in ODI career. He has 6 fifties and 2 scores of 39 and 38 each.

# 2 South African bowlers Lonwabo Tsotsobe (2/83) and Rory Kleinveldt (0/81) conceded more than 80 runs. This is 4th such occasion for SA in ODIs and second against India.

# Tsotsobe’s 83 runs are the third most runs conceded by a bowler in Champions Trophy match.

# India’s total of 331/7 is the highest total at this venue. They overcame their 304/6 vs Eng in 2011.

# This is the 72nd time India has scored 300+ in an ODI, a record by any team. Next are Australia with 67 300+ totals.