South Africa vs India 2018: Statistical preview of the 1st ODI
Ever since the historic 1991-92 ODI series between the two teams, India and South Africa have been close competitors in the white-ball domain, even the Proteas have a significant upper hand when it comes to overall statistics, winning 45 out of the 77 ODIs between the two sides, as opposed to India's 29.
# In the last eight completed ODIs between the two sides, the winner has kept alternating.
# India claimed victory last time out by a margin of eight wickets at the Oval during the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy.
# South Africa have won three bilateral ODI series consecutively against India (more than two matches). Furthermore, the Proteas have claimed victories in all four of the previous such series.
# India have been involved in six completed ODI encounters with the Proteas at the Kingsmead Durban, the venue of the first ODI. South Africa have won on every occasion, the last three by margins of over 130 runs.
(The last completedencounter was in December 2013, when South Africa won by 134 runs).
# Virat Kohli has posted more runs in ODIs than any other batsman since the start of 2016 (after the end of the previous series between the two teams). He’s recorded a total of 2199 across his 36 innings in that time, at an average of 81.40.
Against South Africa, he has scored 711 runs from 20 games, at an average of 44.43, with a high score of 138 at Chennai in October 2015.
# Shikhar Dhawan has failed to score more than five runs in five of his last seven ODI innings on away from home. He did go on to post 49 and 132* when he did get beyond five on the other occasions, however.
Squads:
South Africa: Faf du Plessis (capt), Hashim Amla, Quinton de Kock (WK), JP Duminy, Imran Tahir, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Morne Morkel, Chris Morris, Lungisani Ngidi, Andile Phehlukwayo, Kagiso Rabada, Tabraiz Shamsi, Khayelihle Zondo.
Injured: AB de Villiers.
India: Virat Kohli (capt), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Dinesh Karthik, Kedar Jadhav, MS Dhoni (WK), Hardik Pandya, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Shardul Thakur.
Statistical inputs from Opta