Stats: Pakistan vs England, 4th ODI - Buttler scores 8th fastest century
46 - Balls Jos Buttler required to score his ODI century in this game, which is the fastest century in UAE going past 67-ball hundred struck by Basit Ali in 1993.
2 - Number of wicket-keepers to have hit a quicker ODI hundred than Jos Buttler’s effort in today’s game. AB de Villiers made a century of 31 balls against West Indies in January this year while Mark Boucher scored a century of just 44 balls against Zimbabwe on 20 Sep 2006.
223.07 - The strike rate of Jos Buttler in this innings - 2nd highest for any batsman playing as wicket-keeper and scoring a century after AB de Villiers 338.63 vs West Indies. If all batsmen are included whether playing as wicket-keeper or not, Buttler’s strike rate places him on the 5th spot among such innings. It is also the highest strike rate for an English batsman in an innings of 50 or more.
0 - Number of English batsmen to have struck an ODI hundred under 50 balls. Jos Buttler became first English player and overall 9th to do so. In fact, Buttler’s 100 off 46 balls is 8th joint fastest ODI century.
3 - Out 3 quickest ODI hundreds for England belong to Jos Buttler. Apart from this innings, Buttler had made centuries off 61 and 66 balls against Sri Lanka and New Zealand respectively, which are next quickest on the list for English players.
1996 - The year in which Sanath Jayasuriya made a century off 48 balls against Pakistan. Jos Buttler thus also holds the record for quickest ODI century against Pakistan now. Next on the list is Mushfiqur Raheem who struck a 69-ball hundred against Pakistan in the famous Mirpur match of Asia Cup.
3 - Number of players now in ODIs to have scored at least two centuries coming into bat after 25th over. Jos Butler and Virat Kohli has 2 such centuries to their names while AB de Villiers leads the list with 5 such scores of 100 plus.
0 - Number of instances when a team has chased 300 plus target in an ODI game in UAE. The highest successful chase in UAE is Pakistan’s 295-6 vs West Indies in 2008.
355 - (England’s score in this match) England’s 5th highest total overall and highest in an ODI game played not at home. Their previous best when playing not at home came against New Zealand at Napier in 2008 when they made 340-6. The game was tied.
1 - Number of instance when a team has scored 350 plus in an ODi match in UAE other than 355-5 made by England in this game. Pakistan scored 364-7 vs New Zealand last year. The highest ODI total in UAE barring these two was 338-4 made by New Zealand vs Bangladesh back in 1990.
19 - Number of innings in 2015 which have resulted in 350 plus runs - conveniently the most for any single year. The previous best is half way down at 9 which came in 2007.
0 - Number of wickets Azhar Ali had taken in 9 ODI innings he bowled. In this innings, he got 2 wickets and both of them were completed with some smart piece of glovework.
1 - Number of ODI innings where Azhar Ali had hit sixes more than one. In this innings, he struck two sixes, which equals his highest ever (2 against Zimbabwe at Lahore). Overall he has now struck 7 sixes in his 31-match ODI career.
1 - Number of times a team has scored 300 plus in an ODI game at Dubai International Stadium before this one. South Africa scored 317-5 in Nov 2010, which was the highest total at this ground. The last 5 first innings scores at this ground are 246-8, 216-9,180, 246-7 and 215.
2-8 the win-loss record for teams batting first in Dubai in last 10 ODI games prior to this match. Pakistan won against South Africa in Nov 2013 while Afghanistan defeated Ireland in January 2015. Also the win-loss record for Pakistan in last 10 ODI series in UAE since 2009. The two series Pakistan won here in UAE were both against Sri Lanka in 2011/12 and 2013/14. Pakistan have now lost 3 ODI series in succession in UAE since 2007.
102 - Runs scored by Jason Roy which is his first century in ODIs. His previous best ODI score was 67 vs Australia in September this year.
0 - Number of times Wahab Riaz or Anwar Ali have gone expensive in their spells in an ODI game while being wicketless. Anwar gave away 75 in 9 overs while Wahab conceded 70 in 9 overs.
1 - Number of time in the entire ODI history of Pakistan when 2 or more bowlers conceded 70 plus runs without getting a wicket. Today Anwar Ali and Wahab gave away 75 and 70 runs respectively. The other such instance also came in 2015 when Anwar Ali, Muhammad Irfan and Yasir Shah conceded 71, 73 and 73 runs respectively. Sri Lanka playing first at Hambantota scored 368-4 and Pakistan lost that match by 165 runs. If the condition of wicketless is taken away, it is only the 7th instance in Pakistan’s bowling in ODIs.
1 - Also the number of time two English batsmen have scored a century in the same ODI out of England prior to Jason Roy’s 102 and Buttler’s 116 in this game. Overall, it was the 3rd such instance for England this year, including the matches played at the home ground. No other year holds it even twice with a total of 11 such instances now in English ODI history.
8 - Number of Sixes hit by Jos Buttler in this innings - most by an Englishmen in an ODI going past Flintoff’s 7 which he struck back in 2004 vs West Indies at Lord’s.