Stats: India vs South Africa, 4th ODI - Kohli century leads India to 35-run victory
Virat Kohli's 23rd ODI century propelled India to a 35-run victory over South Africa, thus helping to level the five-match series 2-2 at Chennai. In response, AB de Villiers’ 22nd ODI century was not enough to lead the Proteas across the finishing line.
Here are some interesting numbers from the fourth ODI:
2 - Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane were involved in their second century partnership in ODIs. The last century partnership they were involved in was a 213-run one against Bangladesh.
16.50 - Shikhar Dhawan's batting average in the ODI series so far. In the four innings, Dhawan has only scored 66 runs at a strike rate of 62.26.
2010 - The last time two Indian umpires officiated for a home ODI was against South Africa at Jaipur in 2010.
40 - Virat Kohli is fifth in the list of players who have made fifty-plus scores batting at Number 3 in ODIs. He has scored above fifty 40 times in 106 innings whenever he has batted at Number 3 for India. The list is topped by Ricky Ponting who has 103 scored of fifty-plus; he is followed by Kumar Sangakkara, Jacques Kallis and Dean Jones.
5 - Virat Kohli has now become the fifth batsman to score ODI centuries against all Test playing nations. He is in the elite company of Ricky Ponting, Herschelle Gibbs, Sachin Tendulkar and Hashim Amla.
16 - The number of ODI centuries that Virat Kohli has scored while batting at Number 3. Ricky Ponting with 29 and Kumar Sangakkara with 18 are the ones ahead of Kohli.
138 - Virat Kohli's innings of 138 against South Africa was his third highest ODI score. His top three ODI scores have all come in the sub-continent – 183 against Pakistan at Dhaka and 139* against Sri Lanka at Ranchi.
53 - Suresh Raina's fifty against South Africa was his first since he scored he scored a fifty against Bangladesh during the 2015 World Cup. He went seven innings without a fifty.
66 - Number of runs Hashim Amla has scored in the four ODIs against India so far. Incidentally, this is the exact number of runs made by Shikhar Dhawan in the four ODIs.
22 - Number of ODI centuries scored by AB de Villiers. He has now become the South African with the highest number of ODI centuries, going above Hashim Amla with 21 centuries.
8134 - Number of ODI runs scored by AB de Villiers. He is now the second highest run-getter for South Africa in ODIs, behind Jacques Kallis.
1074 - AB de Villiers has scored 1074 runs in 2015. He is the third highest run-getter in ODIs in 2015, behind New Zealanders Kane Williamson and Martin Guptill.
100 - In all of AB de Villiers 22 centuries, he scored at a strike rate of over 100.
2 - South Africa have won only two ODI matches when chasing a total between 280 and 320 since 2006. They have lost the other 12 matches.
6 - Both AB de Villiers and Virat Kohli reached their centuries today with a six.