India vs Sri Lanka, Asia Cup, Stats: MS Dhoni reaches new heights as captain; Virat Kohli’s unparalleled average in 2016
India captain MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli, who scored a fifty, celebrate after beating Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup on Tuesday. (Source: AP)
Statistical highlights of the T20 match between India and Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup cricket tournament in Mirpur.
# Mahendra Singh Dhoni (35 catches + 17 stumpings in 61 matches) became the second wicket-keeper after Pakistan’s Kamran Akmal to effect 50 dismissals or more in all three formats of International cricket – Tests, ODIs and T20Is
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# Dhoni became the first player to complete 200 sixes as captain in 315 innings in International cricket – the next best being 171 in 376 innings by Ricky Ponting.
# Dhoni’s winning per cent of 58.47 as captain is quite impressive – 34 victories, 24 losses, one tied and one no-result match out of 60 matches in T20Is.
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# Dhoni’s strike rate of 244.44 in the tournament is superb – 22 runs off nine balls without being dismissed in three matches.
# India enjoys an excellent record vs Sri Lanka, winning six and losing four out of ten matches contested in T20Is – success per cent 60.00.
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# India became the first side to register victories in all three matches in the present tournament – by 45 runs vs Bangladesh on February 24, by 5 wickets vs Pakistan on February 27 and by 5 wickets vs Sri Lanka on March 1.
# UAE, had won all three matches in the qualifying group.
# For the first time vs Sri Lanka, India have won three matches in a row in T20Is – by 69 runs at Ranchi on Feb.12, 2016, by 9 wickets at Visakhapatam on Feb.14 and by 5 wickets at Dhaka on March 1.
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# Tillakaratne Dilshan’s performance this year is mediocre in T20Is, averaging 12.28 – his worst in a calendar year (minimum three matches). Since recording 52 vs West Indies at Colombo (RPS) on November 11, 2015, he has totalled just 86 runs in seven innings – the scores being 0, 28, 0, 1, 27, 12 & 18.
# Sri Lanka have managed 47 for the loss of three wickets in the first ten overs – their second lowest when batting first after ten overs. They had scored 43 for seven vs Australia in the ICC World Twenty20 at Cape Town on September 20, 2007.
# Kohli’s superb unbeaten 56 off 47 balls is his third fifty in as many innings vs Sri Lanka.
# Kohli’s aforesaid innings is his 13th fifty in T20Is. Just two players have recorded more fifty-plus innings than Kohli – Brendon McCullum (15) and Chris Gayle (14).
# Against Sri Lanka, Kohli enjoys brilliant record, averaging 100.50 in T20Is – the third highest by a batsman against a side next only to the 130.50 by New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum vs India and Martin Guptill’s 118.50 vs Zimbabwe (minimum 200 runs against a team).
# Virat Kohli’s superb batting average of 93.16 in successful chases in T20Is is without parallel – his aggregate being 559 in twelve innings, including six fifties. (minimum 400 runs).
# In T20Is this year, Kohli is averaging 103.66 – his aggregate being 311 in six innings, including four fifties – the scores being 90 not out followed by 59 not out & 50 vs Australia, 7 vs Bangladesh, 49 vs Pakistan and 56 not out vs Sri Lanka.
# Kohli has received his seventh Man of the Match award in T20Is – his first vs Sri Lanka. Yuvraj Singh and Kohli share an Indian record for most MOM awards (seven) in T20Is.
# The average opening stand in the present Asia Cup since Feb 24 has been 13.28 – the aggregate being 186 in fourteen innings, with just one partnership of 50 – 68 between Dinesh Chandimal and Tillakaratne Dilshan for SL vs UAE at Dhaka on Feb.25.
