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Ind vs WI (Fourth ODI): Twin centuries from Rohit Sharma and Ambati Rayudu help India to score a massive total
By Sandy - Oct 29, 2018 6:23 pm
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Rohit Sharma’s 162 and Ambati Rayudu’s 100 helped the Indian cricket team to set a massive 378 runs target for the visitors’ Windies in the fourth ODI at Brabourne Stadium (Mumbai) on Monday.

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Rohit Sharma and Ambati Rayudu

Starting the game with the 1-1 margin of the five-match home ODI series, Indian skipper Virat Kohli decided to bat first after winning the toss. India had a good start as their openers Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan had a 71-run partnership.

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After Dhawan was dismissed on 38 runs, the in-form Indian skipper Virat Kohli joined Rohit Sharma on the pitch. However, this time Kohli fell on a very cheap score as the Windies pacer Kemar Roach dismissed him on 16 runs.

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It didn’t scratch on Rohit’s confidence as he carried the innings through a giant partnership with Ambati Rayudu. They had a massive 211-run partnership for the fourth wicket that set a massive first batting total for India.

Rohit again hit a century as well as another 150+ ODI knock. After completing his century in 98 balls, Rohit stretched his innings and completed 150 off 131 balls. Finally, the right-handed opening batsman was caught out on 162 off 137 balls (20 fours and 4 sixes).

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Rohit Sharma

Meanwhile, Rayudu also carried his innings to a brilliant century knock as he completed his third ODI century in 80 balls. However, in the very next ball, Rayudu lost his wicket through a run-out.

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Ambati Rayudu

Wicketkeeper-batsman MS Dhoni scored 23 off 15 balls while the comeback man Kedar Jadhav was not out on 16 off 7 balls and Ravindra Jadeja remained unbeaten on 7 off 4 balls. In a result of these knocks, India managed to score 377/5 at the end of 50 overs.

Among the Windies bowlers, Kemar Roach got two wickets, while Ashley Nurse and Keemo Paul picked up one wicket each. All the Windies bowlers were expensive in this innings.

Some key stats of the innings:

  • At the end of this innings, the Indian opening batsmen Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan have put 4,031 runs ODI partnership. Fifth Indian partners to put 4,000+ ODI partnership runs.
  • Indian skipper Virat Kohli scored 16 runs in this game. It is his lowest ODI knock in 2018. Kohli’s previous lowest ODI knock in this calendar year was 36 against South Africa at Port Elizabeth on February 13, 2018.
  • At the end of this innings, Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma hit 198 ODI sixes and becomes the second most ODI six hitters as an Indian batsman after surpassing Sachin Tendulkar’s 195 ODI six records. MS Dhoni is on the top of this list with 211 ODI sixes.
  • Indian opening batsman Rohit Sharma scored 162 runs. It was his seventh 150+ ODI knocks which is the most number of 150+ ODI knocks for a batsman. Sachin Tendulkar and David Warner are in the second position in this list with five 150+ ODI knocks each.
  • Also, Rohit Sharma’s 162 runs knock was the second highest ODI knock by any Indian batsman against Windies. The record is 219 by Virender Sehwag at Indore on December 8, 2011.
  • Indian batsmen Rohit Sharma and Ambati Rayudu had a 211-run partnership for the third wicket. It was India’s highest third-wicket ODI partnership against Windies. Their previous record was 139 runs partnership between Virat Kohli and Ambati Rayudu at Visakhapatnam on October 24, 2018.
  • India scored 377/5 (50 overs) against Windies. It was India’s second highest ODI total against Windies as their record is 418/5 (50 overs) at Indore on December 8, 2011. Also, it is the highest ODI total at Brabourne Stadium (Mumbai) as the previous record was 234/6 by Australia against West Indies on October 18, 2006.
  • Windies pacer Keemo Paul had an expensive bowling figure of 10-0-88-1. It was the joint most runs conceding in an ODI match by a Windies bowler against India. Earlier, Kemar Roach had the same bowling record (10-0-88-1) against India at Indore on December 8, 2011.

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