Ind v SL Number Cruncher: Rohit's blitz, Kohli's chases, India's ruthlessness

India handed a royal thrashing to Sri Lanka by winning the five-match series 5-0. It was first time Sri Lanka suffered this humiliation in their entire ODI history. India, on the other hand, won a five-match series 5-0 for the fifth time.

Virat Kohli impressed all and sundry with his captaincy skills. He was scheduled to lead in only first three matches, but an injury to MS Dhoni allowed Kohli to continue. Kohli thus achieved the distinction of becoming the first Indian skipper to win a bilateral series 5-0 both at home and abroad. Under him India had beaten Zimbabwe 5-0 in Zimbabwe last year.

Kohli now has a great record as captain- winning 14 and losing only three of 17 matches in which he has captained India. His win-percentage is the second highest for a player captaining his side in 10 or more matches.

In his ODI career of six years and after playing 138 matches and 116 innings Angelo Mathews finally scored his maiden ODI hundred. Before this, Mathews had scored 24 fifties with a highest of 93. Mathews’ 139* is the second highest score by a Sri Lankan captain after Sanath Jayasuriya’s 189 also against India at Sharjah in 2010.

Matthews hit 10 sixes during his innings, which are the most by a captain in an ODI. Australia’s Ricky Ponting hit 9 sixes against South Africa at Johannesburg in 2006.

Mathews completed his 1,000 runs in ODIs in the year 2014 when his score reached 77. He became first player to reach this landmark this year.

Having already scored 1,044 runs in Test cricket this year, Mathews became only the third captain to aggregate 1,000 runs in a calendar year both in Tests and ODIs. Sachin Tendulkar (in 1997) and Ricky Ponting (in 2005) are the two other captain to do so.

Virat Kohli aggregated 1,000 runs in ODIs when his score reached 85 becoming second batsman after Angelo Mathews to do so. Kohli has now aggregated 1,000 runs in four consecutive years since 2011 (he missed the mark in 2010 by just 5 runs). Kohli now joins fellow Indian Sourav Ganguly in scoring 1,000 runs for four consecutive years. Ganguly had done so between 1997 and 2000.

The 139 by Angelo Mathews and Virat Kohli is the highest identical score by two batsmen in a ODI. The previous highest was 125 by Graeme Smith and AB de Villiers in South Africa - Sri Lanka match at Johannesburg in 2012. The previous highest identical score by two captains in a ODI was 50 by MS Dhoni and Alastair Cook in England- India match at Cardiff in 2011.

The Ranchi match provided only the third instance in ODI history of both captains scoring hundreds in the same match. Kohli has been involved in two of them.

Virat Kohli has now made 14 hundreds while batting second. Only Sachin Tendulkar (17) has scored more hundreds in a chase.

13 of Kohli’s hundreds have come in successful chases.He is now just one short of Sachin Tendulkar’s record of most hundreds (14) in successful chases.

In the fourth ODI at Kolkata Rohit Sharma rewrote the ODI history by scoring 264 off 173 balls. In the course he broke Virender Sehwag’s record of highest individual score in ODIs. Rohit established many other records during his innings of 264. Here are some of them:

- On 102 he made his highest score against Sri Lanka, expunging unbeaten 101 at Bulawayo in 2010.

- On 151 he made the highest individual score at Eden Gardens, bettering Gautam Gambhir’s unbeaten 150 in 2009 also against Sri Lanka.

- On 184 he surpassed the highest score by an Indian batsman against Sri Lanka. Sourav Ganguly at Taunton in 1999 and MS Dhoni at Jaipur in 2005-06 had made 183.

- On 190 he established the highest individual score in India-Sri Lanka ODIs, beating Sanath Jayasuriya’s 189 at Sharjah in 2000.

- On 200 he became the first player to score two double centuries in ODIs.

- On 210 he surpassed his personal best score in ODIs, beating 209 he made against Australia at Bengaluru in 2013.

- On 220, he established the highest individual score in ODIs, obliterating Virender Sehwag’s 219 against West Indies at Indore in 2011.

- On 249, he made the highest score by an Indian batsman in List A matches, beating Shikhar Dhawan’s 248 for India A against South Africa at Centurion in 2013.

- On 264, he ended with the second highest score by any batsman in List A matches after Ally Brown’s 268 for Surrey against Glamorgan at The Oval in 2002.

Apart from the above mentioned records, Rohit now also has the following records on his name:

- Most boundary fours (33) in a ODI (Sehwag and Tendulkar had hit 25 fours each during their double centuries).

- Most boundaries (fours & sixes) (42) in a ODI. Sehwag had hit 32 boundaries (25 fours and 7 sixes) during his 219.

- Most runs in boundaries in a ODI (186). Shane Watson had scored 150 runs in boundaries during his 185* vs Bangladesh at Mirpur in 2011.

- Most balls (173) faced by a batsman in a 50-over ODI. Canada’s Ashish Bagai had played 172 balls (while scoring 137*) against Scotland in 2007.

Riding on Rohit’s brilliant innings India ended with a total of 404 for five at Kolkata. This was fifth time India crossed 400 in a ODI. No other side has done so more than twice.

Rohit Sharma provided the third instance of an Indian batsman outscoring the entire opposition (in an all-out innings). Sachin Tendulkar vs Namibia at Pietermaritzburg in 2003 and Yuvraj Singh vs Bangladesh at Dhaka also in 2003 are the other Indians to do so.

In the third match at Hyderabad, Virat Kohli (53), on 50, completed his 6,000 runs in ODIs. By taking only 136 innings Kohli became the quickest to reach this mark, wresting the record from Viv Richards, who took 141 innings to do so.

Shikhar Dhawan- during his 91 at Hyderabad - completed his 2,000 ODI runs. He became 23rd Indian to achieve this milestone. By taking 48 innings, Dhawan is now the quickest among Indians to accomplish this feat. Navjot Sidhu had done so in 52 innings.

Mahela Jayawardene (118) completed his 12,000 ODI runs when his score reached 116 at Hyderabad. He became third Sri Lankan and fifth batsman to reach this mark after Sachin Tendulkar (18426), Ricky Ponting (13704), Sanath Jayasuriya (13430) and Kumar Sangakkara (12918). Incidentally Jayawardene is the slowest to do so, taking 399 innings. Jayasuriya (379) held the previous record.

The Hyderabad match was India’s 300th ODI in India. India became second country after Australia to play 300 ODIs at home soil.

Kumar Sangakkara’s 61 in the second ODI at Ahmedabad was his 87th score of 50 or more. He now has moved to the second place among the batsmen with most 50-plus scores, ahead of Jacques Kallis (86). Now only Sachin Tendulkar –with 96 such scores – is ahead of Sangakkara.

Ambati Rayudu (121*) made his maiden ODI hundred in his 21st ODI at Ahmedabad. He became 35th Indian to score an ODI hundred. Only three Indians have scored a maiden ODI hundred at an older age than Ambati Rayudu. The details:

The first match at Cuttack was the 400th ODI on Indian soil. India became only the second country to host 400 ODIs after Australia.

Indian opening pair scored 37 runs more than what whole Sri Lanka team managed in the first ODI at Cuttack. This is only the sixth time opening partnership for India scored more than opponents’ total (where the opponents were all-out). The difference of 37 runs is the second most. Take a look:

Suresh Raina completed his 5000 ODI runs when he scored his 44th run at Cuttack. He became 11th Indian to accomplish this feat. Incidentally Raina is the slowest among Indians to reach this mark, taking 172 innings. Mohammad Azharuddin held the previous record with 170 innings.

The following matches made their ODI debut during the series: India: Karn Sharma (at Kolkata) and Kedar Jadhav (at Ranchi) Sri Lanka: Lahiru Gamage (at Cuttack) and Niroshan Dickwella (at Ranchi)

A total of 205 players have now represented India in ODIs. The corresponding figure for Sri Lanka is 161.