Indians completed a dominant win over Sri Lanka during 5-match ODI series at the island country. The Indian performance was so clinical that except 6-wicket haul of Dananjaya there was not even a single hour where Indians were on backfoot. Check the statistics from complete series and also the world records and other records created during the ODI series.
India in Sri Lanka 2017 Bilateral series: Schedule and Results, Statistical Highlights of Test Series
Stats of ODI Series
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Highest Team Scores: 375/5 India, SL 238
Lowest Team Scores: SL 207
Wickets Fallen: SL 47 (out of 50), Ind 21 (out of 50)
Highest Runs in Series: 330 Kohli, 302 Rohit Sharma, 192 Mathews, 190 Dhawan, 162 Dhoni
100s: 5 India (2 each Kohli, Rohit Sharma, 1 Dhawan)
50s: 6 Ind, 6 SL
Highest Wickets in Series: 15 Bumrah, 9 Dananjaya, 6 Axar Patel, 5 Chahal & Bhuvneswar Kumar, 4 Hardik Pandya, 3 Malinga & Kuldeep Yadav
5+ wickets: 6/54 Dananjaya, 5/27 Bumrah, 5/42 B Kumar
Maidens: 9 India (4 by Bumrah), 7 SL (3 by Vishwa Fernando),
100+ Partnerships: 7 (Ind 6, SL 1)
197* 2nd Dhawan, Kohli
100* 8th Dhoni, Bhuvneswar Kumar
157* 5th Rohit Sharma, Dhoni
219 2nd Rohit Sharma, Kohli
101* 6th Manish Pandey, Dhoni
122 4th Thirimanne, Mathews
109 4th Kohli, Kedar Jadhav
Bilateral Series Record
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2nd 5-0 whitewash in the series, both by India. Once at home and now at Sri Lanka.
Kohli is the only captain with 3 ODI series wins over Sri Lanka.
Indian Record
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127 balls remaining is India’s best win in chase of 200+ score.
71-ball century by Dhawan is 2nd fastest by an Indian (after 6 by Sehwag, 2009 Rajkot) vs SL
100* run partnership is India’s highest for 8th wicket in ODIs.
11th 100+ partnerships between Dhawan and Rohit Sharma in ODIs.
168 run win is India’s third biggest win over Sri Lanka.
30th ODI century by Kohli, 8th vs Sri Lanka.
6th Whitewash of 5-0 by Indians in ODI. 3 under Kohli, 2 under Dhoni and 1 under Gambhir.
2nd 5-0 whitewash by India in AWAY series after 5-0 whitewash in Zimbabwe 2013.
1000 ODI runs for 5th time in Calendar year by Kohli. Tendulkar (seven times) and Sourav Ganguly, Sangakkara and Ponting (six times) are ahead of him.
1st time two pacers took 5-wkt haul in a series. Only other instance was 1996 World Cup, where Robin Singh and Venkatesh Prasad matched the feat. Overall including spinners its 5th such instance for Indians.
Sri Lankan Record
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5-0 is 1st whitewash of Sri Lanka at home by any team.
197* run partnership is highest by any visiting pair in Sri Lanka for 2nd wicket
6/54 by Dananjaya is 3rd best bowing by any spinner vs India, after 7 for 30 of Muttiah Muralitharan and 6 for 13 of Ajanta Mendis.
375 Highest ODI total vs Sri Lanka at home. Overall 3rd highest total on Sri Lankan soil.
168 run loss is the biggest loss for SL at home.
300 wickets for Malinga (Wicket of Kohli)
World Records
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15 wickets by Bumrah is the highest by any fast bowler in an ODI series of 5 or lesser matches.
127 balls remaining is 4th best in World in Chase of 200+ score behind 177(WI vs Canada, 2003), 144 (Aus vs Ban, 2011) and 136 (Pak vs Ind, 1997)
8th consecutive ODI series wins vs SL by India, 2nd highest after Pakistan’s 9 ODI series win vs WI.
3 200+ partnership betwen Rohit and Kohli is joint highest in the world with with Gautam Gambhir and Kohli, Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar, and Mahela Jayawardene and Upul Tharanga.
74 unbeaten knock in ODI made Dhoni break joint record held by Pollock and Chaminda Vaas of 72 such knocks.
8th time Malinga has conceded 80+ runs in ODI, the most by any bowler.
186 innings for 30 ODI centuries makes Kohli the quickest. Ponting took 349 innings. Tendulkar took 267 innings.
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