Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], December 5 (ANI): The ultimate ODI between India and South Africa will happen at Visakhapatnam’s Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, which has traditionally been a cheerful searching floor for Indian batting legend Virat Kohli, who will likely be aiming to finish a hat-trick of centuries within the collection.
The third ODI between India and South Africa, with scoreline stage at 1-1, will happen at Visakhapatnam. Having already scored 237 runs within the collection, with a blistering 135 in 120 balls at Ranchi, adopted by a extra managed 102 in 93 balls at Raipur, Virat could be aiming for a hat-trick of centuries.
If Virat pulls off an hat-trick, he might grow to be the first-ever Indian batter to have pulled off two hat-tricks of ODI centuries and total second after Pakistan’s Babar Azam. He had beforehand achieved so in opposition to the West Indies method again in 2018, scoring 140, 157* and 107 within the first three ODIs. Virat had ended because the ‘Participant of the Sequence’ with 453 runs in 5 innings at a mean of 151.00 and a strike price of virtually 113.
At Visakhapatnam to this point, Virat has smashed 587 runs throughout seven innings at a mean of 97.83, with a strike price of 100.34, together with three centuries, two fifties, and a finest rating of 157*. That is essentially the most runs he has scored at an Indian venue.
Maybe the most effective reminiscence of Virat at Visakhapatnam got here method again in 2010, when, on the age of simply 21, he performed a clutch knock of 118 in 121 balls, with 11 fours and a six, to assist India chase down 290 within the second ODI in opposition to Australia after India had been down at 35/2.
Additionally, Virat stands simply 90 runs away from becoming a member of legends Sachin Tendulkar (34,357 runs) and Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara (28,016 runs) to grow to be the third batter to finish 28,000 runs in worldwide cricket. In 555 worldwide matches, he has made 27,910 runs at a mean of 52.46, with 84 centuries and 144 fifties in 622 innings, with a finest rating of 254*.
In 12 ODIs this yr, Virat has scored 586 runs in 12 innings at a mean of 58.60, with a strike price of 92.72, together with three centuries, three fifties and a finest rating of 135.
Squads:India Squad: Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Ruturaj Gaikwad, KL Rahul(w/c), Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Rishabh Pant, Tilak Varma, Dhruv Jurel, Nitish Kumar Reddy South Africa Squad: Aiden Markram, Quinton de Kock(w), Temba Bavuma(c), Matthew Breetzke, Dewald Brevis, Tony de Zorzi, Marco Jansen, Corbin Bosch, Keshav Maharaj, Nandre Burger, Lungi Ngidi, Ryan Rickelton, Ottneil Baartman, Rubin Hermann, Prenelan Subrayen. (ANI)
