India vs West Indies 2019-20 3rd ODI, statistical preview: West Indies return to their bogey ground, but so does Kohli

West Indies had brushed India aside comfortably in the first ODI at Chepauk, but India drew level with a resounding win in the second, at Visakhapatnam. The teams will now meet for the decider, at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack. Ahead of the match, here is a statistical preview.

Statistical preview

1 win-loss ratio of India and West Indies against each other (63 wins, 63 defeats). This is the 4th-worst record for both sides against any opposition.

1 wicket needed by Kuldeep Yadav (99) to become the 22nd Indian and 151st overall to take 100 ODI wickets.

1 uncapped player in the Indian side – Mayank Agarwal. He may become their 229th ODI cap.

2 average of Virat Kohli in this series (he has scored 4 and 0), the worst in his career. Kohli’s previous worst series average was 4.33 against Pakistan in 2012-13, when he had scored 0, 6, and 7.

3 ODIs for West Indies at Cuttack and they have lost all 3, all of them to India – in 1994-95, 2006-07, and 2011-12. On no other Indian ground do they have a record this ordinary.

4 wickets needed by Ravindra Jadeja (40) to go past Kapil Dev (43) and become the leading wicket-taker for India against West Indies. Anil Kumble has 41.

11 average of Kohli at Cuttack, his worst on any Indian ground. He has scored 3, 22, and 8 here.

12 wins for India at Cuttack, from 16 ODIs. This is their joint 2nd-most at home, after their 13 wins in 20 matches at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru. They have also won 12 matches at each of Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi (out of 20) and Eden Gardens, Kolkata (out of 21).

56 runs needed by Kohli (11,524) to go past Jacques Kallis (11,579) and become the 7th-most run-getter in ODI history.

63 runs needed by Rohit Sharma (1,427) to go past Martin Guptill (1,489 in 2015) to register the most runs in a single calendar year since 2007. Virat Kohli had scored 1,460 in 2017. If one takes Matthew Hayden’s 2007 tally of 1,601 runs away, one has to go back to 2000 to find an aggregate more than Rohit’s 1,427.

109.83 batting average of Shai Hope on Indian soil, for his 659 runs. With a 250-run cut-off, only Angelo Mathews (608 runs at 121.60) has a better average in India.

1303 runs for Hope in 2019, the 2nd-most runs for West Indies in a calendar year. He needs 47 runs to go past Brian Lara (1,349 in 1993).

1427 for Rohit, 1303 for Hope, and 1292 for Kohli in 2019. They occupy the top three spots.

2150 runs for Kohli against West Indies, the most in history.