Stats highlights from the first Champions Trophy semi-final between Australia and India in Dubai
Sampath Bandarupalli04-Mar-20250.000061 – The probability of losing 14 consecutive tosses, which India have done in ODIs in the Champions Trophy semi-final against Australia. Their current streak of lost tosses began at the 2023 ODI World Cup final in Ahmedabad.Rohit Sharma has been captain in 11 of those 14 matches, one behind Brian Lara’s record for consecutive tosses lost as captain in men’s ODIs (12).4-3 – India’s win-loss record in knockout matches against Australia at ICC ODI events (World Cups and Champions Trophies). Australia have lost only five of their 22 knockouts against all other teams. India boast a 3-0 record against Australia in Champions Trophy knockout games.Related
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24 – Virat Kohli now has 24 fifty-plus scores at ICC ODI events (World Cups and Champions Trophies), the most by any batter, surpassing Sachin Tendulkar’s 23.Kohli has seven fifty-plus scores in the Champions Trophy, the most by any batter, going past Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and Shikhar Dhawan, who all have six such scores.3 – Kohli has scored a fifty in all three semi-finals he has been part of at the Champions Trophy, all while chasing. He scored 58* against Sri Lanka in 2013, 96* against Bangladesh in 2017, and 84 against Australia on Tuesday.5 – Fifty-plus scores in knockout matches for Steven Smith and Kohli at ICC ODI events (World Cups and Champions Trophies), behind only Tendulkar (6).6 – Dismissals against legspinners for Kohli in ODIs since the start of 2024. He has scored 72 runs against them off 109 balls, averaging 12 per dismissal. Here, he scored 35 off 32 balls against Australia’s legspinners before falling to one of them, Adam Zampa.Varun Chakravarthy struck with his second ball, accounting for Travis Head•Associated Press1 – Varun Chakravarthy is the first spinner to dismiss Travis Head in the first ten overs of an ODI innings. Head had scored 135 runs off 115 balls against spin in the first ten overs in ODIs without being dismissed before falling to Varun. This dismissal came off the first ball Varun had bowled to Head in any format.1 – Runs Head scored off his first 11 balls, the fewest he has had at that point in an ODI innings. However, he scored 38 runs in his next 22 balls until his dismissal.161 – Catches for Kohli in ODIs – the second-highest as a non-wicketkeeper, going ahead of Ricky Ponting (160) and only behind Mahela Jayawardene’s 218.4 – Dismissals for Marnus Labuschagne against Ravindra Jadeja in ODIs. Haris Rauf (4) is the only other bowler to dismiss Labuschagne as often as Jadeja in this format. Labuschagne has scored 120 runs against Jadeja across ten innings while striking at 66.67.9 – Balls faced by Cooper Connolly, all off Mohammed Shami, before falling for a duck. Connolly had played and missed six straight balls before edging one to KL Rahul.The sweep proved fruitful for Alex Carey•ICC via Getty Images300.00 – Strike rate of Australian batters while playing the sweep against India’s spinners, as per ESPNcricinfo’s ball-by-ball logs. They scored 48 runs off 16 sweep shots, with eight boundaries, including four sixes. It is the highest strike rate for any team playing the sweep against spinners in a men’s ODI since 2015, for a minimum of 15 such shots.Alex Carey scored 21 off seven sweep shots, with three fours and a six. In the previous match, New Zealand’s batters scored only 13 runs off the sweep shot despite attempting it 22 times.7 – Not-in-control shots for Smith in the 11 balls he faced from Shami, whom he got out to eventually. He was comfortable against the other Indian bowlers, with only nine not-in-control shots off 85 balls against them.153 – Number of dot balls in Australia’s innings. India had only 124 of them. Australia hit more boundaries – 20 fours and eight sixes, while India had only 16 fours and seven sixes. However, India took the edge in rotating the strike, with 127 singles compared to 103 by Australia.78 – Innings that KL Rahul needed to complete 3000 runs in ODIs. Only two Indian batters got to that milestone quicker – Dhawan in 72 innings and Kohli in 75 innings.
