Smith gets out of a rut
Stats highlights from the South Africa-India match at Centurion
S Rajesh
03-Dec-2006
South Africa's win against India in the last match of the series was their first in three attempts against this opponent at Centurion. Cricinfo lists some of the other significant numbers from this game.
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1 - The number of runs India scored between overs 10 and 15. There were four maiden overs during that period.
8.1 overs - The stage of the game when Graeme Smith finally faced his first ball from Zaheer Khan, who has been his nemesis throughout this series. At that stage Smith had already scored 21 from 17 balls
106.25 - AB de Villiers's scoring rate against Zaheer. In 32 balls, de Villiers scored 34
30 - The number of runs Smith had scored in his last six ODIs before the match at Centurion
92 not out - AB de Villiers's score at Centurion. It's his highest in ODIs, beating the 68 he scored against Australia at Port Elizabeth in 2005-06.
2 - The number of fifty-plus scores for Sachin Tendulkar in 20 ODIs against South Africa in South Africa. He averages 26.1 in those matches.
6 - The number of consecutive day games at Centurion that the team batting second has won. (Click here for the results of day games here.)
17.72 - Shaun Pollock's bowling average against India in 16 ODIs since 2001. His economy rate in those games is 3.62.
6 - The number of times Pollock has dismissed Virender Sehwag in ODIs. No other bowler has dismissed him more often, while Rana Naved-ul-Hasan and Chaminda Vaas have also dismissed him six times.
6 - India's current losing streak in ODIs. The last time they had such a poor run was in 1988-89, when they lost five in the West Indies and two more in Sharjah, for a total of seven losses in a row.
S Rajesh is stats editor of Cricinfo.