ICC Champions Trophy: Match 1, Group B, Ind vs SA - Statistical Highlights

South African innings’ highlights

# Hashim Amla, in his last 3 innings against India, scored 64, 116* and 61 runs. But today, he was dismissed on 22 runs in this match.

# Like the new Indian opening pair, even South Africa played with a new opening pair. This pair of Amla/Ingram is the 72nd opening pair for SA in ODIs. But unlike the Indian pair, they managed only 13 runs for the first wicket.

MS Dhoni became the 5th wicketkeeper to effect 275 or more dismissals in ODIs

# Robin Peterson, in his 69th ODI match, scored 68 runs which was also his maiden half-century. He bettered his previous best of 44 vs Pakistan at Centurion in March 2013.

# AB de Villiers scored his 33rd fifty in ODIs and 7th as captain in 21 matches (as captain).

# This was AB de Villiers’s 16th fifty as wicketkeeper in ODIs. He has scored 9 100s and 16 50s as wicketkeeper in 49 ODIs while just 5 100s and 17 50s in 91 matches as non-keeper.

# AB de Villiers averages 90.75 as captain in ODIs with the bat which is highest for any captain who has played 10 or more matches as captain. Next best is 56.75 by MS Dhoni.

# AB de Villiers scored his 4th consecutive 50 in ODI matches and all as captain. He scored 128, 75 and 95* against Pakistan in the previous series. In fact this was his 6th 50+ score in last 8 ODIs.

# David Miller scored his 2nd duck in ODI career and first diamond duck 0(0).

# David Miller became the first batsman to be run-out without facing a ball in ICC Champions Trophy.

Ryan McLaren scored his maiden ODI 50 and took 3/70

# MS Dhoni completed 275 dismissals in ODIs when he caught Hashim Amla. He now has 276 dismissals (208 catches + 68 stumpings).

# MS Dhoni became the 5th keeper to effect over 275 dismissals and the first Indian.

# Ryan McLaren, in his 23rd ODI, scored his maiden half-century (71* off 61). His previous best was 33 vs NZ in Jan 2013.

# South Africa scored 305 while chasing. This is only the second instance of a team scoring 300 or more while chasing in Champions Trophy. South Africa also were the first to do it when they scored 301 runs while chasing a total of 327 by England at Centurion in 2009 edition.

# The match aggregate of 636 runs is the highest in a Champions Trophy match. Only other 600+ aggregate is 624 between SA and Eng in 2009. On both occasions, SA was on losing side.

# This was 6th defeat in ODIs for SA where they scored over 300 runs.

# India have never lost to SA in Champions Trophy. They have played 3 matches and all 3 have been won by India.

# This was India’s 11th win in Champions Trophy matches. Only Australia and West Indies have won more, 12.

# This was South Africa’s 8th loss in Champions Trophy matches. Only West Indies and Zimbabwe have lost more, 9.

# Shikhar Dhawan also won his maiden Man of the Match award in ODIs.

India play their next match against West Indies on 11th June.

South Africa play their next match against Pakistan on 10th June.

That’s all from the statistical highlights of India vs South Africa match.