Numbers: India vs England 2012/13

- Suresh Raina scored 83 off 98 balls. This is the longest innings he played in India in terms of balls faced. His previous best also came against the same opponent when India played them at Faridabad in 2006. Raina had scored 81* runs off 89 balls in that match.

- Raina has now scored 4 half-centuries in as many innings he has played. The record for India is shared between Sachin Tendulkar (1996) and Virat Kohli (2012), who had scored 5 in a row.

- In the process of scoring his 4th half century of the series, Raina has crossed 4000 ODI runs. He is the 13th Indian to do so and 84th international cricketer to achieve this feat.

- Raina scored his 4000 ODI runs at a strike rate of 91.55. This is the 6th best strike rate overall for a player who have scored more than 4000 runs and 2nd best for India. Virender Sehwag has a strike rate of 104.33 with 8273 ODI runs under his belt.

- Suresh Raina’s batting average is 92.33 in this series. This is the best average in a bilateral series. However, his overall best series average is 105 that came in a tri series held at Bangladesh in 2009/10 with Sri Lanka as the third participant.

- Suresh Raina has amassed 277 runs with the bat in this series. These are his best figures in the billateral series. He surpassed his previous best of 242 runs, which he scored in 6-match home series against England in 2005/06.

- Suresh Raina has scored 29 fours in this series. This is his most number of fours scored in a bilateral series. His previous best also came against England in the 2011/12 home series where he scored 22 boundaries.

- Ravinder Jadeja has amassed 128 runs, with an average of 64, courtesy of his 2 not-out-innings. This is his best average in a bilateral series.

- Rohit Sharma was dismissed for 4 runs off Bresnan in today’s match. He has been dismissed for the same score for 4 times in his last 5 ODI innings.

- Yuvraj Singh’s batting average of 25.20 is the 4th worst series average in a 5 match bilateral series.

- In the 5th ODI, it is interesting to note that India had lost their first 6 wickets in the following manner – 1st (21.1 ov), 2nd (12.2 ov), 3rd (3.3 ov), 4th (3.4 ov), 5th (6.5 ov) & 6th (46.6 ov)

- Jane Dernbach has dismissed MS Dhoni 3 times and James Tredwell has dismissed Yuvraj Singh 4 times in this series.

- In the 4th ODI, Jane Dernbach has become the most expensive ODI bowler with an economy rate of 6.28. (Minimum Qual: 1000 balls bowled ). This infamous record was previously held by India’s S. Sreesanth who has the economy rate of 6.08.

- In the 4th ODI, Kevin Pietersen had scored his 50 in 84 balls. This is his slowest ODI fifty in terms of balls faced. His previous slowest was 53 in 82 balls in 2007, which was also against India at The Oval.

- In the 3rd ODI, Virat Kohli became the 12th Indian and 83rd international player to total 4000 ODI runs. He became the second quickest after Sir Vivian Richards to achieve this feat in terms of matches played. ( 96 m, 93 inn)

- With the age of 24 years and 75 days, Kohli became the second youngest cricketer to score 4000 ODI runs. Sachin Tendulkar achieved this feat when he was 22 years and 359 days.

- By winning the 3rd ODI against England, India moved to number 1 spot in the ICC ODI rankings followed by England and South Africa.

- In the 2nd ODI, England lost to India by 127 runs. This is their 8th biggest loss overall in terms of runs they fell short of and 2nd biggest against India.

- Kevin Pietersen scored 1000 ODI runs against India. He is the first English man and 41st international player to do so.

- In the 1st ODI, England beat India by 7 runs. This is their first win to go with the sole tie in this country in the 13 games they have played here.

- In the 1st ODI, MS Dhoni has hit his 150th ODI six. He is the 6th international player to achieve this feat.

- In the 1st ODI, England and India aggregated 641 runs without a single centurion from either side. This is the 4th highest total under this criteria.

- Before the series began, India’s Yuvraj Singh had the most ODI runs and most ODI wickets among all the players from either side.