South Africa equal highest ODI run chase against India:Kohli’s 40th century at home ground, Rohit completes 9 thousand runs; top records

South Africa, who defeated India 2-0 in the Test series on home ground, dealt another blow to Team India. The team chased down a target of 359 runs against India in Raipur on Wednesday. This equalled the record for the highest successful run chase against India. Top records from IND vs SA 2nd ODI: 1. Highest run chase against India South Africa achieved the target of 359 runs with 4 balls remaining. This equalled the record for the highest successful run chase against India in ODIs. Earlier, in 2019, Australia had also chased 359 runs at Mohali. India and South Africa together scored 720 runs in the match. This was the first time so many runs were scored between the two teams in an ODI. Earlier, in the first match of this series, both teams together scored 681 runs. 2. India’s second-highest total against South Africa India registered its second-highest ODI score against South Africa in Raipur. The team scored 358 runs for the loss of 5 wickets, India’s second-highest score against South Africa. Before this, in 2010, India had also scored 401 runs at Gwalior This match was the 44th occasion in India’s ODI history when two batters scored centuries in the same innings. This is the most for any team. The second team in this record is South Africa, which has 30 such instances. 3. Kohli’s 7th ODI century against South Africa Kohli scored his 7th century against South Africa in ODIs. No other player has scored more centuries against them than Kohli. Sachin Tendulkar is second with 5 centuries. Across all three formats, this was Kohli’s 10th century against South Africa. In this record, Sachin is at the top with 12 centuries. Kohli scored a century in his third consecutive ODI against South Africa. He had also scored centuries in the 2023 ODI World Cup and the first ODI of this series. Kohli scored his first ODI century in Raipur. He has now scored centuries at 34 different venues. With this record, he equalled Tendulkar. 4. Kohli scored centuries in two consecutive matches for the 11th time Kohli has achieved the feat of scoring centuries in two consecutive ODI matches for the 11th time. No other batsman has done this more times than him in ODI cricket. At second place is South Africa’s AB de Villiers, who has done it 6 times. Rohit Sharma has done it 4 times. Kohli has now become a player to score 7 or more ODI centuries against 4 different teams. He has 10 centuries against Sri Lanka, 9 against West Indies, 8 against Australia, and 7 against South Africa. He is the only batsman to achieve this feat. Before this, only Sachin Tendulkar had done so against two teams. He has 9 centuries against Australia and 8 against Sri Lanka. 5. Kohli scored his 40th century at home Virat Kohli scored his 40th international century in India. Only Sachin Tendulkar is ahead of him, with 42 centuries. At third place is Australia’s Ricky Ponting with 36 centuries. 6. Rohit completes 9 thousand runs in India Rohit Sharma completed his 9 thousand international runs in India. With this achievement, he reached the third position in the record for players with the most runs scored in the country. Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for the most runs in India, having scored 14,192 runs. Virat Kohli is in second place with 12,475 runs. Rohit has now also surpassed Rahul Dravid (9,004) with 9,005 runs. 7. Kohli-Gaikwad’s record partnership Kohli and Ruturaj Gaikwad made India’s biggest partnership in ODIs against South Africa. Together, they added 195 runs for the third wicket. Before this, the record was held by Sachin Tendulkar and Dinesh Karthik. They had added 194 runs at the Gwalior ground in 2010. 8. Gaikwad’s century in 77 balls Ruturaj Gaikwad scored India’s second-fastest ODI century against South Africa. He achieved this feat in 77 balls. Only Yusuf Pathan is ahead of him, who scored a century in 68 balls at the Centurion ground in 2011. 9. India lost 20 consecutive tosses India has lost the toss in 20 consecutive ODI matches. This streak started with the 2023 World Cup final (Ahmedabad) and continues to this day. On the other hand, the worst consecutive toss-losing streak in ODIs belongs to the Netherlands, who lost the toss 11 consecutive times between March 2011 and August 2013.