Statistical Highlights: 4th ODI, India vs New Zealand

Bangalore:

Following are the statistical highlights of the fourth ODI between India and New Zealand in Bangalore.
 
# Yusuf Pathan (123 not out) has posted his career-best innings in ODIs - his maiden hundred. 
 
# Yusuf, for the first time in an ODI, has recorded a hundred and captured three wickets in the same match.
 
# Yusuf is the fifth Indian all-rounder after Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh and Robin Singh to accomplish the double of a hundred and three wickets in the same match.
 
# Yusuf has received the Man of the Match for the first time in ODIs.
 
# Yusuf's tally of seven sixes in an innings is bettered only by Mahendra Singh Dhoni in ODIs. Dhoni had hit ten sixes in his unbeaten innings of 183 off 145 balls against Sri Lanka at Jaipur on October 31, 2005.
 
# Saurabh Tiwary (37 not out) has recorded his highest innings in ODIs, surpassing the 12 not out against Australia at Visakhapatnam on October 20, 2010.
 
# Rohit Sharma (44) has registered his highest innings against New Zealand, eclipsing the 43 not out at Auckland on March 14, 2009
 
# Yusuf and Tiwary were involved in a stand of 133 (unbroken) for the sixth wicket - India's highest against New Zealand, bettering the 127 between Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajay Sharma at Vadodara on December 17, 1988.
 
# Parthiv Patel has recorded his career-best innings in ODIs, outstripping the 28 against Australia at Sydney on January 22, 2004.
 
# Virat Kohli has posted his third duck in ODIs - his first against New Zealand.
 
# Kohli's aggregate of  232 (ave.77.33)in four innings at a strike rate of 93.17 in the present series is the second highest, next only to Gautam Gambhir (329).
 
# James Franklin's outstanding unbeaten knock of 98 is his best ever in ODIs, surpassing the 72 not out against India at Vadodara on December 4, 2010.
 
# Franklin's above two innings are his only fifties in ODIs.
 
# India have posted their third successive opening stand of sixty-plus in the present series - 87 by Gambhir and Vijay at Jaipur and 115 at Vadodara followed by 67 by Gambhir and Parthiv Patel at Bangalore on December 7 - the first such instance for India against New Zealand in India in the same series.
 
# New Zealand (315/7) have registered their fourth highest total against India in ODIs - their highest three are 349 for nine at Rajkot on November 5, 1999, 348 for eight at Nagpur on November 26, 1995 and 334 at Christchurch on March 8, 2009.
 
# Yusuf Pathan (3/49) has recorded his career-best bowling performance in ODIs, bettering the 3 for 56 against West Indies at Kingston on June 26, 2009.
 
# Pathan has bagged six wickets (20.50) in an ODI series for the first time.
 
# Parthiv Patel had last appeared for India on July 27, 2004 - against Sri Lanka at Colombo (RPS).
 
# Brendon McCullum (42 off 42 balls) has posted his highest innings against India in India.
 
# Franklin and Nathan McCullum have managed a partnership of 64 (unbroken) for the eighth wicket - New Zealand's second highest against India, next only to the 94 between the same pair at Vadodara on December 4, 2010.
 
# The above stand is the highest for the eighth wicket at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore against India.
 
# Gautam Gambhir has set a record for the highest run-aggregate in a bilateral series in India-New Zealand ODIs - 329 at an average of 164.50, including two hundreds.
 
# Gambhir has overtaken Rahul Dravid's aggregate of 309 (ave.77.25) in five games in New Zealand in 1998-99.
 
# Gambhir's runs' tally of 329 is also the highest by an Indian captain in a bilateral series, bettering the 312 (ave.156.00) in six games by Rahul Dravid against Sri Lanka in India in 2005-06.
 
# New Zealand have not won a single game, losing ten, since beating India by 200 runs at Dambulla on August 10, 2010.
 
# India have registered their 45th win over New Zealand in 87 ODIs (Lost 37 and NR 5) - success % 54.87.
 
# India have won the first four games in an ODI series against New Zealand for the second time. India had won by 4-0 in India in 1988-89.
 
# India (321 for five) have posted their third highest successful chase - the top two being the 326 for eight against England at Lord's on July 13, 2002 and 325 for five against West Indies at Ahmedabad on November 15, 2002.
 
# New Zealand (315/7) have recorded the fourth highest total against India in ODIs - their top three being the 349 for nine at Rajkot on November 5, 1999, 348 for eight at Nagpur on November 26, 1995 and 334 at Christchurch on March8, 2009.
 
# India's 321/5 is the second highest total at this venue - the highest being the 347 for two by Australia against India on November 12, 2003.
 
# India's total is the highest by a team batting second at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.