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Stats Analysis

Rohit contributes 50%, yet again

Stats highlights from the first match of the Asia Cup in Mirpur, where Rohit Sharma helped India to a big win over the hosts

Shiva Jayaraman
24-Feb-2016
229.62 Rohit Sharma's strike rate after he was dropped by Shakib-Al-Hasan off Taskin Ahmed. In the next 27 balls he faced, Rohit hammered 62 runs, hitting six fours and three sixes. The only dot he faced after being dropped was the ball he got out on. Till that reprieve, he had scored 21 off 28 balls with 13 dots.
50 Percentage contribution to India's total by Rohit - the fifth-highest* in a completed innings for India in a T20I. Virat Kohli's 59.23% contribution in the final of the 2014 World T20 is the highest. Rohit occupies the second and the fourth spots also in the list. He contributed 58.51% runs to India's total against Australia in the 2010 World T20 and 53.26% against South Africa last year.
11 Fifty-plus scores by Rohit in T20Is. Only four other batsmen have more such scores. David Warner and Shane Watson also have 11 such scores. Rohit has made 1149 runs at an average of 34.81 and a strike rate of 129.53.
4 India batsmen who have completed 1000 T20I runs including Yuvraj Singh, who reached the milestone during his 16-ball 15 in this game. Kohli, Rohit and Suresh Raina are the others to do it.
28 Runs by Hardik Pandya off the first 11 deliveries he faced, including a six and four fours. He had faced only one dot by then. The last seven balls he faced, however, produced only three runs and five dots. Pandya's 18-ball 31 was the first time in over two years an India batsman at No. 5 or lower had made 30 or more runs at a strike rate of 170-plus. Pandya has now scored 60 T20I runs at a strike rate of 166.66.
2010 The last time before Bangladesh's innings, four or more bowlers from a team had gone for less than run-a-ball in a T20I from four overs against a full member team. Four of Zimbabwe's bowlers had gone at less than six runs an over in a T20I against West Indies. The only other such instance was when four of Australia's bowlers had such returns against New Zealand in a T20I in Wellington. In this match, Ashish Nehra, Jasprit Bumrah, R Ashwin and Pandya had economy of under six runs an over.
3 Number of times Al-Amin Hossain has taken a three-wicket haul in T20Is including his 3 for 37 in this match. Apart from Al-Amin's three instances, only once has a Bangladesh pacer taken three or more wickets in a T20I: Mashrafe Mortaza took 4 for 19 against Ireland in 2012, which are the best figures by a Bangladesh fast bowler in T20Is. Overall, only Shakib (5) has taken more such hauls than Al-Amin.
3 Three-wicket hauls by Nehra in T20Is including his 3 for 23 on Wednesday. These are his second-best figures in T20 internationals. His best (3 for 19) came against Afghanistan in the 2010 World T20.
45 India's win margin in this match - their fifth-highest while batting first in a T20. Their 90-run win over England in the 2012 World T20 is their highest.
31 Runs scored by India in the Powerplay - the joint fourth-lowest they have scored in these overs in T20Is. Incidentally, they had scored exactly 31 in the first six overs of the 2014 World T20 final against Sri Lanka, which was their last T20I in Bangladesh, at the same venue.
114 Runs scored by India in the last ten overs - the fifth-highest they have made in these overs in T20Is. The last time they had scored more runs in the last ten overs was against Pakistan in 2012-13 when they had scored 120 off the last ten. By the end of the tenth over in this match, India had crawled to 52, their third-lowest score in their first ten overs in T20Is.
*05:45 GMT: This stat was corrected. It previously said fourth-highest.

Shiva Jayaraman is a senior sub-editor (stats) at ESPNcricinfo.com