THE WEEK IN NUMBERS: MORGAN'S MILESTONE, SRI LANKAN HISTORY AND VIRAT'S STREAK

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Virat Kohli’s home winning streak as India captain. The sequence came to an end as England’s fine display at Kanpur saw them to a seven-wicket victory. Virat had overseen 10 Test wins, two Test draws and seven victorious ODIs. There’s no place like...

1,511

Morgan’s 51 at Kanpur marked his eighth T20I fifty – in the process he became the first England player to pass 1,500 runs in the format. Of those still playing his closest companions are Alex Hales (1,257), Jos Buttler (928) and Joe Root (646).

1

Number of series wins Sri Lanka have registered in South Africa in any format.

The hosts dealt Sri Lanka three heavy defeats in the Test series to secure victory by a 3-0 margin.

After losing a rain-affected opener in the three-match T20 series the tourists fought back to win the next two securing a historic series win on South African soil.

In the third-and-final T20 the Proteas registered an unwanted hat-trick of three successive dropped catches.

An exasperated Wayne Parnell looked on as Dane Paterson, then Mangaliso Mosehle, shelled chances before completing the sequence himself by putting down Niroshan Dickwella off his own bowling.

2,090

If one-day cricket is the most at risk in a potentially two-format world, England and India are doing their best to save it.

The contest realised the most runs scored in a three-match (or less) ODI series to date. Here’s the top three:

• England in India, 2017 (2,090 runs)
• Afro-Asia Cup, 2007 (1,892 runs)
• South Africa in India, 2010 (1,884 runs)

46*

Joe Root’s unbeaten 46 in the first T20I at Kanpur marked the first time in which he has not passed fifty in a match since the tour of India began. Root registered half centuries at Rajkot, Visakhapatnam, Mohali, Mumbai and Chennai in the Test series before hitting 78 and 54 at Pune and Cuttack in the ODIs.

2

The number of times David Warner has been awarded the Allan Border medal.

Warner joins Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke and Shane Watson as players who have won the honour in back-to-back years.

It has been a good week for the Aussie opener as his 284-run partnership with Travis Head broke the record for Australia’s highest in ODIs. The stand surpassed the 260-run partnership between Warner and Steven Smith against Afghanistan at Perth in the 2015 World Cup. It was the second-highest opening stand of all time; Sri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya and Upul Tharanga put on 286 together against England at Headingley, 2006.

4-2-3-3-0.75

Mitchell Johnson’s figures in the Big Bash semi-final between Perth Scorchers and Melbourne Stars at the WACA.

At his best, a rabid, snarling, menace of a man. Steaming in, trebuchet arm, turning batsman into dust. On other occasions capable of bowling nothing but “wide filth” to quote Nasser.

Johnson struck with the opening ball of the match to remove Rob Quiney, and soon added Luke Wright and Kevin Pietersen to the list as he removed the Stars’ top three in an excellent four-over spell.

Perth won by seven wickets with 19 balls remaining – they will face the Sydney Sixers in the final on Saturday morning,

Bowled, Mitch.