As India completed a 3-0 whitewash against West Indies on Friday, let’s take a look at all relevant numbers of the match.
First whitewash against West Indies:
It’s the 12th time when India clean swept a series of 3 or more ODI matches. However, it’s the first time they achieved this feat against West Indies in this format. The last time India whitewashed an ODI series, was in 2017 when they beat Sri Lanka by 5-0. Overall they achieved this feat against Zimbabwe most times (4), Sri Lanka is next on the list with 3, New Zealand & England (2 each)
Struggle for Virat Kohli:
Virat Kohli scored 26 runs in this 3-match series which is the second-lowest for him in a bilateral series. He scored 13 runs in 3-match series against Pakistan in 2012-13. Also, the last time he failed to make a 50+ score in an ODI series was against Bangladesh in 2015.
30 out of 30 for bowlers:
It’s the first time for India when all wickets were picked by bowlers in a 3 or more match ODI series. West Indies failed to play their full quota of 50 overs on any one of the occasions. Prasidh Krishna finished as the leading wicket-taker in the series with 9 scalps, 5 each for Mohammed Siraj and Yuzvendra Chahal, 4 for Washington Sundar, 2 each for Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, and Kuldeep Yadav, one for Deepak Hooda.
A series to remember for Prasidh Krishna:
Prasidh Krishna finished the series with 9 wickets in his tally. He picked 18 wickets in his 7-match ODI career. No Indian bowler has picked that many wickets in his first 7 matches. Jasprit Bumrah and Ajit Agarkar picked 16 each in their first 7 matches. Prasidh Krishna was also awarded his maiden ‘Player of the Series’ award. In this series, he picked 9 wickets with an average of 7.65 and an economy of 2.50.
Skipper Rohit Sharma:
Since Rohit Sharma took over as full-time white-ball captain for India, he hasn’t done a foot wrong so for India. He clean-swept New Zealand in the 3-match T20I series and now he did the same in the ODI series against West Indies. So far in 13 ODIs as captain, India won 11 won of those games. No Indian captain won that many games in his first 13 ODIs. Closest was Virat Kohli who won 10 games in his first 13 matches as captain.
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