After a convincing 66 run win in the first ODI, Team India are all set to come out all guns blazing in the second match of the 3 game series to try and wrap up a series win.
The second and third ODIs of the series will also be played in Pune. The second match will be played today, beginning at 1:30 pm IST.
Ahead of the second ODI today, here’s a quick look at some of the big statistics and approaching landmarks, including Virat Kohli being just one century away from equalling a record currently held by Sachin Tendulkar:
* Virat Kohli (India) is one century away from equalling the record for most men’s ODI tons in India (currently held by Sachin Tendulkar – 20)
* Virat is also one century shy of posting the joint-most hundreds in men’s ODIs between India and England (record currently held by Yuvraj Singh – four)
* England are looking to avoid back-to-back multi-game men’s ODI bilateral series defeats for the first time since 2014 when they lost three such series in succession (two against Sri Lanka and one versus India); Eoin Morgan’s men are 1-0 down in this three-match series currently.
* India have only suffered three defeats in their last 22 completed men’s ODI games played at home versus England (Won 18, Tied 1). They have registered five victories in their last six men’s ODI matches in India (Lost 1). They had endured a four-match losing streak on home soil before this current run
* England go into the second ODI vs India having tasted defeat in back-to-back men’s ODI matches. They have not lost three in a row since February 2016
* England batsmen have the highest strike rate of any Test-playing nation during the opening 10 overs in men’s ODI games since the start of 2018 (100.4); the tourists ended the opening powerplay on 89-0 compared to the 39-0 recorded by India in the last ODI in Pune (23 March 2021)
* England seamers recorded six full toss deliveries between them in the men’s ODI series opener (23 March 2021); India’s seam bowlers did not log one between them, however
* We have only seen 16 yorker-length deliveries across the white-ball matches played in this tour so far (five men’s T20Is and one men’s ODI); only four of them have been bowled by India
* Jonny Bairstow (England) struck seven sixes in the series opener (23 March 2021), the joint-most he has ever recorded in an ODI innings; he has logged scores of 111 and 94 in his last two knocks against India
* Prasidh Krishna managed to record figures of 4/54 in the last ODI at this venue against England (23 March 2021), the best figures by a bowler on men’s ODI debut for India.