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Stats: India's highest successful chase against Australia

October 21, 2010 14:45 IST

Statistical highlights of the second ODI between India [ Images ] and Australia [ Images ], at Visakhapatnam [ Images ], on Wednesday.

# Cameron White [ Images ] is the top run-scorer for Australia in 2010, aggregating 813 (average 47.82) in 22 matches, including one century and six fifties.

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# White's outstanding unbeaten 89 off 49 balls is his highest innings against India, eclipsing the 62 at Mohali on November 2, 2009.

# Shaun Marsh [ Images ] registered his second duck in ODIs.

# Michael Hussey [ Images ] (69 off 77 balls) posted his 32nd fifty in ODIs -- his sixth against India.

# Hussey, in India, has performed quite well -- 462 in ten innings at an average of 77.00, including four fifties.

# The 137-run third-wicket partnership between Kohli and Yuvraj is the highest for India at the venue.

# Suresh Raina's [ Images ] third fifty against Australia is his 16th in ODIs.  His superb unbeaten 71 off 47 balls is his ninth fifty in 27 innings in India.

# Clint McKay (3/55) registered his best bowling figures against India, obliterating the three for 59 at Hyderabad on November 5, 2009.

Virat Kohli# Mahendra Singh Dhoni's [ Images ] first duck as captain is his sixth in ODIs. The said innings is his first duck against Australia.

# Michael Clarke [ Images ] and Cameron White were involved in a fourth wicket stand of 129 (unbroken) -- Australia's highest against India, outstripping the 123 between Michael Clarke and Andrew Symonds [ Images ] at Hyderabad on October 5, 2007.

# India recorded their third victory at this venue. Their first two wins being against Pakistan by 58 runs on April 5, 2005, and by seven wickets against Sri Lanka [ Images ] on February 17, 2007.

# India, under Dhoni's captaincy, have won 50 matches out of 88 played (Lost 31 and No Result 7) -- winning percentage 61.72.

# India (292 for five) posted their highest successful chase against Australia, bettering the 275 for four at Sharjah on April 24, 1998.

# Yuvraj Singh's [ Images ] 44th fifty (58 off 87 balls) in ODIs is his third against Australia in 34 matches.

# Yuvraj is averaging just 28.28 against Australia -- 905 in 32 innings, including two hundreds and three fifties.

# In 78 matches in India, Yuvraj has scored five centuries and 15 fifties.

# Yuvraj's batting average (25.44) and strike rate (65.61) in 2010 are below average.

# Virat Kohli [ Images ] (118 off 121 balls) has registered his highest innings in ODIs, outstripping the 107 against Sri Lanka at Kolkata [ Images ] on December 24, 2009.

# Kohli's first three-figure innings against Australia is his third in ODIs.

# Kohli has been adjudged the Man of the Match three times -- his first two were against West Indies [ Images ] and Bangladesh and Australia.

# Michael Clarke recorded his fifth century in ODIs – his second against India. He posted two centuries and three fifties in 16 games as captain.

# Clarke is the third Australian captain after Ricky Ponting [ Images ] and Mark Taylor to register a century against India on Indian soil.

# Clarke's magnificent knock is his highest as captain.  The said innings is also the highest by an Australian captain against India in India.

# Clarke and Hussey were involved in a stand of 144 – the highest partnership for the third wicket at the venue.