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Sangakkara goes past Jayasuriya

Stats highlights from the fourth ODI between New Zealand and Sri Lanka in Nelson

Shiva Jayaraman
20-Jan-2015
Kumar Sangakkara is the third-highest run getter in ODIs  •  Getty Images

Kumar Sangakkara is the third-highest run getter in ODIs  •  Getty Images

15 Runs Kumar Sangakkara needed before this game to pass Sanath Jayasuriya and become the third-highest run scorer in ODIs. Sangakkara scored 74 and is now only 215 runs short of going past Ricky Ponting, who is second in this list. Sangakkara's 74 was his 112th fifty-plus score in ODIs, as many as Ponting had in his ODI career. Only Sachin Tendulkar, with 145 such scores, is ahead of them.
68.30 Kane Williamson's batting average in ODIs since 2014 - the second highest among batsmen with at least 500 runs. Williamson has hit 50-plus scores in nine of the 14 innings he's played during this period. Only AB de Villiers has averaged more during this period.
3 Centuries Kane Williamson has hit in ODIs batting at No. 3 - the most by any New Zealand batsman. Nathan Astle and Ross Taylor have two each. No other New Zealand no. 3 has more than one hundred.
9 Number of times a team has chased a target of 275 or more to win an ODI in New Zealand, including this match. The odds were against New Zealand when they began their chase, with teams setting targets of 275-plus winning 35 of the 45 contests.
39 Number of innings since Angelo Mathews got out for a duck in ODIs - also against New Zealand, in 2013. Until that innings Mathews had ten ducks in 108 innings in ODIs - an average of almost one duck in 11 innings.
192 Runs Mahela Jayawardene had scored in ODIs in New Zealand in 13 innings before this tour. In three innings on this tour, he has more than doubled his tally in New Zealand, scoring 225 runs at an average of 75.
48 Number of ducks by Sri Lanka captains in ODIs - including the one by Mathews in this match. Sri Lanka have now gone past England as the team whose captains have got out for most ducks in ODIs.

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