Stats - Kohli with back-to-back tons again; SA ace record chase
Stats highlights from Raipur, where India racked up 358 for 5 against South Africa
Sampath Bandarupalli
03-Dec-2025 • 4 hrs ago
Virat Kohli walks back after making 102 • BCCI
358 for 5 India's total in the second ODI in Raipur, which is their second-highest total against South Africa, behind the 401 for 3 in Gwalior in 2010. India's 349 for 8 in Ranchi in the previous match is now their third-highest.
195 Partnership runs for the third wicket between Virat Kohli and Ruturaj Gaikwad. It is the highest partnership for any wicket for India against South Africa in men's ODIs, going a run ahead of the 194-run stand between Sachin Tendulkar and Dinesh Karthik for the second wicket in Gwalior in 2010.
It is also the highest third-wicket partnership by any pair against South Africa in ODIs, bettering the 189-run stand between Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane in Durban in 2018.
11 Instances of Kohli scoring back-to-back hundreds in ODI cricket, easily the most by any batter. AB de Villiers is next on the list with six instances of hundreds in back-to-back innings.
77 Balls Ruturaj needed to complete his hundred, the second-fastest for India in ODIs against South Africa, behind only Yusuf Pathan's 68-ball effort in Centurion in 2011. The previous quickest at home was off 80 balls by Sanjay Manjrekar in New Delhi in 1991.
7 ODI hundreds for Kohli against South Africa; two more than any other batter. He has scored four hundreds in his last five ODI innings at home against South Africa, including three in his previous three outings.
34 Venues where Kohli has scored an ODI hundred, with Raipur being the latest entry to that list. Tendulkar also scored ODI tons at 34 different venues.
17 Hundreds in List A cricket for Ruturaj before scoring his maiden ODI hundred on Wednesday, the most for a batter at the time of their maiden ODI ton. Matthew Hayden's maiden ODI hundred came in 2001 against India, after scoring 16 in List A. A total of 13 others have 17 or more List A hundreds without scoring one in ODIs to date.
33 Number of 150-plus stands featuring Kohli in ODIs, the most by any batter, going past Tendulkar, who was involved in 32 of them. Ruturaj was Kohli's 14th partner with whom he has shared a 150-plus stand in this format.
3 Instances of two batters scoring hundreds for India in a men's ODI against South Africa. Ravi Shastri and Manjrekar at New Delhi in 1991 and Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly at Johannesburg in 2001 were the previous instances.
Overall, this was the 44th instance where two Indian batters scored centuries in the same innings in men's ODIs, but the first since Kohli and Shreyas Iyer managed it against New Zealand at Wankhede in the 2023 World Cup.
359 Target that South Africa chased down in Raipur, which is the joint-highest successful target chase against India in ODIs. Australia also won chasing a target of 359 against India in Mohali in 2019.
It is also the joint-sixth highest successful target chase in ODI cricket and joint-second on Indian soil, only behind India's 360-run chase against Australia in 2013 in Jaipur.
3 Number of successful chases of 350-plus targets by South Africa in ODI cricket, including the top two highest chases ever. India and England also have three successful 350-plus chases in ODIs.
720 Runs scored by India and South Africa in Raipur, making it the highest aggregate for an ODI match between the two teams, going past the 681 runs they scored in the previous game in Ranchi.
The aggregate of 1401 runs in this series so far is the fourth-highest across the first two matches of a bilateral ODI series.
7 Fifty-plus scores for Matthew Breetzke in 11 ODI innings. These are the most fifty-plus scores for any batter in men's ODIs after 11 innings, alongside Sherfane Rutherford. Breetzke has 682 runs so far, the most in the first 11 ODI innings, going past Kevin Pietersen, who scored 668 runs.
2 Number of bilateral ODI series where both teams made 330-plus totals in the first two matches. India hosted the previous such series in 2017, when both India and England went past 350 in the first two matches.
4 Hundreds for Aiden Markram in ODI cricket; all have come since the start of 2023. Only Quinton de Kock (5) scored more centuries for South Africa in men's ODIs in this period. All four centuries by Markram have been brought up in less than 90 balls, and his hundred against India was his first in a chase.
Sampath Bandarupalli is a statistician at ESPNcricinfo