Overview
- The second ODI is scheduled for January 14 at Rajkot’s Niranjan Shah Stadium, where India can clinch the three-match series.
- Virat Kohli needs one run to become India’s top ODI scorer against New Zealand, having matched Sachin Tendulkar at 1,750 runs with Kohli achieving the mark in 34 matches to Tendulkar’s 42.
- Rohit Sharma requires two sixes to surpass Shahid Afridi’s record of 50 ODI sixes against New Zealand, entering the match with 49 in 32 games compared with Afridi’s 50 in 38.
- Rohit is 38 runs short of overtaking Jacques Kallis’s 11,579 ODI runs, a move that would lift him to eighth on the all-time list from his current 11,542.
- SportsTak reports that a 58-run outing would move Rohit past Virender Sehwag and Mohammad Azharuddin on the list of Indians with the most ODI runs against New Zealand.