Overview
- Virat Kohli needs a single run to surpass Sachin Tendulkar as India’s leading ODI run-scorer against New Zealand.
- A half-century would give Kohli six consecutive fifty-plus ODI innings, a first for an Indian batter, after five on the bounce.
- Rohit Sharma is two sixes away from breaking Shahid Afridi’s mark of 50 ODI sixes versus New Zealand, having struck 49 in 32 games.
- Rohit is 38 runs short of overtaking Jacques Kallis for eighth on the all-time ODI runs list.
- The second ODI is on January 14 in Rajkot, four days after India’s series-opening win in Vadodara where Kohli also became the fastest to 28,000 international runs.