135 – Number of balls remaining with England chased the target against India in Brisbane, making it their largest victory against India in One Day Internationals in terms of balls remaining and also largest against a major team outside home.
Only Bangladesh and Netherlands have been beaten with more spare balls by England away from home.
Also, it was only second time that England beat India by nine or more wickets in an ODI. The previous instance was at Leeds in 1982.
35 – Number of fifty-plus scores for Ian Bell in One Day Internationals, the most by a batsman from England. Bell has three centuries and 32 fifties.
He trumped Kevin Pietersen, who had 34 fifty-plus scores (nine hundreds and 25 half-centuries). The 32-year-old Bell is also now just five runs away from becoming only the second English batsman - after Paul Collingwood – to make 5,000 ODI runs.
1153 – Number of runs Bell has scored against India, the most by an English batsman against India in One Day Internationals. Bell (1,153 runs at average 44.34 in 30 matches) went ahead of Pietersen, who in 28 ODIs had accumulated 1138 runs against India.
39 – Number of wickets James Anderson has taken against India, the most by a bowler from England against India. Anderson troubled the Indian top order as usual and finished with four wickets, taking his overall tally of Indian victims to 39 and in doing so also surpassing Andrew Flintoff (37 wickets against India). The third leading wicket-taker for England against India is Steven Finn (25 wickets).
1 – Number of times Steven Finn has taken a five-wicket haul in ODIs. The Brisbane ODI, in which he took 5-33, are the second best by an England bowler against India, behind only Ronnie Irani’s 5-26 at the Oval in 2002.
5 – Number of times Ajinkya Rahane has lost his wicket to Finn, the most he has been dismissed by any bowler in ODIs. No other bowler has dismissed him more than two times.
153 – The innings total of India, their lowest all out effort against England in ODIs. However, India’s lowest against England when using full resources remains 132-3 in 60 overs, the match famous for Sunil Gavaskar’s bizarre innings (36 off 174 balls with only one boundary at Lord’s in 1975) in the first-ever ICC Cricket World Cup match.
3 – Number of times England and India have contested in ODIs in Australia. The Brisbane ODI was only their third meeting and first since World Cup 1992 at the WACA, which England won by nine runs. Their first-ever encounter Down Under came at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1985, which saw India win by 86 runs. Last time England and India played at any neutral venue was in Durban in World Cup 2003.
2 – Number of overs bowled by Bhuvneshwar Kumar, the least he has bowled in an innings in his 44-match ODI career. He opened the bowling with Stuart Binny but was taken off after he conceded 12 runs in first over. He returned to bowl eighth over of the innings and wasn’t considered afterwards.
20 – Number of deliveries Anderson bowled before conceding the first run off bat. Although Anderson had conceded a wide before, it wasn’t until third ball of his fourth over that Indian batsmen managed to score a run against him. Anderson bowled 51 legitimate deliveries in the match and 42 of them, more than 80 per cent, were dots.
31 – Number of ODIs England had played without Stuart Broad and James Anderson together. Last time the duo featured in England’s playing XI was in the final of the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 against India at Edgbaston. Sandwiched between the Champions Trophy Final and Brisbane ODI last night, England played 31 ODIs, losing 19 and winning only 11 while one ended as no-result.
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