Here is a look at the many records that were set during the India-Australia World Cup 2023 clash at Chepauk on October 8 (yesterday).
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The clash at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai was the 13th between India and Australia at the World Cup. The two teams already held the record for most matches between any pair of teams in World Cup history: they extended it by one more.
At second place, with 11 matches, are England and New Zealand; England and Sri Lanka; Australia and New Zealand; the West Indies and Pakistan; and New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
India have now won five matches (and lost eight) against Australia at the World Cup. They are one of four pairs of teams to have won at least five times against each other, along with England and Sri Lanka (6-5), Sri Lanka and New Zealand (6-5), and Australia and the West Indies (5-5).
This was only the second time India chased a total successfully against Australia at the World Cup, after the 2011 quarter-final at Ahmedabad. Their margins here – six wickets, 52 balls – are improvements on that match (five wickets, 14 balls).
Six India bowlers bowled, and each of them took at least one wicket for the first time at the World Cup history. Six Indians had taken wickets against Zimbabwe at Leicester in 1999, New Zealand at Centurion in 2003, and Ireland at Hamilton in 2015 as well, but some bowlers went wicketless as well.
Barring small chases, no Australian reached fifty while batting first in the World Cup for the first time since the Auckland match of 2015 against New Zealand.
India became 2-3 while chasing 200. They have never lost their first three wickets for so few runs in a men’s ODI. The were 4-3 against Zimbabwe at Adelaide in 2003/04 and against Australia at Sydney in 2018/19. However, the three wickets fell in the first 12 balls, two more than the 10 balls for which India had lost their first three wickets against the West Indies at Kingston in 2009.
No team has won a men’s ODI after losing their first three wickets for so few runs. The previous record, of 4-3, was held by India against Zimbabwe at Adelaide in 2003/04, and by Sri Lanka against Bangladesh at Mirpur in 2008/09.
No team has won after losing their first three wickets so early either. Where ball-by-ball data is available, the previous record was 14 balls: New Zealand, 13-3, went on to chase 201 against the West Indies at Queenstown in 2005/06.
Virat Kohli and KL Rahul added 165 for the fourth wicket, the highest partnership for any wicket for India against Australia at the World Cup. They eclipsed the 141 added by Ajay Jadeja and Robin Singh at the Oval in 1999.
Rahul’s 97 not out was the second-highest score by an Indian wicketkeeper at the World Cup, after Rahul Dravid’s 145 against Sri Lanka at Taunton in 1999.
Kohli’s 85 was his highest score in a chase in the World Cup, and, as astonishing as it may sound, his first fifty in a successful chase (the 66 against England at Edgbaston in 2019 had come in vain). Despite that, he averages 41.75 while batting second, and 48.75 in successful chases at the World Cup.
At the same time, Kohli now holds the record for most runs in successful ODI chases. He went past Sachin Tendulkar’s 5,490 runs to finish on 5,517 (average 88.98, strike rate 97).
Not quite a record: In two consecutive World Cup matches on home soil (the previous one being the 2011 final), India finished the game with a six, and their top scorer (Gautam Gambhir in 2011) finished on 97.
Also not quite a record: Geoff Marsh had made 110 on World Cup debut when India and Australia had met at Chepauk in the 1987 World Cup. In 2023, his son Mitchell fell for a duck and dropped Kohli.
