After a commanding performance in Mohali, Team India will aim to seal the three-match series when they enter the M Chinnaswamy Stadium for the third and final T20I against South Africa on Sunday.
With a washout in the first game in Dharamsala, both the teams were looking to take the upper hand and take an unassailable lead in the series in Mohali. However, it was Virat Kohli and Co who took command in Mohali and came out with a brilliant performance to secure a rather comfortable win.
But at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, which is known to be an ideal venue for the shortest format of the game, it has been a mixed affair for Virat Kohli and Co. The short boundaries and flat tracks at the venue will be a test for both the Indian and the South African bowlers.
Here’s a look at the records and numbers pertaining to the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru:
- Six matches have been contested at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru. India have played four T20Is at this venue, winning two and losing two.
- India's triumphs have been by one run in a World Twenty20 fixture vs Bangladesh on 23 March 2016. India's second victory at this venue was by 75 runs against England on 1 February 2017. The said win is at present the sixth biggest in terms of runs for India in T20Is.
- India's two losses at this venue have been by 5 wickets to Pakistan on 25 December 2012 and by 7 wickets to Australia on 27 February 2019.
- India's total of 202 for six vs England, thanks mainly to Suresh Raina's 63 and Mahendra Singh Dhoni's career-best 56, remains the highest total in T20Is at Bengaluru.
- Australia's 194 for three vs India on 27 February 2019 remains the highest successful chase in T20Is at Bengaluru.
- Australia's Glenn Maxwell is the only centurion in T20Is at this venue, scoring an unbeaten 113 off 55 balls against India on 27 February 2019. The said hundred was his second while chasing in T20Is.
- Virat Kohli's unbeaten 72 off 38 balls in the aforesaid match remains the highest individual score by an Indian batsman at this venue in T20Is.
- Yuzvendra Chahal's career-best figures of 6 for 25 vs England at Bengaluru on 1 February 2017 are the best by an Indian bowler in T20Is. His splendid figures are the third best overall in T20Is.
- In the Bengaluru T20I against England on 1 February 2017, Rishabh Pant, at 19 years 120 days, had become the youngest Indian player to appear in a T20I. The Indian record at present is held by Washington Sundar. He was 18 years 80 days when he had played against Sri Lanka at Mumbai on 24 December 2017.
- England lost eight wickets for eight runs (119 for two to 127 all out) vs India on 1 February 2017 - the second worst eight-wicket collapse in international cricket behind New Zealand's eight wickets for five runs (37 for two to 42 all out) in the Wellington Test against Australia at Wellington in March 1946.
(With inputs from IANS)
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