Cricket World Cup: Windies vs India – five match facts
PERTH, Australia — Here are five match facts for Friday’s (today, Jamaica time) World Cup Pool B clash between India and West Indies at the WACA in Perth:
This will be the eighth World Cup meeting between these two sides, West Indies need to win this encounter in order for the record to be even between them (India – W4, L3).
The two teams have met just once before in Perth with that game ending tied as both teams were bowled out for 126 back in 1991; it is the only game between India and West Indies that has ended as a tie.
Just two Indian players have an average over 50, Virat Kohli (52.17) and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (51.41). They are two of just seven players from any nation to play 10+ innings to achieve the feat.
Chris Gayle has hit 17 sixes in this tournament already; he needs to hit two more to overtake Matthew Hayden (18 in 2007) for most sixes in a World Cup.
Gayle has hit 22 one-day international centuries — only four players from any nation have scored more.
