India made their 3rd clean sweep in the 4 or more matches series. Earlier, they beat NZ 4-0 at home in 1988-89 and England 5-0 in 2008-09. 56* Is the highest score of Parthiv.

3 India made their 3rd clean sweep in the 4 or more matches series. Earlier, they beat NZ 4-0 at home in 1988-89 and England 5-0 in 2008-09.

56* Is the highest score of Parthiv Patel in his 16th match. His previous best 53 in the previous match. Now he has scores 2 successive half centuries v the Kiwis.

329 Number of runs scored by Gautam Gambhir at an avg of 109.66 with 2 tons. Most by any batsman from the both sides.

8 Gautam Gambhir failed to open his account . It was his 8th duck in 105 matches. The first v Kiwis in 10 matches.

11 Number of wickets claimed by Ravichandran Ashwin at an avg of 21.90. Most by any bowler of both the sides.

187 Number of runs scored by James Franklin Maximum by any Kiwi player in this series. He remained not out throughout the series.

3 Number of times Martin Guptill failed to open his account in 38 matches. It was his 2nd duck v India in 13 matches.

4 Grant Elliott failed to open his account. It was his 4th duck in his 37th match, the Ist v India in 10 matches.

23 Is the highest score of Jamie How v India. His previous best was 9 in Guwahati on Nov 28, 2010.

103 Is the lowest score made by any team at this venue. The previous lowest was in the name of Zimbabwe who scored 139 in 42.4 overs v Australia on Oct 13, 1987.

3/24 Is the best bowling figures of Ravichandaran Ashwin in his 7th match. His previous best was 3/50 also against the New Zealand in Guwahati on Nov 28, 2010.

Stats Complied by Manoj Kumar

India’s 5 win white-wash is just its second in a five match series. The first such instance was not so long back, against England in 2008-09. Gautam Gambhir with this clean...

India’s 5 win white-wash is just its second in a five match series. The first such instance was not so long back, against England in 2008-09.

Gautam Gambhir with this clean sweep of the series has now won five consecutive matches as the Indian skipper.

New Zealand has now lost 12 of their last 11 one-dayers including ten in a row, all in the sub-continent.

In the previous match, Yousuf Pathan’s century had set a trend of an Indian batsman scoring a century in this series to 3 matches in a row, now. In this match, Team India was required to score just over 100 runs to wrap up the series.

Martin Guptil’s duck was already the third of his career spanning just 37 innings so far and already his second against India. Both his ducks against India have been in 2010.

New Zealand’s 103 is the lowest ever team score in an one-dayer in Chepauk.

Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli had kind of set of trend of both either scoring heavily together or both failing to score together in the last 4 matches of this series. In this match, both Kohli (2) and Gambhir (0) missed out on scoring as they did in the earlier match. Both Gambhir and Kohli registered hundreds and fifties in matches 2 and 3 of this series.

Parthiv Patel, who scored his first limited overs fifty in the previous match made it two in a row with an unbeaten 56 in this match.

James Franklin, who hit the maximum sixes for New Zealand in the fourth one-dayer, also scored the lone sixer for New Zealand in this match. He was unbeaten on both the matches.

New Zealand scored less than one-third of the total team runs (103) in comparison to their team total in the fourth one-dayer ( 315).

Ashish Nehra claimed his 150th ODI wicket(Victim – Brendon McCullum).

Yuvraj Singh had an interesting tournament:
a. In the first match he claimed three wickets.
b. In the third match he claimed three catches and didn’t bowl.
c. Claimed two wickets and scored an unbeaten 42 in this match.
d. Completed the series with 120 runs and 5 wickets and 6 catches with a batting average of 60 and bowling average of 23.4

Ravichandra Ashwin’s 3 wickets in the match catapulted his overall wickets tally in this series to 11, the maximum by any bowler in this series.

Daniel Vettori’s wicket of Virat Kohli was just his second in this series in which he played four matches.

Stats Compiled by Sharath Murali

The Highest individual score by Virendar Sehwag (India) 319 against South Africa in MA Chidambaram Cricket Stadium in Chennai on March 26, 2008...

The first match of the three Test series between India and South Africa will be played in Centurion on Dec 16.

This is India's 5th visit in South Africa. Till date they have played 12 Tests in South Africa winning 1 and losing 6.

The remaining 5 matches ended in a tame draw. Following are some of the statistical highlights :

Results in the last 10 Tests

Both teams have won 4 matches each