It has never been seen before in the history of One Day International cricket, when four batsmen of a team have five double centuries and 79 centuries in their account. India won the first ODI of the three-match series against New Zealand by 12 runs. Anyone would be surprised to hear the ODI stats of the top four batsmen of Team India at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. Double centuries have been scored only 10 times in ODIs, out of which the batsmen who did this feat five times were present in the top-4 of Team India. Rohit Sharma thrice, while Ishaan Kishan and Shubman Gill have done so once each. At the same time, Virat Kohli, who plays number-3, has 46 ODI centuries in his name. Rohit Sharma has scored 29 ODI centuries and Shubman Gill has scored three centuries in ODIs.

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Together these four have 79 centuries, while there are five double centuries. Shubman Gill scored 208 runs against New Zealand. The world record of double century in ODI International at the youngest age has now been registered in the name of Gill. Gill did this feat at the age of just 23. India scored 349 runs for eight wickets in 50 overs. In response, the Kiwi team was reduced to 337 runs in 49.2 overs.

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Michael Bracewell played an inning of 140 runs for New Zealand. Bracewell played this innings in 78 balls, which included 12 fours and 10 sixes. New Zealand had lost six wickets for 131 runs and it seemed that Team India would easily win the match, but after that Bracewell, along with Mitchell Santner, brought the Kiwi team back into the match. Santner scored 57 runs. Mohammad Siraj took the most wickets from India. Siraj took four wickets for 46 runs in 10 overs.