The third ODI of the ongoing three-match series between India and South Africa will be played at ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Saturday, December 6. Both the teams have won one match each, and the winner of Saturday’s fixture will take the series. After suffering a 1-2 defeat against Australia in the three-match ODI series in October and then going down by a margin of 0-2 against South Africa in a two-match Test series at home, the Indian team would like to avoid another series defeat. On the other hand, South Africans will be high on confidence after chasing down the target of 359 runs against India in the second ODI played at Raipur on December 3.
The series decider in Visakhapatnam is expected to be another high-scoring match.
The ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium hosted multiple matches of the ICC Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 in October, whereas the senior men’s team last played an ODI match at this venue on March 19, 2023, against Australia. In that fixture, however, the Men in Blue suffered a humiliating defeat by 10 wickets under Rohit Sharma’s leadership.
Ahead of the start of the third India-South Africa ODI, here’s a look at India’s ODI record in the 10 one-day matches played so far at Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium:
Result summary: 7 wins, 2 defeats and 1 tie in 10 ODIs.
Highest total: 387/5 in 50 overs against the West Indies on December 18, 2019.
Lowest total: 117/10 in 26 overs against Australia on March 19, 2023.
Biggest win (by runs): India beat New Zealand by 190 runs on October 29, 2016.
Biggest win (by wickets): India beat Sri Lanka by 8 wickets on December 17, 2017.
Smallest win (by runs): India beat Pakistan by 58 runs on April 5, 2005.
Smallest win (by wickets): India beat West Indies by 5 wickets (270-run target) on December 2, 2011.
Most runs: 587 runs in seven ODIs by Virat Kohli.
Highest score: 159 from 138 balls by Rohit Sharma against the West Indies on December 18, 2019.
Highest average (minimum 5 ODIs): 97.83 by Virat Kohli.
Highest strike rate (minimum 250 balls): 100.34 by Virat Kohli.
Most 100s: 3 centuries by Virat Kohli.
Most 50s: 2 half-centuries each by Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Shreyas Iyer and Yuvraj Singh.
Most ducks: 1 zero each by Mohammad Kaif, Mohammed Siraj, Manish Pandey, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni, Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli.
Most sixes: 11 maximums in seven ODIs by Rohit Sharma.
Most sixes in an innings: 5 sixes by Rohit Sharma during his 159-run knock against the West Indies on December 18, 2019.
Most wickets: 9 wickets in four ODIs by Kuldeep Yadav.
Best bowling figures: 5 for 18 in six overs by Amit Mishra against New Zealand on October 29, 2016.
Most five-wicket hauls: 1 fifer in one ODI by Amit Mishra.
Most dismissals: 10 (7 catches and 3 stumpings) by MS Dhoni.
Most catches: 3 catches each by Virat Kohli and Robin Uthappa.
Highest partnership: 227 runs for the first wicket between Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul against the West Indies on December 18, 2019.
Most matches: 7 ODIs each by Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni.
Most matches as captain: 3 ODIs by MS Dhoni.
Most wins as captain: 2 wins for MS Dhoni.
