India-Bangladesh fans at Melbourne
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Melbourne: Match facts for Thursday's World Cup quarter-final between India and Bangladesh at the Melbourne Cricket Ground:
- Eight of the last completed 10 one-day internationals between these sides has been won by the chasing team. (Bangladesh Have 'Nothing to Lose' vs India )
- However, the most recent clash, at Dhaka in June 2014, saw India successfully defend a total of 105, bowling Bangladesh out for 58.
- Virat Kohli (506) needs 87 runs to pass Gautam Gambhir (592) as the leading run-scorer in ODIs between these teams.
- Kohli has reached 50 in five of his six innings against Bangladesh (three of which have been converted into centuries), averaging 126.5 with a strike rate of exactly 100.
- That average of 126.5 is the highest any player holds against an opponent, minimum 500 runs scored.
- All six of the ODIs between these teams at neutral venues have been won by the team that batted second.
- India have won five of these contests, Bangladesh's victory coming at the 2007 World Cup -- their only World Cup meeting.
- Since falling for a first ball duck in his first World Cup innings when batting second in 2007, MS Dhoni has hit 281 runs (two dismissals) in six knocks when chasing -- India have won all six games.
- No Bangladesh batsman hit a century in any of the team's first 28 matches at World Cups -- there have been two in the last two, both recorded by Mahmudullah.
- Since the start of the 2007 World Cup Dhoni has been dismissed once by bowlers in the Bangladesh squad, scoring 142 runs from 155 balls faced.
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