4 – South Africa’s 2023 ODI total of more than 380, of which three are from the ODI World Cup while these men’s ODI totals for a side are tied for the most 380-plus totals in a calendar year, with four such totals recorded in 2015.
4 – South Africa’s 2023 ODI total of more than 380, of which three are from the ODI World Cup. These men’s ODI totals for a side are tied for the most 380-plus totals in a calendar year, with four such totals recorded in 2015.
8 – ODIs won by South Africa in 2023 with a margin of 100-plus runs. Out of the 10 matches in which they batted first this year, South Africa won nine and lost only one. The only other team to have as many as eight victories by a margin of more than 100 runs was Pakistan in 1999; they batted first in 21 of those games.
7 – South Africa’s joint-longest run of consecutive 300-plus totals when batting first in One-Day Internationals. Australia in 2007 and England in 2019 both experienced a streak of seven games in which they scored 300 runs when batting first.
The highest score by a wicketkeeper in a men’s ODI World Cup match is 174, which Quinton de Kock scored against Bangladesh. Adam Gilchrist’s score of 149 against Sri Lanka in the 2007 tournament final stood as the previous high score.
1 – The number of individual World Cup men’s ODI scores higher than de Kock’s 174 for South Africa. The record, both overall and at World Cups, is still Gary Kirsten’s 188* against the UAE in 1996. Additionally, in a single World Cup edition, De Kock is the first player from South Africa to score three centuries.
3 – De Kock’s 150+ ODI scores are the highest of any wicketkeeper. His three 150-plus scores are also the second most for South Africa in the format, only surpassed by four by Hashim Amla.
10.58 – South Africa’s scoring rate in 2023 ODIs between the 41st and 50th overs. This year, in six of the nine innings in which they batted the full 50 overs, they have scored 100-plus runs in their last ten overs. Since 2002, this is the highest run rate for any team in a calendar year for at least 10 innings. In 2015, South Africa’s score of 9.80 was the second highest.
19-The number of sixes that South Africa’s batters hit against Bangladesh in an ODI innings is tied for most by any side against Bangladesh. In 2014, the West Indies also scored 19 sixes against Bangladesh.