India Vs Australia, 3rd ODI: Virat Kohli and boys made these records in Indore

Indore, Sep 24: Maintaining their 100 percent win record at Holkar Stadium, Indian cricket team defeated Australia by five wickets in the third one-day international and took an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series on Sunday (September 24).

Chasing 294 for a win, Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane and Hardik Pandya struck brilliant fifties as India overhauled the target with 13 balls to spare in front of a packed stadium.

With this win, the Men In Blue reached the top of ICC ODI rankings with 120 rating points. Virat Kohli and his boys, who are already at the top of ICC Test rankings - displaced South Africa from the top.

Pandya who scored a fluent 78 almost saw the hosts' through after Rohit and Rahane gave them a flying start. Rohit (71) and Rahane (70) set the platform for the win with their 131-run partnership while Pandya steered the side to victory with his crucial knock, which came off 72 balls.

Australia opener Aaron Finch's fluent century went in vain due to self-destructive batting by the middle-order and lower middle-order in the last 10 overs.

Finch, playing his first game of the series, had placed Australia at a commanding 232 for two in 40 overs with his 124-run innings but they lost the plot after that. Ever since his departure in the 38th over, none of the visiting batsmen managed to maintain the momentum and ended up scoring just 59 in the last 10 overs.

India will now head to Bengaluru for the fourth ODI and hope to maintain their ruthless attitude at M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

Here are a few records made by Virat Kohli and his boys:

Rare 3-0 lead against Australia

This is the first occasion when India have registered three consecutive wins against Australia in a 5-ODI series.

Australia have earned this dubious distinction of going down 3-nil in an ODI series twice, before (Vs England in 2010 and Vs South Africa in 2015).

This is Australia's 11th consecutive defeat in away ODIs (completed matches).

Kohli equals Clive Lloyd/Viv Richards' record

This is the 30th win for Virat Kohli as a captain in his first 38 ODIs - joint second with West Indies skipper Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards.

Only former Australia captain Ricky Ponting had registered most wins (31) from as many games in the 50-over format than Kohli.

This is the six (the most) consecutive bilateral series wins for India.

Hardik Pandya gets second man of the match in three games

Hardik Pandya scored 78 runs and also picked up the crucial wicket of David Warner - giving India their first breakthrough.

Pandya played a fluent knock that was studded with four sixes and five fours.

The right-handed all-rounder almost saw the hosts through in the run chase.

Chahal - 3 Maxwell - 0

Yuzvendra Chahal got the better of Glenn Maxwell for the third consecutive time in the series. Maxwell was stumped by Dhoni after he was cleverly trapped in the wrist spinner's trap.

The Aussie batter was trapped by Maxwell in the first two ODIs as well as he attempted to dominate the leg-spinner.

India's unbeaten streak at Holkar Stadium

With this win Team India registered their fifth ODI win on this ground. They have won 3 matches batting first while 2 ODIs chasing.

They have also won the lone Test match played here, last year.

Team India maintain their 100 percent win record at Cuttack where they have won 6 ODIs - most successive ODI wins for India at a home venue.

'Ro-HIT Man Sharma' has hit most 6s against Australia

India opener Rohit Sharma smashed four sixes against Australia in this game. With this he has so far smashed 63* sixes against Australia - most by any batsman against them.

Brendon McCullum (61) is the second best.

Rohit Sharma has smashed 118* sixes since 2013, most by any batsman. AB de Villiers is the second best with 106 sixes in the same period.