Although the South Africans were aiming for a series whitewash over India, the last One Day International ended as a no result after the Proteas. The Proteas had set India a target of 302 runs to win. Unfortunately a storm and persistent rain halted everything. After the interval, not a single ball was bowled by the Proteas.
Besides the match not ending the way we'd hoped, the Proteas made sure they re-arranged the rankings. On a sad note though, the Proteas remain 5th on the rankings despite winning the series 2-0.
Let's squeeze Ishant Sharma in here somewhere. Sharma claimed his 100th ODI wicket from 70 matches with best figures of 4-38.
Quinton de Kock scored his 4th century, making it his 3rd against India. His top 4 highest scores, all centuries, came in his last two ODI Series against Pakistan and India. That was also de Kock's 3rd consecutive century and he joined AB de Villiers, Herschelle Gibbs as the 3rd South African to score 3 consecutive centuries.
In ODIs after 16 matches, de Kock leap frogged his fellow South African batsmen to first place with 741 runs.
At the end of it all he was Man of the Series and moved 61 places to number 14 in the ODI rankings.
AB de Villiers scored his 16th ODI century, his 3rd against India. De Villiers knocked Virat Kohli for the No. 1 spot in the ODI rankings. He became the third South African to top both the ICC test and ODI batting rankings in the latest list released on Thursday.
Dale Steyn also moved up the bowling rankings. He moved up to 2nd place in the ODI rankings, with Lonwabo Tsotsobe in 8th place and Morne Morkel 9th.
Ryan McLaren entered into the top 20 of the bowlers rankings. He is also South Africa's leading wicket-taker in 2013 with 45 dismissals.
