It was the 1736th ODI in cricket history
Rajneesh Gupta22-Jul-2001It was the 1736th ODI in cricket history.
It was India’s 470th and New Zealand’s 381st match – 59th betweenthese two sides. The record now reads : New Zealand 26, India 30,abandoned 3.
Umpires DN Pathirana and G Silva were officiating in their 11th andeighth match respectively.
Rahul Dravid was playing his 150th match. He became 56th playeroverall and tenth Indian to do so.
Zaheer Khan became second Indian after Debabis Mohanty to claim awicket off the first ball of the match when he trapped MatthewSinclair LBW. Mohanty had West Indian makeshift opener Ridley Jacobscaught by Nikhil Chopra at Singapore (Kallang) on September 5,1999. Inaddition there have been four instances of an Indian bowler capturinga wicket off the first ball of the opponent’s innings (second inningsof the match).
Nathan Astle (117) scored his tenth hundred in ODIs in his 135thmatch. The hundred was Astle’s third against India which equals thetally of Chris Cairns for New Zealand.
The hundred was fifth for Astle in his 51st floodlit matchonly oneless than all other Kiwi batsmen have scored in floodlit matches.Others with hundred in floodlit matches for New Zealand are StephenFleming (2), Matthew Sinclair (2), Chris Harris (1) and Chris Cairns(1).
Astle, on 26,completed his 2000 runs in `away’ matches for NewZealand. At the end of this match Astle has a tally of 2091 runs from77 matches. He became 62nd batsman in all and fifth New Zealanderafter Martin Crowe (2820 runs in 86 matches), John Wright (2752 in106),Stephen Fleming (2323 in 89) and Adam Parore (2032 in 90) to doso. Incidentally India’s Sachin Tendulkar with 6712 runs from 183appearances holds the record of aggregating most runs in a career in`away’ matches.
India’s total (127) was its second lowest in all matches against NewZealand after the 113 (in 44.2 overs) at Perth on January 18,1986.
India’s total was the joint sixth lowest total to include anindividual fifty (Laxman- 60). It was also the second lowest suchtotal for India. The accompanying table has the details :
Total (Overs)
Batsman (Score)
Countries
Venue
Date
101 (26.5)
HH Gibbs (59*)
SA v Pak
Sharjah
28-03-2000
117 (41.3)
Inzamam-ul-Haq (51*)
Pak v WI
Kingston
12-04-2000
123 (40.3)
NC Johnson (54)
Zim v Pak
The Oval
11-06-1999
125 (48.2)
IT Botham (60)
Eng v WI
Kingstown
04-02-1981
125 (45)
SC Ganguly (50)
Ind v Pak
Sharjah
16-04-1999
126 (37.2)
MA Taylor (50)
Aus v NZ
Wellington
24-03-1993
127 (27.2)
EH Mattis (62)
WI v Eng
Kingstown
04-02-1981
127 (31.3)
CJ Nevin (50)
NZ v Pak
Sharjah
15-04-2001
127 (40.1)
DI Gower (53)
Eng v NZ
Christchurch
26-02-1983
127 (41.1)
VVS Laxman (60)
Ind v NZ
Colombo RPS
20-07-2001Laxman’s 60 represented 47.24% of India’s total – the fourth maximum byany Indian batsman in a completed innings.The details :
Batsman
%
Score
Total
Vs
Venue
Date
AD Jadeja
48.78
100*
205
Aus
The Oval
04-06-1999
SC Ganguly
47.48
113
238
SL
Colombo RPS
20-08-1997
NS Sidhu
47.24
94
199
SL
Singapore
03-04-1996
VVS Laxman
47.24
60
127
NZ
Colombo RPS
20-07-2001
M Azharuddin
46.15
90
195
SA
Calcutta
24-11-1993
NS Sidhu
45.63
73
160
NZ
Napier
16-02-1995
SR Tendulkar
45.37
93
205
SL
Dhaka
01-06-2000
AD Jadeja
45.19
61
135
Pak
Jaipur
24-03-1999
Kapil Dev
45.08
87
193
WI
Nagpur
08-12-1987
DB Vengsarkar
44.00
77
175
Aus
Trivandrum
01-10-1984
M Prabhakar
43.88
86
196
SL
Colombo RPS
12-08-1993
M Amarnath
43.04
34*
79
Pak
Sialkot
13-10-1978
SM Gavaskar
40.65
63
155
Pak
Sharjah
17-11-1985
SR Tendulkar
40.43
93
230
Pak
Hobart
21-01-2000
SR Tendulkar
40.31
77
191
WI
Brisbane
11-01-1992
SC Ganguly
40.00
50
125
Pak
Sharjah
16-04-1999
Chris Harris by holding four catches equalled the record of mostcatches by a fielder in a match for New Zealand. Ken Rutherford hadtaken four catches also against India at Napier on February 16,1995.Harris also became 14th fielder in ODIs to take four catches in amatch as a fielder with South African Jonty Rhodes being alone inholding as many as five.
India suffered its third worst defeat against New Zealand in terms ofmargin of runs. New Zealand had beaten India by 108 runs at Dunedin onMarch 1,1990 and by 99 runs at Nagpur on November 26,1995.
Nathan Astle was winning his 17th Man of the Match award. He is nowonly three away of Martin Crowe’s New Zealand record of 20 MoM awards.