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- It was the 1730th ODI in cricket history.
- It was India’s 466th and Zimbabwe’s 186th match.
- It was the 36th match between these two sides. The record now reads :India 28,Zimbabwe 6,tied two.
- It was the seventh match between these two sides in Zimbabwe. Therecord now reads : India 5, Zimbabwe 2.
- Umpires MA Esat and Jeff Fenwick were officiating in their fifth andthird match respectively.
- Guy Whittall, playing in his 133rd match, became eighth player tocaptain Zimbabwe in a One-Day International match. Only Grant Flowerhas captained Zimbabwe after playing in more matches than Whittall.Surprisingly Zimbabwe has now used three captains in three matches ofthis tournament. Grant Flower was the in charge in the opening matchagainst West Indies on June 23 and Heath Streak took upon the burdenin the match against India on June 24.
- Guy Whittall became second Zimbabwean to score a fifty on captaincydebut after Duncan Fletcher who made 69* against Australia atNottingham on June 9,1983. Whittall also became 26th player in all toscore a 50 plus score on captaincy debut. Of these four went on toreach three figure mark. They are New Zealander Glenn Turner (171* vEast Africa at Birmingham on June 7,1975), West Indian RichieRichardson (106* v Pakistan at Sharjah on October 7,1991) ,India’sSachin Tendulkar (110 v Sri Lanka at Colombo RPS on August 8,1996) andSri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya (102 v Zimbabwe at Colombo SSC onJanuary 6,1998).
- Zaheer Khan (4-42) recorded the best figures by an Indian onZimbabwean soil. The previous best was the 3-36 by Ajit Agarkar in thelast match.This also equaled Zaheer’s best performance. He hadreturned identical figures against Zimbabwe at Sharjah on October26,2000.
- Saurav Ganguly when on 32,completed his 1000 runs against Zimbabwe. Hewas playing his 24th match match against Zimbabwe. Ganguly became onlythe second batsman in all ODIs to reach this landmark. The only otherbeing teammate Sachin Tendulkar. The following table lists leading runscorers in ODIs against Zimbabwe :
Batsman | Runs | For | M | Inn | NO | Ave | HS | 100 | 50 | 0 |
SR Tendulkar | 1242 | Ind | 30 | 29 | 5 | 51.75 | 146 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
SC Ganguly | 1053 | Ind | 24 | 24 | 3 | 50.14 | 144 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
NJ Astle | 826 | NZ | 20 | 20 | 2 | 45.89 | 120 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
PA de Silva | 772 | SL | 15 | 15 | 3 | 64.33 | 127* | 2 | 5 | 0 |
ME Waugh | 704 | Aus | 13 | 12 | 5 | 100.57 | 106 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
ST Jayasuriya | 660 | SL | 21 | 21 | 0 | 31.43 | 102 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
AD Jadeja | 656 | Ind | 19 | 18 | 8 | 65.60 | 116* | 1 | 4 | 2 |
RS Mahanama | 635 | SL | 14 | 12 | 1 | 57.73 | 119* | 2 | 4 | 0 |
RT Ponting | 626 | Aus | 12 | 12 | 2 | 62.60 | 145 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
Inzamam-ul-Haq | 619 | Pak | 17 | 17 | 3 | 44.21 | 116* | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Saeed Anwar | 599 | Pak | 13 | 13 | 2 | 54.45 | 103* | 2 | 3 | 1 |
SP Fleming | 581 | NZ | 20 | 19 | 4 | 38.73 | 96 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
MS Atapattu | 511 | SL | 15 | 14 | 1 | 39.31 | 90 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
- Grant Flower (4-44) was capturing four wickets for the second time inhis career. He had taken four for 32 against Kenya at Dhaka on March23,1999.
- Grant Flower’s performance in the match (45 runs,4 wickets and twocatches) was one among the best allround performances for Zimbabwe.The details :
Player | Batting | Bowling | Fielding | Opponents | Venue | Date |
DAG Fletcher | 69* | 4-42 | 0 | Aus | Nottingham | 09-06-1983 |
GJ Crocker | 50 | 4-26 | 0 | Ind | Harare | 25-10-1992 |
NC Johnson | 59 | 4-42 | 0 | Ken | Taunton | 15-05-1999 |
GJ Whittall | 30 | 4-35 | 0 | SL | Bulawayo Q.C. | 12-12-1999 |
HH Streak | 45 | 4-8 | 0 | WI | Sydney | 23-01-2001 |
GW Flower | 45 | 4-44 | 2 | Ind | Bulawayo Q.C. | 27-06-2001 |
- Rahul Dravid was winning his sixth Man of the Match award.
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