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3rd Match, India v Sri Lanka, Coca Cola Cup, Statistical Highlights
Rajneesh Gupta
July 23, 2001
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- It was the 1737th ODI in cricket history.
- It was India's 471st and Sri Lanka's 357th match- 67th between these
two sides. The record now reads : Sri Lanka 28, India 34 and abandoned
5.
- Umpires Peter Manuel and TH Wijewardene were officiating in their 33rd
and fourth match respectively.
- Amay Khurasiya was making a comeback into Indian side after about 22
months. He last appeared for India against West Indies at Singapore
(Kallang) on September 5,1999 , thus missing 59 matches in between.
Khurasiya became 14th Indian to have a gap of 50 or more matches in
between two consecutive appearances. Others to do so for India are
Ashish Kapoor (157 matches),Robin Singh (146), Harvinder Singh
(110),Saurav Ganguly (91), Harbhajan Singh (84), Arun Lal (74), Paras
Mhambrey (72), Rajesh Chauhan (71), WV Raman (71), Virender Shewag
(66),Anshuman Gaekwad (64), Maninder Singh (52) and Salil Ankola (51).
- Avishka Gunawardene (67) made his highest score against India. His
previous highest was 52 (off 55 balls) at Sharjah on November 6,1998.
- The eighth wicket partnership of 49 runs between Kumara Dharmasena and
Suresh Perera was Sri Lanka's best for this wicket against India. This
obliterated the previous highest of 39* between Arjuna Ranatunga and
Rumesh Ratnayake at Sharjah on April 25,1990.
- The partnership was also the highest for Sri Lanka for the eighth
wicket against any country in Sri Lanka. The previous highest was 40
run-partnership between Upul Chandana and Chamara Silva against
Australia at this same ground on August 26,1999.
- The partnership also bettered the 47 run unbroken stand between
Aravinda de Silva and Hasan Tillekeratne against England at Sydney on
February 3,1999 which was then the highest stand for Sri Lanka for
eighth wicket in all day-night matches.
- Saurav Ganguly has now aggregated 1199 runs in 39 day-night matches
under floodlights (i.e.batting second). He thus surpassed Mohammad
Azharuddin's tally of 1176 runs from 45 matches. Now only Sachin
Tendulkar (2058 runs from 45 matches) is ahead of Ganguly for India.
Incidentally Tendulkar's aggregate is record in ODIs.
- The defeat by six runs was India's joint second narrowest in a daynight encounter. It had lost to Sri Lanka at this same ground by 2 runs on August 17,1997 and to Australia by six runs at Sydney on January 20,1992. The following table lists India's narrowest defeats in daynight matches :
|
Margin |
Winner |
Score |
Loser |
Score |
Venue |
Date |
|
2 runs |
SL |
302-4 (50 overs) |
Ind |
300-7 (50 overs) |
Colombo RPS |
17-08-1997 |
|
6 runs |
Aus |
208-9 (50 overs) |
Ind |
202-7 (50 overs) |
Sydney |
20-01-1992 |
|
6 runs |
SL |
221-9 (50 overs) |
Ind |
215-7 (50 overs) |
Colombo RPS |
22-07-2001 |
|
7 runs |
Eng |
250 (49.5 overs) |
Ind |
243 (49.3 overs) |
Sharjah |
11-12-1997 |
|
8 runs |
SL |
204-7 (50 overs) |
Ind |
196 (49.2 overs) |
Colombo RPS |
12-08-1993 |
|
9 runs |
Eng |
236-9 (50 overs) |
Ind |
227 (49.2 overs) |
Perth |
22-02-1992 |
- Suresh Perera was winning his maiden Man of the Match award in his 13th match.
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