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9th Match, India v New Zealand, Coca Cola Cup, Statistical Highlights
Rajneesh Gupta
August 3, 2001
- It was the 1743rd ODI in cricket history.
- It was India's 475th and New Zealand's 385th match and 61st between
these two sides. The record now reads : India 31, New Zealand
27,abandoned 3.
- Umpires LV Jayasundara and TH Wijewardene were officiating in their
seventh and sixth match respectively.
- The 138 run-partnership between Nathan Astle and Stephen Fleming was
New Zealand's best for the second wicket against India in all matches.
This obliterated the previous best of 130 between Bruce Edgar and
Martin Crowe at Brisbane on January 11,1986.
- The partnership was also New Zealand's second highest for the second
wicket in all matches after the 141 run-partnership between Matthew
Bell and Matthew Sinclair against Sri Lanka at Sharjah on April
17,2001.
- This was the 20th century partnership in which Astle was featuring.
His break-up of century stands : 6 for the first wicket, 7 for the
second wicket, 6 for the third and one for the fourth wicket. Astle
became the first New Zealander to get involved in 20 century
partnerships. Incidentally, the ODI record is in the name of India's
Sachin Tendulkar who has featured in 47 century partnerships.
- Nathan Astle (101) recorded his 11th ODI hundred - his fourth against
India. He has now scored maximum centuries for New Zealand against
India. Astle was previously level with Chris Cairns with three
centuries.
- Adam Parore was recording his third consecutive duck. He became the
fourth New Zealander to suffer this fate after Tony Blain (in 1986),
Danny Morrison (in 1990) and Richard DeGroen (in 1994). Parore is now
in line to equal the ODI record of four consecutive ducks, hitherto
shared by West Indian Gus Logie, Sri Lankan Pramodya Wickremasinghe,
Zimbabwean Henry Olonga and Englishman Craig White.
- This was also the second time Parore aggregated three ducks in a
series (or tournament). Parore had also recorded three ducks in the
five match series against Pakistan in 2000-01. Parore became the third
batsman to aggregate three ducks in a series on two occasions after
two Sri Lankans Romesh Kaluwitharana and Arjuna Ranatunga.
- Virender Shewag (100) reached his fifty off just 29 balls - the
fastest fifty for India against New Zealand. He bettered Kapil Dev and
Ajay Sharma's record by one ball. They had scored 54* at Sydney on
March 5,1985 and 52* at Indore on December 15,1988 respectively.
- Shewag needed only 69 balls to score his maiden ODI hundred. His hundred was the second fastest for India (after Mohammad Azharuddin's 62-ball hundred against New Zealand) and seventh fastest in all ODIs. The details :
Fastest hundreds in ODIs :
| Balls |
Batsman |
Opponents |
Venue |
Date |
|
37 |
Shahid Afridi (102) |
Pak v SL |
Nairobi Gym |
04-10-1996 |
|
45 |
BC Lara (117) |
WI v BD |
Dhaka |
09-10-1999 |
|
48 |
ST Jayasuriya (134) |
SL v Pak |
Singapore |
02-04-1996 |
|
62 |
M Azharuddin (108*) |
Ind v NZ |
Baroda |
17-12-1988 |
|
67 |
Basit Ali (127*) |
Pak v WI |
Sharjah |
05-11-1993 |
|
68 |
Ijaz Ahmed (139*) |
Pak v Ind |
Lahore |
02-10-1997 |
|
69 |
V Shewag (100) |
v NZ |
Colombo SSC |
02-08-2001 |
|
71 |
SR Tendulkar (124*) |
Ind v Zim |
Sharjah |
13-11-1998 |
|
72 |
Zaheer Abbas (118) |
Pak v Ind |
Multan |
17-12-1982 |
|
72 |
IVA Richards (149) |
WI v Ind |
Jamshedpur |
07-12-1983 |
|
72 |
ST Jayasuriya (108) |
SL v BD |
Colombo SSC |
22-07-1997 |
|
72 |
RL Powell (124) |
WI v Ind |
Singapore |
08-09-1999 |
|
73 |
Javed Miandad (119*) |
Pak v Ind |
Lahore |
31-12-1982 |
|
75 |
IVA Richards (110*) |
WI v Ind |
Rajkot |
05-01-1988 |
|
75 |
CL Cairns (115) |
NZ v Ind |
Christchurch |
19-01-1999 |
|
75 |
CD McMillan (104*) |
NZ v Pak |
Christchurch |
25-02-2001 |
- Shewag's innings included 20 shots to the fence - 19 fours and a six, giving him a whopping boundary percentage of 82.00 .A detailed study into all 554 ODI hundreds scored till date reveals the fact that Shewag's percentage is the fourth highest in the game. This is easily the best performance by an Indian. Sachin Tendulkar had scored 67.74 runs in boundaries during his unbeaten knock of 124* against Zimbabwe at Sharjah on November 13,1998. The following table has the details :
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Highest percentage of boundary shots : |
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(Minimum Qualification : 100 runs) |
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% |
Runs |
Batsman |
Countries |
Venue |
Date |
|
88.23 |
90/102 |
Shahid Afridi |
Pak v SL |
Nairobi Gym |
04-10-1996 |
|
82.08 |
110/134 |
ST Jayasuriya |
SL v Pak |
Singapore |
02-04-1996 |
|
82.05 |
96/117 |
BC Lara |
WI v BD |
Dhaka |
09-10-1999 |
|
82.00 |
82/100 |
V Shewag |
Ind v NZ |
Colombo SSC |
02-08-2001 |
|
75.43 |
86/114* |
Ijaz Ahmed |
Pak v SA |
Durban |
17-12-1994 |
|
74.00 |
74/100* |
RS Kaluwitharana |
SL v Ken |
Nairobi Gym |
28-09-1996 |
|
74.00 |
74/100 |
PA Wallace |
WI v SA |
Dhaka |
01-11-1998 |
|
72.26 |
86/119* |
IVA Richards |
WI v Eng |
Scarborough |
26-08-1976 |
- Saurav Ganguly (64) scored his 40th fifty (excluding 16 hundreds) in
his 173rd match. He became the third Indian after Mohammad Azharuddin
(58) and Sachin Tendulkar (53) and 18th batsman in the game's history
to reach this milestone. Incidentally Pakistan's Inzamam-ul-Haq,with
60 fifties, holds the ODI record.
- Shewag was winning his second Man of the Match award.
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