• Ajay Jadeja was captaining India for the ninth time in a ODI.

• Umpires BC Cooray and TH Wijewardane were officiating in their 40th and first match respectively.

• By taking two catches as substitute LR Shukla equalled Indian record of most catches by a fielder in a match as a substitute. Robin Singh had taken two catches as substitute in Kenya's innings at Bristol on 23-05-1999.

• Ricky Ponting, on 28, completed his 3000 runs in ODIs in his 87th match. He became ninth Australian and 55th bats- man in the world to do so.

• Gilchrist's innings is the highest by any Australian keeper against India. He bettered his own 68 that he made at Galle on 23-08-1999 (in the second match of Aiwa Cup). The following table lists highest individual scores by wicketkeepers against India :

  Score       Keeper	          For      Venue	        Date
  
  116       A.J.Stewart              Eng      Sharjah             11-12-1997
  96        A.C.Parore               NZ       Baroda              28-10-1994
  91        A.J.Stewart              Eng      Jaipur              18-01-1993
  78        A.Flower                 Zim      Colombo SSC         01-09-1996
  77        A.C.Gilchrist            Aus      Colombo SSC         28-08-1999
  69*       Moin Khan                Pak      Toronto             13-09-1998
  68*       A.Flower                 Zim      Leicester           19-05-1999
  68        A.C.Gilchrist	           Aus      Galle	        23-08-1999
  62        Salim Yousuf             Pak      Sharjah             27-04-1990
  62        A.Flower                 Zim      Harare              25-10-1992
  61        A.C.Gilchrist            Aus      Kochi               01-04-1998
  60        W.B.Phillips             Aus      Melbourne           03-03-1985
  56        A.Flower                 Zim      Indore              18-11-1993
  56        K.Otieno                 Ken      Bristol             23-05-1999
  55        A.Flower                 Zim      Harare              30-09-1998
  54        Moin Khan                Pak      Sharjah             13-04-1999
  53*       P.J.L.Dujon              WI       Berbice             29-03-1983
  53        R.S.Kaluwitharana        SL       Colombo RP          28-08-1996
  52        A.P.Gurusinha            SL       Mumbai Wankhede     17-01-1987
  51        Aamer Malik              Pak      Calcutta            28-10-1989
  51        A.C.Parore               NZ       Delhi               03-11-1994
  50        R.C.Russell              Eng      Nottingham          20-07-1990
  50        J.C.Adams                WI       Jaipur              11-11-1994
  50        Rashid Latif             Pak      Sharjah             15-04-1996
  50        S.K.L.de Silva           SL       Colombo SSC         24-08-1997
  
  

• Javagal Srinath, with two wickets in this match, has now taken 234 wickets in 172 matches, thus becoming the second highest wicket taker for India after Kapil Dev (253 wickets in 225 matches) and fourth in the world. Srinath moved ahead of Anil Kumble, who has 233 wickets from 177 matches to his name.

• Rahul Dravid kept wickets through out an innings for the third time in his career. He had earlier performed this role against West Indies at Port-of-Spain on 26-04-1997 and against Sri Lanka at Taunton on 26-05-1999. However it was first time that he effected a dismissals behind the stumps.

• Adam Gilchrist, when he caught Dravid, completed his 100 dismissals in ODIs in his 72nd match. He became third Australian after Ian Healy (234 dismissals in 168 matches) and Rodney Marsh (124 dismissals in 92 matches) and the 12th keeper in the world to do so.

• With this Gilchrist also completed the allround double of 2000 runs and 100 dismissals. He became first Australian to do so.

• The sixth wicket partnership of 123 runs between Sada- gopan Ramesh and Robin Singh is India's best for this wicket against Australia.This obliterates the previous record stand of 68 between Praveen Amre and Kapil Dev at Perth on 08-12-1991.

• This is also the second highest for India for this wicket against all countries. However the best still remains as 127 (between Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajay Sharma) against New Zealand at Baroda on 17-12-1988.

• This is also the highest for sixth wicket by any side on Sri Lankan soil eclipsing the 115 runs partnership between Aravinda de Silva and Roshan Mahanama for Sri Lanka against Australia at Colombo RPS on 30-08-1996. Incidentally India's previous highest sixth wicket stand on Sri Lankan soil was 52 between Mohammad Azharuddin and Kapil Dev against Sri- Lanka at Colombo RPS on 25-07-1993.

• Adam Gilchrist's allround performance (77 runs and 4 dismissals) makes him the only wicketkeeper to perform the allround feat of scoring 50 plus runs and effecting four dismissals in a match on two separate occasions. Gilchrist had made 52 and held four catches against England at Melbourne on 13-02-1999.

• Adam Gilchrist won the MoM award for the sixth time in his career.

Contributed by: Rajneesh Gupta (rgcricket@hotmail.com)