Saurav Ganguly has become only the third Indian to carry his bat through a (completed) LOI innings. The previous instance occurred almost a decade ago when Ravi Shastri batted through the Indian innings against the same opponent - Sri Lanka, at the same ground VCA Ground, Nagpur.

There have been many instances of Indian openers batting through an innings, but the following table lists only those when India were batting first. When batting second, the only such remarkable instance was Sunil Gavaskar's 'famous' 36 not out against England in the 60 over innings of 1975 World Cup. Others are when India won without the stipulated number of overs being completed, and hence, would not qualify for this table.

Player          Runs  vs    Ground               Date
	     				
SM Gavaskar      76   WI    Sharjah              22.11.1985
RJ Shastri      101   SL    Nagpur               01.12.1990
SC Ganguly      130   SL    Nagpur               22.03.1999

Contributed by: Atul Kahate (AKahate@yahoo.com)