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8th Match, India v Sri Lanka, Coca Cola Cup, Statistical Highlights
Rajneesh Gupta - 3 August 2001
- It was the 1742nd ODI in cricket history.
- It was India s 474th and Sri Lanka s 362nd match- 69th between these
two sides, The record now reads : India 36, Sri Lanka 28,abandoned 5.
- Umpires Asoka de Silva and Gamini Silva were officiating in their 11th
and tenth match respectively.
- Virender Shewag suffered the ignominy of getting out to the first ball
of the match. He became the fourth Indian to suffer this fate after
Sunil Gavaskar (caught off New Zealander Richard Hadlee at Perth on
December 9,1980) , Ravi Shastri (lbw to Pakistan's Imran Khan at
Sharjah on March 22,1985) and Saurav Ganguly (bowled by Sri Lanka's
Chaminda Vaas at Mumbai on May 17,1997).
- Vaas became the second bowler to get a wicket off the first ball of
the match on three occasions. He had earlier dismissed Saurav Ganguly
(see above) and New Zealand's Chris Nevin (at Sharjah on April
17,2001) off the first ball of the match. The only other bowler to do
so on three separate occasions is Australia's Craig McDermott. However
it must be noted that McDermott took a wicket off his third ball
(first legitimate ball) on one occasion. The other bowlers to get a
wicket off the first ball of the match on more than one occasion are
West Indian Andy Roberts, Pakistan's Wasim Akram and New Zealand's
Chris Cairns with each performing this feat on two occasions.
- Saurav Ganguly was dismissed for a duck after facing 16 balls. He
missed the Indian record by just one ball. Eknath Solkar had taken 17
balls for his duck against England at the Oval on July 15, 1974.
Incidentally the ODI record is held by West Indian Phil Simmons (0 in
23 balls) against New Zealand at Margoa on October 26,1994. The
details :
Batsman |
Runs |
Balls |
For |
Vs |
Venue |
Date |
PV Simmons |
0 |
23 |
WI |
NZ |
Margoa |
26-10-1994 |
Athar Ali Khan |
0 |
22 |
BD |
Ind |
Mumbai WS |
25-05-1998 |
G Fowler |
0 |
21 |
Eng |
NZ |
Sydney |
20-01-1983 |
GF Labrooy |
0 |
20 |
SL |
Eng |
Delhi FSK |
15-10-1989 |
TBM Deleede |
0 |
19 |
Net |
Pak |
Lahore |
26-02-1996 |
AD Mullally |
0 |
19 |
Eng |
SL |
Dambulla |
23-03-2001 |
- With both Indian openers getting out without scoring, this provided
the fourth such instance for India. The other occasions being : Sunil
Gavaskar and Krish Srikkanth (v England,Ahmedabad,25-11-1981 and v
Zimbabwe,Tunbridge Wells,18-06-1983), Manoj Prabhakar and Sachin
Tendulkar (v WI,Mumbai WS,20-10-1994) and Mannava Prasad and Sadagopan
Ramesh (v WI,Toronto,12-09-1999).
- Dravid was dismissed stumped (off Jayasuriya) for only the second time
in his career. The only other occasion being v West Indies (off
Mahendera Nagamootoo at Bulawayo on June 30 this year.
- Yuvraj Singh (98*) became the 13th Indian to make a score in the
nineties. He also provided the 38th such instance for India. His
innings was the second highest by any Indian in the nineties after
Krish Srikkanth s 99 against England at Cuttack on December 27,1984
(Navjot Sidhu had also made 98 against West Indies at Sharjah on
October 19,1992).
- Romesh Kaluwitharana was getting dismissed without scoring for the
22nd time in his career and fifth time against India. He now enjoys
the dubious distinction of aggregating most ducks in a career against
India - five in 27 innings. Kalauwitharana was earlier level with four
ducks with Pakistan's Shahid Afridi.
- Kaluwitharana now has a duck frequency of 13.84 % of his total innings
- highest for any batsman who has played at least 100 innings at this
level. He bettered India's Javagal Srinath's record who has a duck
frequency of 13.73 %. The accompanying table lists the leaders in this
category of statistics :
Batsman |
% of inns |
0s |
For |
M |
Inn |
Runs |
NO |
Ave |
HS |
RS Kaluwitharana |
13.84 |
22 |
SL |
166 |
159 |
3308 |
12 |
22.5 |
102* |
J Srinath |
13.73 |
14 |
Ind |
192 |
102 |
830 |
31 |
11.69 |
53 |
Waqar Younis |
12.93 |
15 |
Pak |
215 |
116 |
829 |
40 |
10.91 |
37 |
A Kumble |
12.75 |
13 |
Ind |
208 |
102 |
716 |
34 |
10.53 |
26 |
AC Parore |
11.25 |
17 |
NZ |
168 |
151 |
3206 |
29 |
26.07 |
108 |
WPUJC Vaas |
11.11 |
12 |
SL |
165 |
108 |
1015 |
38 |
14.5 |
50* |
PV Simmons |
10.14 |
14 |
WI |
143 |
138 |
3675 |
11 |
28.94 |
122 |
Dharmasena, on 7,completed his 1000 runs in ODIs in his 115th match.
He became the 15th Sri Lankan and 148th batsman overall to do so. With
this, he also completed the coveted double of 1000 runs and 100
wickets. Dharmasena became the third Sri Lankan (Sanath Jayasuirya
6807 runs and 203 wickets in 241 matches and Chaminda Vaas 1015 runs
and 205 wickets in 165 matches being the others) and 25th allrounder
overall to do so.
Yuvraj won his second Man of the Match award.
© CricInfo
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