It was the 1733rd ODI in cricket history

Rajneesh Gupta05-Jul-2001It was the 1733rd ODI in cricket history.It was India’s 468th and West Indies’ 428th match.It was the 65th match between these two sides. The record nowreads : India 23, West Indies 40, tied one and abandoned one.Umpires KC Barbour and GR Evans were officiating in their eighthand 13th match respectively.Carl Hooper, on one, completed his 1000 runs in matches againstIndia. He was playing his 35th match and 33rd innings. Hooper alsobecame the third West Indian after Desmond Haynes (1357 runs in 36matches ) and Gordon Greenidge (1181 runs in 24 matches) and 16thbatsman overall to do so. Incidentally Pakistani Saeed Anwar with 1901runs from 49 matches holds the record of aggregating most runs in acareer against India.India conceded only five extras in West Indies’ innings – twowides and three no-balls. It was only the seventh occasion when Indianbowlers and fielders conceded five or less extras in opponents’ totalof 200 or more. The details :

Extras

3

India

v Pakistan (252-3)

Lahore

31-12-1982

4

India

v Australia (263-3)

Rajkot

07-10-1986

4

India

v Australia (235-7)

Melbourne

31-01-1986

4

India

v NewZealand (207-3

Sydney

05-03-1985

5

India

v England (250)

Sharjah

11-12-1997

5

India

v Australia (236-4)

Indore

06-10-1984

5

India

v West Indies (229-5)

Harare

04-07-2001

Tendulkar (122*) when reached 76,completed his 1000 runs against WestIndies. He became first Indian and ninth batsman overall to do so. Hewas playing his 28th match and innings. Tendulkar now holds the recordof completing 1000 runs in a career against West Indies in leastmatches and innings. The earlier record was held by Pakistani Inzamamul-Haq who took 33 matches and 32 innings for his 1000 runs.The hundred was Tendulkar’s 29th in ODIs and second against WestIndies. His only other hundred against West Indies was made at Jaipuron November 11,1994 when he scored 105 off 148 balls.Tendulkar’s innings was the highest score by an Indian against WestIndies-home or away. -bettering Navjot Sidhu’s 114* at Visakhapatnamon November 7,1994.Tendulkar’s innings was the highest for India on this ground. Theprevious highest was a paltry 70* also by Tendulkar against Zimbabwein the second league match of this series on June 27,2001.The hundred was Tendulkar’s second in Zimbabwe. The other being 127*against the hosts at Bulawayo QC on September 26,1998. Tendulkar hasnow become only the third batsman to score more than one hundred onZimbabwean soil. The others being Alistair Campbell in 42 matches andRoshan Mahanama in three matches.The hundred was Tendulkar’s 17th on foreign soil-yet another record !He was earlier at level with Pakistan’s Saeed Anwar with 16 hundreds.Tendulkar has now aggregated 6712 runs (ave.41.43) in 182 `away’matchesmaximum by any batsman in ODIs. He surpassed the aggregatesof two Pakistanis – Saeed Anwar (6685 in 186 matches) and Inzamam-ul-Haq (6647 in 209 matches) . The following table lists the leading runscorers in away matches in ODIs :

Runs

Batsman

For

Mts

Inns

NO

Ave

Hs

100

50

0

6712

SR Tendulkar

Ind

182

178

16

41.43

143

17

32

9

6685

Saeed Anwar

Pak

186

185

11

38.42

194

16

32

11

6647

Inzamam-ul-Haq

Pak

209

201

25

37.77

137*

5

49

12

6215

M Azharuddin

Ind

221

206

34

36.13

111*

4

42

6

6208

PA de Silva

SL

213

207

16

32.50

134

6

43

13

6075

DL Haynes

WI

189

188

17

35.53

138*

7

45

11

5916

IVA Richards

WI

154

141

20

48.89

189*

11

38

7

5548

A Ranatunga

SL

201

196

29

33.22

102*

2

35

16

5455

Salim Malik

Pak

218

202

26

30.99

102

3

35

15

5405

Javed Miandad

Pak

165

158

23

40.04

116*

4

39

8

5290

BC Lara

WI

146

144

12

40.08

169

9

34

10

The 133 run-partnership between Ganguly and Tendulkar was the secondhighest for India for the opening wicket against West Indies. The besthowever still remains the 176 run partnership between Ajay Jadeja andTendulkar at Cuttack on November 9,1994. Incidentally the previoushighest opening stand for India against West Indies in `away’ matcheswas unbroken 116 runs also between Ganguly and Tendulkar at Port-of-Spain on April 27,1997.Ganguly and Tendulkar also became the third pair to participate in twocentury partnerships for the opening wicket against West Indies afterAustralians Adam Gilchrist and Mark Waugh and Indians Ajay Jadeja andSachin Tendulkar.Tendulkar was getting involved in a century partnership for the 47thtime in his careera new world record. The break-up of Tendulkar’scentury partnerships- 20 for the first,11 for the second,10 for thethird,3 for the fourth and 3 for the fifth. The previous record ofmost century partnerships was on the name of West Indian DesmondHaynes who featured in 46 such partnerships. The following table liststhe batsmen who have been involved in most century stands

Batsman

Country

Total

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

6th

7th

8th

9th

10th

SR Tendulkar

India

47

20

11

10

3

3

–

–

–

–

–

DL Haynes

WestIndies

46

26

11

6

1

1

1

–

–

–

–

ME Waugh

Australia

40

14

11

9

4

1

1

–

–

–

–

SC Ganguly

India

37

16

12

5

2

­

1

1

–

–

–

PA DeSilva

SriLanka

35

–

3

22

5

2

2

1

–

–

–

M Azharuddin

India

34

–

5

18

9

1

1

–

–

–

–

IVA Richards

WestIndies

32

–

9

17

3

2

–

–

–

–

1

Inzamam-ul-Haq

Pakistan

30

1

7

5

13

4

–

–

–

–

–

Tendulkar was winning his 41st Man of the Match award. This was alsohis sixth award against West Indiesmaximum by any player. He waspreviously at level with Pakistan’s Imran Khan with five awards.