It was 401st match for West Indies and 151st for Zimbabwe.It was the ninth meeting between these two sides. West Indies has
emerged winner on eight occasion, while Zimbabwe's solitary win came
in this match.The Royal and Sun Alliance County Ground in Bristol became 31st
ground to host a day/night One day international match, while
England became ninth country to host a day-night ODI encounter.The partnership of 68 runs between Chris Gayle and Wavell Hinds is
best for West Indies for second wicket against Zimbabwe. This
expunges the previous highest stand of 37 between Sherwin Campbell
and Brian Lara at Hyderabad (India) on 16-02-1996.Brian Lara scored his 40th ODI fifty in his 168th match (besides
13 centuries). Lara became fourth West Indian and 14th batsman in
ODIs to score 40 or more fifties in a career after Desmond Haynes
(57 in 238), Viv Richards (45 in 187) and Richie Richardson (44 in
224).
50s Batsman Mts Runs Hs Ave. 100s
58 M Azharuddin 334 9378 153* 36.92 7
57 Desmond Haynes 238 8648 152* 41.37 17
57 Aravinda de Silva 268 8334 145 35.61 11
54 Inzamam-ul-Haq 226 7364 137* 40.02 7
50 Javed Miandad 233 7381 119* 41.70 8
49 A Ranatunga 269 7454 131* 35.83 4
47 ME Waugh 217 7492 130 38.22 14
47 SR Tendulkar 249 9262 186* 42.10 25
47 Saleem Malik 283 7169 102 32.88 5
45 IVA Richards 187 6721 189* 47.00 11
46 DM Jones 164 6068 145 44.61 7
44 RB Richardson 224 6248 122 33.41 5
40 BC Lara 168 6377 169 42.51 13
40 SR Waugh 295 6713 120* 31.81 2
