It was England's 312th and West Indies' 402nd ODI match.It was the 59th match between these two sides. The record now reads
: West Indies 31, England 25, no result 3.It was the 21st match between these two sides on English soil. The
record now reads : West Indies 9, England 11, no result 1.Umpire Ray Julian and Ken Palmer were officiating in their fourth
and 22nd match respectively. Mark Ealham was playing his 50th match. He became 19th Englishman
and 221st player in ODIs to do so. The country wise break-up of
player with 50 or more ODI appearances: 35 Australians, 31 New
Zealanders, 31 Pakistanis, 29 West Indians, 28 Indians, 22 Sri
Lankans, 19 Englishmen, 17 South Africans, 10 Zimbabweans. Kepler
Wessels is the only player to have made 50 appearances for two
countries Australia and South Africa. Chris Gayle held three catches in the field. He became third West
Indian after Richie Richardson (4 catches at Birmingham on
23-05-1991) and Joel Garner (3 catches at Perth on 03-01-1987) to
do so against England. The match provided the 49th instance of a match being abandoned due
to rain etc in ODI history. This tally, however, excludes the
matches washed out without a ball being bowled. The accompanying
table gives contry-wise break-up of all abandoned matches
in ODIs :
Country Mts vs
Aus Eng NZ Pak WI Ind SL Zim SA Ken
Ind 18 3 1 3 4 1 x 5 - 1 -
NZ 17 3 3 x 1 2 3 2 1 2 -
SL 14 2 - 2 2 1 5 x 1 1 -
Aus 12 x 1 3 2 1 3 2 - - -
Pak 10 2 1 1 x - 4 2 - - -
Eng 9 1 x 3 1 3 1 - - - -
WI 8 1 3 2 - x 1 1 - - -
SA 5 - - 2 - - 1 1 1 x -
Zim 4 - - 1 - - - 1 x 1 1
Ken 1 - - - - - - - 1 - x
Total 49 12 9 17 10 8 18 14 4 5 1
