4th Match, India v West Indies, Coca Cola Cup, Statistical Highlights

It was the 1731st ODI in cricket history

01-Jul-2001

It was the 1731st ODI in cricket history.

It was India's 467th and West Indies' 426th match.

It was the 64th match between these two sides. The record now reads :India 22,West Indies 40,tied one and abandoned one.

Umpires C Coventry and QJ Goosen were officiating in their third and eighth match respectively.

Harvinder Singh was making a comeback into Indian side after more than two years. He had last appeared for India against Australia at Sharjah on April 22,1998 thus missing 110 matches in between. Only Ashish Kapoor (157) and Robin Singh (146) have missed more matches in between two consecutive appearances for India than Harvinder. Harvinder's new ball partner Debasis Mohanty was also making a comeback into Indian side after missing 35 matches.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul was playing his 100th match. He became 17th West Indian and 113th player overall to do so.

Mohanty, at the end of this match, has a tally of 50 wickets from 35 games in `away' matches with an average of 25.18 and strike rate of 30.92 . Interestingly he has taken only 6 wickets in 7 matches at home soil with an average of 49.00 and strike rate of 55.00 !!

Mohanty thus became the 11th Indian to aggregate 50 wickets in a career in `away' matches. Only Manoj Prabhakar (33) and Ajit Agarkar (33) have completed 50 wickets on foreign soil in lesser matches than Mohanty. However Mohanty now holds the Indian record of being the fastest to capture 50 wickets on foreign soil (1546 till the end of this match) The previous record for India was held by Manoj Prabhakar who had bowled 1700 balls for his 50 wickets. The table `A' gives details of Indian bowlers with most wickets in `away' matches , while table `B' lists Indian bowlers in terms of ball required. Table `A' : Most `away' wickets by Indian Bowlers

Wkts	Bowler	M	Balls	Runs	Ave	Best	SR	RpO	5W
171	J Srinath	124	6529	4844	28.33	5/23	38.18	4.45	1
168	A Kumble	137	7235	5024	29.90	5/33	43.07	4.17	1
153	N Kapil Dev	140	7137	4228	27.63	5/43	46.65	3.55	1
129	BKV Prasad	113	5718	4395	34.07	5/27	44.33	4.61	1
92	M Prabhakar	65	3244	2209	24.01	4/25	35.26	4.09	0
77	RJ Shastri	93	4281	2875	37.34	5/15	55.60	4.03	1
70	AB Agarkar	49	2648	2250	32.14	4/35	37.83	5.10	0
59	RMH Binny	50	2233	1560	26.44	4/29	37.85	4.19	0
52	SR Tendulkar	181	3510	2863	55.06	4/34	67.50	4.89	0
51	S Madan Lal	39	1946	1220	23.92	4/20	38.16	3.76	0
50	DS Mohanty	35	1546	1259	25.18	4/56	30.92	4.89	0

Table ?B? : 50 ?away? wickets in least balls by Indian Bowlers

Bowler	Mts	Balls	Runs	Ave	SR	RpO	Vs	Venue	Date
DS Mohanty	35	1546	1259	25.18	30.92	4.89	WI	Bulawayo	30-06-2001
M Prabhakar	33	1700	1077	21.54	34.00	3.80	WI	Melbourne	16-01-1992
AB Agarkar	33	1757	1538	30.76	35.14	5.25	Pak	Sharjah	23-03-2000
RMH Binny	40	1774	1255	25.10	35.48	4.24	NZ	Adelaide	25-01-1986
S Madan Lal	38	1892	1195	23.90	37.84	3.79	WI	Sharjah	30-11-1986
J Srinath	38	1963	1406	28.12	39.26	4.30	Pak	Sharjah	22-04-1994
BKV Prasad	40	2025	1605	32.10	40.50	4.76	Pak	Colombo SSC	20-07-1997
N Kapil Dev	41	2240	1336	26.20	43.92	3.58	Pak	Melbourne	10-03-1985
A Kumble	42	2262	1463	28.69	44.35	3.88	Pak	Sharjah	15-04-1996
RJ Shastri	52	2494	1560	30.59	48.90	3.75	SL	Sharjah	25-03-1988
SR Tendulkar	173	3336	2716	54.32	66.72	4.88	NZ	Nairobi Gym	15-10-2000

Just for the record, Pakistan's Shoaib Akhtar has taken 50 `away' wickets in least balls ?1283 to be exact. Shoaib also shares the record of being the fastest with West Indian Andy Roberts in terms of least matches. Both Shoaib and Roberts captured their 50th wicket in 27th match.

Mohanty's figures of 10-1-18-3 (RpO 1.80) equalled the most economical figures by an Indian medium pace bowler in a ten over spell against West Indies. He equalled India's Kapil Dev's figures of 10-3-18-2 in the Hero Cup final at Calcutta on November 27,1993.

Ridley Jacobs (53* and three dismissals) was performing the allround feat of scoring 50 runs and effecting three dismissals in the same match for the third time in his career. The other such occasions for him came against New Zealand. Jacobs made 80* and held 5 catches at Southampton on May 24,1999.He followed it up with 65 runs and three catches at Auckland on January 2,2000.

Sachin Tendulkar won his 40th Man of the Match award in 271st match. This was also his fifth award against West Indies which equals Pakistan's Imran Khan's record of most award against West Indies.

West Indies India West Indies vs India Coca-Cola Cup (Zimbabwe)West Indies tour of Zimbabwe Queens Sports Club