It was the 314th ODI for England and 404th for West
Indies.
It was the 60th match between the two sides. The record
now reads : England 26, West Indies 31, abandoned 3.
The unbroken partnership of 171 runs for the first wicket
between Marcus Trescothick and Alec Stewart was England's
best for this wicket against West Indies in all matches. The
previous highest opening wicket stand for England against
West Indies was 165 run between Nick Knight and Alec
Stewart at Bridgetown on 29-03-1998.
The partnership was also the third highest for England in
all ODIs after 193 run pertnership between Graham Gooch and
Bill Athey against New Zealand at Manchester on 18-07-1986 and
185 run stand between Graham Gooch and Wayne Larkins against
Australia at Hyderabad (India) at 19-10-1989.
The partnership was also the second highest against West
Indies for the opening wicket after the 176 run stand between
Ajay Jadeja and Ravi Shastri for India at Cuttack on 09-11-1994.
The wicket of Jimmy Adams was the 50th for Alan Mullally in
his 38th match. He became the 10th Englishman and 121st bowler in all
ODIs to do so.
The victory was England's first by 10 wicket margin in a ODI.
England had won by nine wickets on three occasions.The details: v
India at Leeds on 02-06-1982, v Sri Lanka at Leeds on 20-06-1983 and v
Kenya at Canterbury on 18-05-1999.
It was the 14th occasion of a team registering 10 wicket win in
ODIs. The details :
India (120-0) beat East Africa (120) Leeds 11-06-1975
New Zealand (113-0) beat India (112-9) Melbourne 10-01-1981
West Indies (172-0) beat Zimbabwe (171) Birmingham 20-06-1983
India (97-0) beat Sri Lanka (96) Sharjah 08-04-1984
West Indies (117-0) beat New Zealand (116) Port of Spain 17-04-1985
Pakistan (66-0) beat New Zealand (64) Sharjah 15-04-1986
West Indies (192-0) beat New Zealand(191-9) Christchurch 29-03-1987
West Indies (221-0) beat Pakistan (220-2) Melbourne 23-02-1992 +
West Indies (154-0) beat South Africa (152) Port of Spain 11-04-1992
India (116-0) beat West Indies (121) Port of Spain 27-04-1997 #
West Indies (200-0) beat India (199-7) Barbados 03-05-1997
India (197-0) beat Zimbabwe (196-9) Sharjah 13-11-1998
South Africa (168-0) beat India (164) Sharjah 22-03-2000
England (171-0) beat West Indies(169-8) Chester-le-Street 15-07-2000
+ One batsman was retired hurt during the West Indian innings.
Marcus Trescothick won his maiden Man of the Match
award. He became 59th Englishman to win an award.