It was the 1586th ODI in cricket history. It was the 21st match between these two sides. The record now
reads: Pakistan 18, Zimbabwe 2, tied 1. It was Pakistan's 463rd match. The record now reads: won 237,
lost 207, tied 6 and abandoned 10 It was Zimbabwe's 149th match. The record now reads: won 38,
lost 103, tied 4 and abandoned 4. Umpires Billy Doctrove and Eddie Nicholls were officiating in
their sixth and 20th match respectively. Brian Murphy was making his ODI debut. He became 58th player to
represent Zimbabwe in ODIs since 1983. Imran Nazir became first Pakistani and sixth fielder to hold
three catches in a match against Zimbabwe. Others to do so are two
Australians Allan Border (at Hobart on 14-03-1992) and Mark Waugh (at
Bulawayo on 21-10-1999), two Sri Lankans Roshan Mahanama (at Sharjah
on 08-04-1997) and Upul Chandana (at Bulawayo on 12-12-1999) and one
Englishman Graeme Hick (at Bulawayo on 18-02-2000). The previous record of most catches by a Pakistani fielder
against Zimbabwe was jointly held by Wasim Akram (twice), Yousuf
Youhana and Shahid Afridi. Shahid Afridi made his 15th fifty plus score in his 106th
match. Interestingly Afridi has a strike rate of less than 100 on just
one occasion (he took 54 balls for his 53 against WestIndies at Sydney
on 18-01-1997). In all Afridi has scored 1018 runs in these 15 matches
off only 812 balls - a strike rate of 125.36! Moin Khan's innings (25*) was the highest by a wicketkeeper
captain against Zimbabwe in all matches. The previous highest was
England's Alec Stewart's 12 at Nottingham on 25-05-1999. Moin's innings was the second highest by a Pakistani wicketkeeper
captain in all matches. The best, however still remains in the name of
Rashid Latif who scored 36 against Sri Lanka at Paarl on
09-04-1998. Just for the record, New Zealand's Lee Germon holds the
ODI record of playing highest individual innings as a wicketkeeper
captain. Germon made 89 against Australia in Wills World Cup quarter
final at Chennai on 11-03-1996. Moin has now scored 220 runs in 12 matches against Zimbabwe,
which takes him past Kenya's Kennedy Otieno's tally of 218 runs (from
9 matches). Now only Sri Lanka's Romesh Kaluwitharana with 252 runs in
16 matches is ahead of Moin as the leading run scorer wicketkeeper
against Zimbabwe Shahid Afridi won Man of the Match for the sixth time in his
career. 