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1st Match, Coca Cola Cup, New Zealand v Sri Lanka, Statistical Highlights

It was the 1735th ODI in cricket history

Rajneesh Gupta
19-Jul-2001
  • It was the 1735th ODI in cricket history.
  • It was New Zealand's 380th and Sri Lanka's 356th match- 48th between these two sides. The record now reads : Sri Lanka 19, New Zealand 26,tied one and abandoned 2.
  • It was the 100th match on Sri Lankan soil. Sri Lanka became country after Australia (386), India (219) ,England (202), United Arab Emirates (174), New Zealand (161), Pakistan (132) and South Africa (105) to host 100 or more ODI matches.
  • Umpires LV Jayasundra and DN Pathirana were officiating in their fifth and 10th match respectively.
  • Sanath Jayasuriya, leading Sri Lanka for the 54th time in his career, completed his 2000 runs as captain. He became second Sri Lankan after Arjuna Ranatunga and 13th captain in ODIs to achieve this landmark. The accompanying table has details :
  • Captain

    For

    M

    Inns

    NO

    Runs

    HS

    Ave

    100s

    50s

    0s

    A Ranatunga

    SL

    193

    183

    34

    5606

    131*

    37.62

    4

    37

    14

    M Azharuddin

    Ind

    174

    162

    29

    5239

    153*

    39.39

    4

    37

    6

    AR Border

    Aus

    178

    165

    27

    4439

    127*

    32.17

    2

    27

    6

    WJ Cronje

    SA

    138

    128

    20

    4070

    94

    37.69

    -

    31

    6

    Imran Khan

    Pak

    139

    122

    29

    3247

    102*

    34.91

    1

    18

    2

    IVA Richards

    WI

    106

    92

    11

    3203

    181

    39.54

    2

    23

    3

    SR Tendulkar

    Ind

    73

    70

    5

    2454

    186*

    37.75

    6

    12

    4

    SR Waugh

    Aus

    98

    82

    14

    2398

    120*

    35.26

    2

    15

    8

    SP Fleming

    NZ

    93

    88

    9

    2356

    116*

    29.82

    2

    14

    5

    MA Taylor

    Aus

    67

    65

    1

    2098

    105

    32.78

    1

    15

    2

    ADR Campbell

    Zim

    76

    74

    8

    2075

    102

    31.44

    2

    13

    3

    RB Richardson

    WI

    87

    83

    13

    2042

    122

    29.17

    2

    10

    -

    ST Jayasuriya

    SL

    54

    54

    1

    2029

    189

    38.28

    5

    14

    4

    • Craig McMillan , on 5,completed his 2000 runs in ODIs. He was playing his 89th match and 83rd innings. He became 12th New Zealander and 94th batsman in all to do so.
  • The wicket of Vincent was 50th for Muttiah Muralitharan on Sri Lankan soil. He became second Sri Lankan after Sanath Jayasuriya (74 wickets in 60 matches) to do so.
  • Adam Parare was scoring a fifty after 61 matches. His last fifty had also come against Sri Lanka (54 at Dhaka on October 26,1998). It was the fourth fifty by a New Zealander wicketkeeper against Sri Lanka. All four have been scored by Parore !
  • During his innings, Parore also completed his 2000 runs in `away' matches for New Zealand. He became fourth New Zealander to do so after Martin Crowe (2820 runs in 86 matches), John Wright (2752 runs in 106 matches) and Stephen Fleming (2344 runs in 90 matches).
  • The two wickets in this match has taken Muralitharan's tally to 32 in the year 2001 which makes him the bowler with most wickets in onedayers along with Pakistan's Waqar Younis (32 in 16) and Australia's Shane Warne (32 in 18). This was Murali's 18th match in year 2001.
  • The defeat was New Zealand's 50th under Stephen Fleming's captaincy. Fleming became first New Zealander and fifth captain in ODIs to achieve this dubious distinction. Others to do so are Sri Lankan Arjuna Ranatunga (95 losses in 193 matches), Indian Mohammad Azharuddin (76 losses in 174 matches),Australian Allan Border (67 losses in 178 matches) and Pakistani Imran Khan (59 losses in 139 matches). However all other four captains had won more matches than the matches they lost.
  • Sanath Jayasuriya was winning his 26th Man of the Match award. With this he equalled West Indian Desmond Haynes' tally of awards. Now only India's Sachin Tendukar (41),West Indian Viv Richards (31), Pakistani Saeed Anwar (27) and former teammate Aravinda de Silva (27) are ahead of Jayasuriya in this form of cricket.