3rd Match, India v Sri Lanka, Coca Cola Cup, Statistical Highlights

It was the 1737th ODI in cricket history

23-Jul-2001

It was the 1737th ODI in cricket history.

It was India's 471st and Sri Lanka's 357th match- 67th between these two sides. The record now reads : Sri Lanka 28, India 34 and abandoned 5.

Umpires Peter Manuel and TH Wijewardene were officiating in their 33rd and fourth match respectively.

Amay Khurasiya was making a comeback into Indian side after about 22 months. He last appeared for India against West Indies at Singapore (Kallang) on September 5,1999 , thus missing 59 matches in between. Khurasiya became 14th Indian to have a gap of 50 or more matches in between two consecutive appearances. Others to do so for India are Ashish Kapoor (157 matches),Robin Singh (146), Harvinder Singh (110),Saurav Ganguly (91), Harbhajan Singh (84), Arun Lal (74), Paras Mhambrey (72), Rajesh Chauhan (71), WV Raman (71), Virender Shewag (66),Anshuman Gaekwad (64), Maninder Singh (52) and Salil Ankola (51).

Avishka Gunawardene (67) made his highest score against India. His previous highest was 52 (off 55 balls) at Sharjah on November 6,1998.

The eighth wicket partnership of 49 runs between Kumara Dharmasena and Suresh Perera was Sri Lanka's best for this wicket against India. This obliterated the previous highest of 39* between Arjuna Ranatunga and Rumesh Ratnayake at Sharjah on April 25,1990.

The partnership was also the highest for Sri Lanka for the eighth wicket against any country in Sri Lanka. The previous highest was 40 run-partnership between Upul Chandana and Chamara Silva against Australia at this same ground on August 26,1999.

The partnership also bettered the 47 run unbroken stand between Aravinda de Silva and Hasan Tillekeratne against England at Sydney on February 3,1999 which was then the highest stand for Sri Lanka for eighth wicket in all day-night matches.

Saurav Ganguly has now aggregated 1199 runs in 39 day-night matches under floodlights (i.e.batting second). He thus surpassed Mohammad Azharuddin's tally of 1176 runs from 45 matches. Now only Sachin Tendulkar (2058 runs from 45 matches) is ahead of Ganguly for India. Incidentally Tendulkar's aggregate is record in ODIs.

The defeat by six runs was India's joint second narrowest in a daynight encounter. It had lost to Sri Lanka at this same ground by 2 runs on August 17,1997 and to Australia by six runs at Sydney on January 20,1992. The following table lists India's narrowest defeats in daynight matches :

Margin	Winner	Score	Loser	Score	Venue	Date
2 runs	SL	302-4 (50 overs)	Ind	300-7 (50 overs)	Colombo RPS	17-08-1997
6 runs	Aus	208-9 (50 overs)	Ind	202-7 (50 overs)	Sydney	20-01-1992
6 runs	SL	221-9 (50 overs)	Ind	215-7 (50 overs)	Colombo RPS	22-07-2001
7 runs	Eng	250 (49.5 overs)	Ind	243 (49.3 overs)	Sharjah	11-12-1997
8 runs	SL	204-7 (50 overs)	Ind	196 (49.2 overs)	Colombo RPS	12-08-1993
9 runs	Eng	236-9 (50 overs)	Ind	227 (49.2 overs)	Perth	22-02-1992

Suresh Perera was winning his maiden Man of the Match award in his 13th match.

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