3rd Match, India v Zimbabwe, Coca Cola Cup, Statistical Highlights

It was the 1730th ODI in cricket history

28-Jun-2001

It was the 1730th ODI in cricket history.

It was India's 466th and Zimbabwe's 186th match.

It was the 36th match between these two sides. The record now reads : India 28,Zimbabwe 6,tied two.

It was the seventh match between these two sides in Zimbabwe. The record now reads : India 5, Zimbabwe 2.

Umpires MA Esat and Jeff Fenwick were officiating in their fifth and third match respectively.

Guy Whittall, playing in his 133rd match, became eighth player to captain Zimbabwe in a One-Day International match. Only Grant Flower has captained Zimbabwe after playing in more matches than Whittall. Surprisingly Zimbabwe has now used three captains in three matches of this tournament. Grant Flower was the in charge in the opening match against West Indies on June 23 and Heath Streak took upon the burden in the match against India on June 24.

Guy Whittall became second Zimbabwean to score a fifty on captaincy debut after Duncan Fletcher who made 69* against Australia at Nottingham on June 9,1983. Whittall also became 26th player in all to score a 50 plus score on captaincy debut. Of these four went on to reach three figure mark. They are New Zealander Glenn Turner (171* v East Africa at Birmingham on June 7,1975), West Indian Richie Richardson (106* v Pakistan at Sharjah on October 7,1991) ,India's Sachin Tendulkar (110 v Sri Lanka at Colombo RPS on August 8,1996) and Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya (102 v Zimbabwe at Colombo SSC on January 6,1998).

Zaheer Khan (4-42) recorded the best figures by an Indian on Zimbabwean soil. The previous best was the 3-36 by Ajit Agarkar in the last match.This also equaled Zaheer's best performance. He had returned identical figures against Zimbabwe at Sharjah on October 26,2000.

Saurav Ganguly when on 32,completed his 1000 runs against Zimbabwe. He was playing his 24th match match against Zimbabwe. Ganguly became only the second batsman in all ODIs to reach this landmark. The only other being teammate Sachin Tendulkar. The following table lists leading run scorers in ODIs against Zimbabwe :

Batsman	Runs	For	M	Inn	NO	Ave	HS	100	50	0
SR Tendulkar	1242	Ind	30	29	5	51.75	146	5	4	0
SC Ganguly	1053	Ind	24	24	3	50.14	144	3	5	0
NJ Astle	826	NZ	20	20	2	45.89	120	2	4	1
PA de Silva	772	SL	15	15	3	64.33	127*	2	5	0
ME Waugh	704	Aus	13	12	5	100.57	106	3	4	0
ST Jayasuriya	660	SL	21	21	0	31.43	102	1	5	0
AD Jadeja	656	Ind	19	18	8	65.60	116*	1	4	2
RS Mahanama	635	SL	14	12	1	57.73	119*	2	4	0
RT Ponting	626	Aus	12	12	2	62.60	145	1	5	0
Inzamam-ul-Haq	619	Pak	17	17	3	44.21	116*	1	2	2
Saeed Anwar	599	Pak	13	13	2	54.45	103*	2	3	1
SP Fleming	581	NZ	20	19	4	38.73	96	0	5	1
MS Atapattu	511	SL	15	14	1	39.31	90	0	5	1

Grant Flower (4-44) was capturing four wickets for the second time in his career. He had taken four for 32 against Kenya at Dhaka on March 23,1999.

Grant Flower's performance in the match (45 runs,4 wickets and two catches) was one among the best allround performances for Zimbabwe. The details :

Player	Batting	Bowling	Fielding	Opponents	Venue	Date
DAG Fletcher	69*	4-42	0	Aus	Nottingham	09-06-1983
GJ Crocker	50	4-26	0	Ind	Harare	25-10-1992
NC Johnson	59	4-42	0	Ken	Taunton	15-05-1999
GJ Whittall	30	4-35	0	SL	Bulawayo Q.C.	12-12-1999
HH Streak	45	4-8	0	WI	Sydney	23-01-2001
GW Flower	45	4-44	2	Ind	Bulawayo Q.C.	27-06-2001

Rahul Dravid was winning his sixth Man of the Match award.

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