Miscellaneous

3rd Match, Singapore Challenge, SA v NZ, Statistical Highlights

It was the 1625th ODI in cricket history

Rajneesh Gupta

  • It was the 1625th ODI in cricket history.

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  • It was South Africa's 207th and New Zealand's 350th ODI match in cricket history.

  • It was the 21st match between these two sides. The record now reads: South Africa 12, New Zealand 7, no result 2.

  • Umpires SK Bansal and Gamini Silva officiated in their twentyeighth and sixth match respectively.

  • Gary Kirsten when reached 27, completed his 5000 runs in ODIs. He became the second South African after Hansie Cronje and the 26th batsman in cricket history to reach this milestone. By taking 137 matches to do so Kirsten became the sixth quickest in terms of matches after West Indians Brian Lara (120), Gordon Greenidge (122), Viv Richards (126), Australian Dean Jones (131) and Indian Saurav Ganguly (131) to do so. However Kirsten by getting to this target in 137 innings became the sixth quickest in terms of least innings alongwith India's Sachin Tendulkar and after Viv Richards (114), Brian Lara (118), Gordon Greenidge (121), Saurav Ganguly (126) and Dean Jones (128).

  • Kirsten, on 71, also completed his 1000 runs in the year 2000-first batsman to do so this year. He was playing his 25th match and innings. Kirsten became the first South African and 11th batsman to accomplish this feat more than once.The previous such instance for him was in 1996 when he aggregated 1442 runs in 29 matches at an average of 57.68. India's Sachin Tendulkar has scored 1000 runs in a calendar year on four occasions (including three consecutive years from 1996 to 1998) and compatriot Saurav Ganguly three times (in successive years from 1997 to 1999). Others to have done so twice are West Indian Desmond Haynes, Pakistan's Aamir Sohail and Ijaz Ahmed, Australia's Mark Waugh and Ricky Ponting, India's Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajay Jadeja and Sri Lanka's Aravinda de Silva. The following table lists all batsman with 1000 or more runs in a calendar year:

    • Batsman (Country)   Year   Mts Inns NO  Runs   Hs   Ave  100  50
    SR Tendulkar (Ind)  1998   34  33   4   1894   143  65.31  9   7
SC Ganguly (Ind)    1999   41  41   3   1767   183  46.50  4  10
RS Dravid (Ind)     1999   43  43   5   1761   153  46.34  6   8
SR Tendulkar (Ind)  1996   32  32   2   1611   137  53.70  6   9
Saeed Anwar (Pak)   1996   36  36   5   1595   115  51.45  3  10
ME Waugh (Aus)      1999   36  36   3   1468   106  44.48  2  11
G Kirsten (SA)      1996   29  29   4   1442   188  57.68  6   4
BC Lara (WI)        1993   30  30   3   1349   153  49.96  4   7
SC Ganguly (Ind)    1997   38  35   3   1338   113  41.81  1  10
SC Ganguly (Ind)    1998   36  35   3   1328   124  41.50  4   7
Ijaz Ahmed (Pak)    1996   38  36   5   1283   117  41.39  1   9
M Azharuddin (Ind)  1998   37  33   4   1268   153  43.72  3   8
AC Gilchrist (Aus)  1999   37  37   0   1241   154  33.54  2   6
DL Haynes (WI)      1985   28  27   5   1232   145  56.00  3   7
IVA Richards (WI)   1985   29  25   5   1231   103  61.55  1  12
PA DeSilva (SL)     1997   28  27   4   1212   134  52.70  3   8
PA DeSilva (SL)     1996   30  29   5   1188   145  49.50  4   5
ST Jayasuriya (SL)  1997   26  26   3   1178   151  51.22  3   9
DM Jones (Aus)      1990   22  22   5   1174   145  69.06  4   7
RT Ponting (Aus)    1998   24  24   2   1166   145  53.00  3   6
AD Jadeja (Ind)     1999   36  34   7   1144   103  42.37  2   5
WJ Cronje (SA)      1994   29  29   3   1133   112  43.58  2   7
Inzamam-ul-Haq(Pak) 1999   29  28   4   1106   107  46.08  1  10
M Azharuddin (Ind)  1997   36  32   5   1104   111  40.89  1   9
Ijaz Ahmed (Pak)    1997   31  31   2   1104   139  38.07  1   8
Aamer Sohail (Pak)  1996   30  30   1   1090   111  37.59  2   7
SR Tendulkar (Ind)  1994   25  25   2   1089   115  47.35  3   9
DI Gower (Eng)      1983   20  20   3   1086   158  63.88  4   4
Javed Miandad (Pak) 1987   22  22   6   1084   113  67.75  2  10
DC Boon (Aus)       1994   26  26   3   1073    98  46.65  0   9
G Kirsten (SA)      2000   26  26   2   1066   115  44.41  1  10
ME Waugh (Aus)      1996   25  25   2   1059   130  46.04  4   5
Aamer Sohail (Pak)  1994   28  28   1   1053   134  39.00  2   6
BC Broad (Eng)      1987   26  26   0   1047    99  40.27  0  10
RT Ponting (Aus)    1999   32  32   6   1037    87  39.88  0   5
DJ Cullinan (SA)    1996   24  24   6   1034   124  57.44  3   5
SR Tendulkar (Ind)  1997   39  36   3   1011   117  30.64  2   5
DL Haynes (WI)      1989   23  23   5   1007   152  55.94  4   4
AD Jadeja (Ind)     1998   36  34  13   1004   116  47.81  2   6
  • Shaun Pollock with three wickets in this match now has a tally of 25 wickets in 14 matches against New Zealand which makes him the most successful South African bowler against New Zealand. The previous record was in the name of Allan Donald who has a tally of 23 wickets from 13 matches against New Zealand.

  • Shaun Pollock won Man of the Match for the fifth time in his career. He last won an award way back in 1997 against Pakistan at Lahore on 2nd November.

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