4th Match, West Indies v South Africa, Statistical Highlights

It was the 1715th ODI in cricket history

11-May-2001

It was the 1715th ODI in cricket history.

It was West Indies' 421st and South Africa's 226th match.

It was the 22nd match between these two sides. The record now reads: South Africa 15, West Indies 7.

Umpire Glanroy Johnson was officiating for the first time in a ODI. The other umpire Eddie Nicholls was standing in his 25th match. He became 45th umpire to officiate in 25 or more matches.

Jacques Kallis was missing a match for the first time since March 28, 2000 when he did not appear against Pakistan in the final league match of Coca-Cola Cup. Since then Kallis had made 32 consecutive appearances for South Africa.

Brian Lara playing in his 187th match (183rd innings), completed his 7000 runs in ODIs when his score reached 5. He became second West Indian after Desmond Haynes (8648 runs from 238 matches) and 12th batsman in cricket history to reach this landmark.

Lara, with 183 innings and 187 matches, has now become the quickest among the 12 batsmen to get to this mark. The previous record for the quickest 7000 was on the name of former teammate Desmond Haynes who did so in 187 innings and 188 matches on December 14, 1991. The following table gives details of matches and innings taken by all 12 batsmen with 7000 plus runs in a career.

Batsman        For  Mts  Inns NO  Ave    Hs  100s  0s   Vs  series
BC Lara        WI   187   183  18  42.42  169  14   11   SA  2000-01
DL Haynes      WI   188   187  24  42.94  152* 16    6   Ind 1991-92
SR Tendulkar   Ind  196   189  18  40.94  143  16    8   SL  1997-98
Saeed Anwar    Pak  197   194  16  39.33  194  17   12   Aus 1999-00
ME Waugh       Aus  203   198  16  38.46  130  13   11   Pak 1999-00
Javed Miandad  Pak  215   204  40  42.68  119*  8    6   WI  1992-93
Inzamam-ul-Haq Pak  219   208  28  38.89  137*  7    9   WI  1999-00
PA de Silva    SL   222   216  24  36.46  145  10    9   SA  1997-98
A Ranatunga    SL   247   233  47  37.63  131*  4   13   Ind 1998-99
M Azharuddin   Ind  252   233  46  37.43  111*  4    7   SL  1997-98
Salim Malik    Pak  272   246  38  33.65  102   5   18   Ind 1998
SR Waugh       Aus  303   271  55  32.41  120*  3   15   Zim 2000-01

The fifth wicket partnership of 67 runs between Carl Hooper and Marlon Samuels was West Indies' best for this wicket against South Africa in all matches. This obliterated the previous highest of 62* between Keith Arthurton and Hooper at Johannesburg on 22-01-1999.

The sixth wicket partnership of 46 runs between Samuels and Ridley Jacobs was West Indies' alltime best against South Africa for this wicket putting into shade the 24 run-partnership between Hooper and Jacobs at Bloemfontein on 05-02-1999.

Allan Donald (4-38) took four wickets in a match for the 12th time in his career. This was also his best bowling against West Indies bettering the 3 for 21 at Port Elizabeth on 11-02-1993.

Donald's figures were also the best by any South African on West Indian soil beating Shaun Pollock's 3 for 23 in the previous encounter between these two sides on this same ground just a day before.

West Indies have now lost three matches at a trot in the series - its worst losing streak at home soil. West Indies had faced defeat in two successive matches on three occasions - vs Australia in 1990-91 on two occasions and vs Pakistan in 1992-93.

Allan Donald was winning his eighth Man of the Match award. His last award had come against Australia at Melbourne on 23-01-1998.

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