It was the 53rd meeting between the two sides. The record now reads
: Australia 27, Pakistan 23, tied one and abandoned 2.It was the 33rd meeting between the two sides on Australian soil.
The record now reads: Australia 18, Pakistan 13, tied one and
abandoned one.It was the tenth match between the two sides at this ground.The
record now reads: Australia 7,Pakistan 3.Umpires Peter Parker and Simon Taufel were officiating in their 25th
and 8th match respectively.Moin Khan was playing his 150th match. He became 12th Pakistani and
41st player overall to do so.The match was 284th for Wasim Akram. He thus became the most capped
Pakistani player surpassing Salim Malik's tally of 283 matches.
Only India's Mohammad Azharuddin has made more ODI appearances than
Akram - 323.Ijaz Ahmed's duck was 12th of his career in 238th matchfourth
against Australia in 30th match. He has now been dismissed without
scoring on most occasions for Pakistan against Australia. Ijaz was
previously at level with Rameez Raja and Salim Malik who each has
recorded three ducks in 18 and 26 matches respectively (later Wasim
Akram also recorded his third duck against Australia in his 37th
match). Just for the record, South Africa's Allan Donald holds the
record of aggregating most ducks in a career against Australia - five
in 28 matches.Abdur Razzaq became sixth Pakistani to score a fifty while
batting at number eight.Incidentally Wasim Akram (79, v SriLanka,
Visakhapatnam,27-03-1999) holds the world record of playing the
highest individual innings at this position. Other Pakistani batsmen
to score a fifty at number eight are: Asif Mujtaba (60*,v
Australia,Perth, 02-01-1987), Azhar Mahmood (59*, v South Africa,
Lahore, 02-11-1997), Salim Yousuf (59, v Australia, Sydney,
25-02-1990) and Manzoor Elahi (50*,v India, Sharjah, 05-12-1986).The wicket of Adam Gilchrist was 50th for Shoaib Akhtar in ODIs in
his 29th match.He became 15th Pakistani and 114th bowler overall to
reach this milestone. Akhtar is now the third fastest for Pakistan in
terms of least matches taken to do so after Waqar Younis (27) and
Saqlain Mushtaq (28).Michael Bevan completed his 4000 runs during his knock of 15. He
was playing his 126th match (and 111th innings). Bevan thus became
seventh Australian after Mark Waugh (6993 runs in 202 matches), Allan
Border (6524 in 273), Steve Waugh (6428 in 240), Dean Jones (6068 in
164), David Boon (5964 in 181) and Geoff Marsh (4357 in 117) and 35th
batsman overall to do so.Steve Waugh's innings (81*) is the highest by an Australian captain
against Pakistan in all matches. The previous highest was Mark
Taylor's 78 at Adelaide on 13-12-1992.The defeat was Pakistan's first in last 11 matches since losing to
Australia in World Cup final at Lord's on 20-06-1999Steve Waugh won his 19th MoM award.
