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Wahab's record and left-arm goodness

Stats highlights from the Group B match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe at the Gabba

Shiva Jayaraman
01-Mar-2015
1 Pakistan player who has hit a fifty and taken four or more wickets in a World-Cup match - Wahab Riaz. Majid Khan and Imran Khan are his closest rivals, but they picked up only three wickets after a fifty in 1979 and 1987 respectively.
0 Times that two left-arm fast bowlers from the same team had taken four or more wickets each in an ODI before Wahab and Mohammad Irfan. Overall, including today, there are only three instances of two left-arm quicks taking four wickets each in a match. Trent Boult and Mitchell Starc's five and six wickets respectively in yesterday's World Cup game was the most recent such occurrence.
2005 The last time a Pakistan player other than Shahid Afridi took four wickets and hit fifty or more runs in an ODI. Abdul Razzaq had hit an unbeaten 63 and taken 4 for 53 against Australia in 2005. Including Afridi and Wahab today, only five Pakistan players have achieved this.
4/30 Irfan's bowling figures in this match - his best - and only the second time he has taken a four-wicket haul in ODIs. His previous one was against South Africa in 2013.
40 dot balls bowled by Tendai Chatara in Brisbane. Chatara has bowled 138 dot balls so far in this World Cup, which is the second only to Trent Boult's 140. Chatara's 3 for 35 is also his best figures in ODIs.
2.97 Zimbabwe's economy rate while bowling in the mandatory Powerplay in this World Cup - the best by almost a run. Afghanistan are behind them with 3.70 and England have fared the worst, conceding 7.10 runs an over on an average in their four games.
14 Runs scored by Pakistan in the first 10 overs today - their second-lowest score after 10 overs in ODIs since 2001. Their lowest is 8, which they made against South Africa in 2007. This also equalled the least any team has scored against Zimbabwe in ODIs since 2001.
6 Ducks by Pakistan's openers in their last 10 ODIs. Consequently, there have been six single-digit stands for Pakistan's first wicket in their last 10 ODIs. The top two batsmen have failed to add more than a run together in as many as five of these occasions.
1 Half-century by a No. 8 batsman for Pakistan in the World Cup before Wahab's 54 off 46 at the Gabba. Razzaq's 62 against New Zealand in 2011 is the highest. This is also the best score by No. 8 batsman in this tournament.
2003 The last time a wicketkeeper collected five or more dismissals in a World Cup game before Umar Akmal's haul today. Adam Gilchrist had taken six catches against Namibia in Potchefstroom, which is a record for the most dismissals by a wicketkeeper in World Cups.
91 Balls taken by Misbah-ul-Haq to get to his fifty in this match. Only two of his 40 ODI half-centuries have come slower than this one with a 119-ball effort against West Indies being his slowest. This wasn't this World Cup's slowest fifty though. Samiullah Shenwari took 113 balls to get to his half-century in Afghanistan's stunning chase against Scotland. Misbah's strike rate in his innings of 73 off 121 balls - the lowest in an innings of 50 or more runs in this World Cup.
38 Overs bowled by Shahid Afridi since his last wicket in the World Cup. He had finished with figures of 4 for 30 against West Indies in 2011 and since then has failed to take a wicket in four games, conceding 196 runs at an economy of 5.15.
47 Runs added by Elton Chigumbura and Tinashe Panyangara in their partnership - Zimbabwe's highest stand for the ninth wicket in ODIs against Pakistan.

Shiva Jayaraman is a sub-editor (stats) at ESPNcricinfo.com