Final (abandoned): India v West Indies, Statistical highlights

It was the sixth 'no result' match under Tendulkar's captaincy.Only Mohammad Azharuddin has captained in more (8), while SriLanka's Arjuna Ranatunga has also captained his side in six no result matches

Rajneesh Gupta

08-Sep-1999

It was the 46th 'no result' match in ODI history-18th involving India and 7th involving WestIndies.India has played in most 'no result' matches.However it was the first such instance between these two countries.The accompanying table gives details of all 'no result' matches in ODI history:


Country    Matches Aus  Eng  NZ   Pak  WI   Ind  SL   Zim  SA  Ken

India 18 3 1 3 4 1 - 5 - 1 - NewZealand 16 2 3 - 1 2 3 2 1 2 - SriLanka 13 2 - 2 2 1 5 - - 1 - Australia 11 - 1 2 2 1 3 2 - - - Pakistan 10 2 1 1 - - 4 2 - - - England 8 1 - 3 1 2 1 - - - - WestIndies 7 1 2 2 - - 1 1 - - - Sout=E8 Africa 5 - - 2 - - 1 1 1 - - Zimbabwe 3 - - 1 - - - - - 1 1 Kenya 1 - - - - - - - 1 - - TOTAL 46 11 8 16 10 7 18 13 3 5 1

It was the sixth 'no result' match under Tendulkar's captaincy.Only Mohammad Azharuddin has captained in more (8), while SriLanka's Arjuna Ranatunga has also captained his side in six no result matches.

Tendulkar,on 5,completed 2000 runs in matches in which he has captained India.He was playing his 59th match and 56th innings as captain.He,thus became second Indian after Mohammad Azharuddin (5239 runs in 174 matches) and 10th batsman in the world to do so.Tendulkar's batting average (39.13) is second only to fellow Indian Mohammad Azharuddin (39.39) among the captains who have scored more than 2000 runs in a career.

Tendulkar has now scored 843 runs against WestIndies in 25 matches.Now only Mohammad Azharuddin has scored more runs for India against WestIndies - 998 in 43 matches.

Reon King (3-25) achieved his best figures in ODIs.His previous best was 3 for 30 against NewZealand at Dublin on 21 May 1999.Incidentally King has now taken 32 wickets in just 19 matches.

Contributed by: Rajneesh Gupta (rgcricket@hotmail.com)