5th ODI, India v Australia,Statistical highlights

It was the 1701st ODI in cricket history

07-Apr-2001

It was the 1701st ODI in cricket history.

It was the 481st match for Australia and 464th match for India.

It was the 67th match between these two sides. The record now reads : Australia 39, India 25, abandoned 3.

Umpires F Gomes and S Porel were officiating in their second and sixth match respectively.

Saurav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar were opening the Indian innings together for the 100th time (since the Titan Cup match against South Africa at Jaipur on 23-10-1996). They thus became only the second pair in ODI history to do so after West Indian pair of Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes who has opened together on 102 occasions from 1979 to 1991.

VVS Laxman (101) was scoring his maiden hundred in his 18th match. His previous best was 83 also against Australia in the third match of this series at Indore on 31-03-2001.

Laxman's hundred was the first ever individual hundred scored at this ground. The previous highest was the 96 by Sri Lankan Aravinda deSilva against Australia on 25-10-1989.

The second wicket partnership of 105 runs between Ganguly and Laxman was the best at this ground for the second wicket bettering the previous best of 67 runs between West Indians Stuart Williams and Brian Lara against New Zealand on 26-10-1994.

The partnership of 97 runs between Laxman and Rahul Dravid was also the best at this ground for the third wicket eclipsing the previous best of 61 runs between Sri Lanka's Roshan Mahanama and Aravinda deSilva against India on 28-12-1997.

Shane Warne by returning the figures of 8-0-62-0 (Runs per Over 7.75) recorded the worst ever figures of his ODI career. Interestingly his previous worst bowling also came against India during the 1999 World Cup at the Oval on June 4. His figures then were 6.2-0-49-0.

India's total (265-6) was the highest at this ground bettering the 229-5 by Sri Lanka against India on 28-12-1997. However Australia later got this record on its name as it overhauled India's total with two overs to spare.

Adam Gilchrist (76) raced to his fifty off just 28 ballsthe third joint fastest fifty for Australia. Only Simon O'Donnell (18 ball) against Sri Lanka at Sharjah on 02-05-1990 and Wayne Philips (26 ball) against New Zealand at Wellington on 26-03-1986 had taken lesser balls than Gilchrist to complete a fifty for Australia, while Tom Moody had also taken 28 balls for his fifty against Bangladesh at Chester-le-Street on 23-05-1999.

Gilchrist's fifty was the second fastest fifty against India in India after Pakistan's Salim Malik's 23 ball fifty at Calcutta on 18-02-1987

The wicket of Steve Waugh was 100th for Sachin Tendulkar in his ODI career. He became the eighth Indian and the 58th bowler overall to do so. By taking 268 matches to accomplish this feat, Tendulkar became the slowest to do so beating West Indian Viv Richards who took his 100th wicket in his 162nd match. The previous record for India was on the name of Ravi Shastri who needed exactly 100 matches to reach the three figure mark.

With this Tendulkar also became the first player in ODI cricket to score more than 10000 runs and take 100 wickets in a career.

The seventh wicket unbroken partnership of 67 runs between Michael Bevan and Ian Harvey was the best for this wicket at this ground beating the previous best of 13 recorded on two separate occasions.

Australia became first team to beat India in a bilateral series in India since 1987-88 when the hosts were thrashed 6-1 by West Indies. India had played 13 series during this period winning 11 and drawing the remaining two (v England in 1993 by 3-3 and v Sri Lanka in 1997-98 by 1-1).

Just for the record the other teams to beat India at home in a bilateral series are: West Indies in 1983-84 (5-0), Australia in 1984-85 (3-0 in five matches), England in 1984-85 (4-1) and Pakistan in 1986-87 (5-1).

Bevan won his ninth Man of the Match award.

At the end of the series:

Australia's overall ODI record: P 481,W 271,L 189,NR 12,T 6

India's overall ODI record: P 464,W 210, L 233, NR 18,T 3

Steve Waugh's captaincy record: P 92, W 58,L 30, NR 1,T 3

Saurav Ganguly's captaincy record: P 34,W 17, L 17

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