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Most consecutive losses

Rajneesh Gupta | September 22, 2004 16:34 IST

England booked a place in the final of the ICC Champions Trophy with a thumping win over world-champions Australia by six wickets.

Quite amazingly it was after more than five years England tasted success against their archrivals in ODIs.

Australia had last lost to England in the shorter version of the game in a World Series match in January 1999. Since then England suffered defeat in 14 consecutive matches before winning this one.

The following table lists the longest losing sequences in ODIs by a side against a particular country.

The Australia - Zimbabwe instance at the top of the table deserves a special mention.

Zimbabwe defeated Australia in the very first encounter between the two countries. Since then Australia have not lost a single match against Zimbabwe.

In fact their winning sequence came to a halt only by a no-result match at Melbourne on 29 Jan 2004. Australia has won three more matches v Zimbabwe since then taking their tally to 25 wins out of 25 result-oriented matches!

MtsWinnerLoserStarted onEnded on
22AustraliaZimbabwe16 Jun 198329 Jan 2004
14AustraliaSri Lanka23 Jan 198515 Aug 1992
14South AfricaPakistan10 Jan 199528 Mar 2000
14AustraliaEngland26 Jan 199921 Sep 2004
12AustraliaNew Zealand07 Jan 198818 Dec 1990
11AustraliaWest Indies30 May 199925 May 2003
11IndiaNew Zealand25 Jan 198601 Mar 1990
11IndiaBangladesh27 Oct 198821 Jul 2004+
11PakistanZimbabwe24 Nov 199804 Mar 2003
11Sri LankaBangladesh02 Apr 198623 Jul 2004+
11PakistanBangladesh02 Jun 200029 Jul 2004+
10West IndiesSri Lanka07 Jun 197519 Oct 1989
10ZimbabweKenya27 Feb 199608 Dec 2002
10ZimbabweBangladesh11 Oct 199710 Mar 2004
+ still continuing

Note: Zimbabwe's winning run against Kenya came to rest at Harare on 08 Dec 2002 with a no-result match. After this Zimbabwe also defeated Kenya in two more matches making 12 wins out of 12 results oriented matches.



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