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Tale of two captains
Rajneesh Gupta
September 06, 2005

As India and New Zealand [Images] gear up for the all-important final of Videocon [Get Quote] Tri-series on Tuesday, rediff.com takes a look at the past performances of these two teams in the finals of ODI tournaments.

The last time India won a ODI tournament was in July 2002 when India beat England [Images] in an epic NatWest Series final chasing a victory target of 326 runs. Since then India have played in nine tournaments, reached in the final seven times, but could not win even one on their own.

India can perhaps take solace from the fact that twice they succeeded in sharing the trophy as finals could not be completed because of rain and bad weather.

Sourav Ganguly [Images] have led India in 11 tournaments' finals in the past and have a none-too-impressive record of one win and 8 losses.

In a stark contrast New Zealand have reached the finals of an ODI tournament under Stephen Fleming [Images] only four times in the past, but they have clinched the trophy three times. Fleming's only defeat in a tournament final was in 2001-02 VB Series final when New Zealand were blanked 2-0 by South Africa.

India's performance in Tournament finals with Sourav Ganguly as captain:

Tournament

 

 

Opp

Result for India

ICC [Images] Knock Out  

in Ken 2000-01

Nairobi (Gym)

NZ 

lost by 4 wkts  

Champions Trophy

in UAE 2000-01

Sharjah 

SL 

lost by 245 runs

Coca Cola Cup  

in Zim 2001   

Harare

WI 

lost by 16 runs 

Coca Cola Cup  

in SL  2001   

Colombo (RPS) 

SL 

lost by 121 runs

Standard Bank  

in SA  2001-02

Durban 

SA 

lost by 6 wkts  

NatWest Series 

in Eng 2002   

Lord's

Eng

won  by 2 wkts  

ICC Knock Out  

in SL 2002-03

Colombo (RPS) 

SL 

No result       

Colombo (RPS) 

SL 

No result     

(India shared the trophy with SL)

World Cup      

in SA  2002-03

Johannesburg

Aus

lost by 125 runs

TVS [Get Quote] Cup        

in BD  2003   

Dhaka 

SA 

No result       

(India shared the trophy with SA)

VB Series      

in Aus 2003-04

Melbourne 

Aus

lost by 7 wkts  

Sydney 

Aus

lost by 208 runs

Asia Cup       

in SL  2004   

Colombo (RPS)

SL 

lost by 25 runs 

New Zealand's performance in Tournament finals with Stephen Fleming as captain:

Tournament

 

 

Opp

Result for NZ

ICC Knock Out

in Ken 2000-01

Nairobi (Gym)

Ind

won by 4 wkts

VB Series

in Aus  2001-02

Melbourne

SA

lost by 8 wkts

Sydney

SA

lost by 6 wkts

Bank Alfalah Cup

in SL 2003

Dambulla

Pak

won by 4 wkts

NatWest Series

in Eng 2004

Lord's

WI

won by 107 runs

One more area where Fleming has an edge over Ganguly in the finals of the tournament is performance with the bat.

Ganguly scored 117 in his first ever tournament final as a captain, but since then his scores in the final have been : 3,28,1,9,60,24,11*,6,3 & 4. The only fifty came in NatWest Series final, which incidentally is his only tournament win.

Fleming scored only 5 in his first innings, but has contributed 50,17,65 & 67 since then.

Performance of two captains with the bat in tournament finals:

 

Mts

Inns

NO

Runs

Hs

Ave

100

50

0

Ganguly

13

11

1

266

117

26.60

1

1

0

Fleming

5

5

0

204

67

40.80

0

3

0


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