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Statistical highlights: 1st one-dayer - India v New Zealand at Rajkot, 5 November, 1999

Mohandas Menon

• This match was the 1522nd in limited over internationals (LOI) history.

• This match was India's 421st and New Zealand's 333rd in LOIs.

• This match was the 53rd meeting between the two sides.

• This match was the sixth to be played at this venue. India has played five, while it was New Zealand's first at Rajkot.

• This match was New Zealand's first after the World Cup, while India was playing its 16th.

• Scott Styris was 111th player to appear for New Zealand in LOIs.

• Sachin Tendulkar was appearing in his 225th LOI match, which equals the tally of India's current coach Kapil Dev. Now among Indians only Azharuddin has appeared in more matches - 323.

• Nathan Astle's 120 was his seventh hundred of his career and it equals his highest individual score previously made against Zimbabwe at Auckland on 28-1-1996.

• Astle has now scored four hundreds on Indian soil. He equals the tally of Ravi Shastri, Navjot Sidhu and Ajay Jadeja. Only Tendulkar with 8 hundreds has scored more. This also means that he has now more hundreds by any other visiting batsman on Indian soil. Australians Geoff Marsh and Mark Waugh have scored three each.

• Astle's 120 was the joint fourth highest individual score by a New Zealander in LOIs. Only Glenn Turner's 171* and 140 against East Africa and Sri Lanka at Birmingham (7-6-1975) and Auckland (20-3-1983) respectively and Chris Harris' 130 at Chennai against Australia on 11-3-1996 exceeds Astle's effort. Astle's also has another score of 120 against Zimbabwe (see above).

• It was the highest score by a New Zealander against India bettering Chris Cairns' 115 at Christchurch earlier this year on 19-1-1999.

• It was also the highest score made at this venue surpassing West Indian Viv Richards' 110* against India on 5-1-1988.

• The partnership of 115 between Craig Spearman and Nathan Astle was New Zealand's second best against India for the first wicket after the 140 between John Wright and Andrew Jones at Baroda (Motibagh) on 17-12-1988.

• The partnership was also the second highest for the first wicket at this venue. The best still remains as the 122 between Indians Navjot Sidhu and Manoj Prabhakar against Sri Lanka on 15-2-1994. However it was the highest for the first wicket by a visiting team at this venue. It betters the 68 run partnership between Australians David Boon and Geoff Marsh on 7-10-1986.

• The Spearman-Astle partnership was also New Zealand's first 100-plus partnership for the first wicket after 31 matches. The last occasion before this was when Astle and Llorne Howell put on 125 and 147 in successive matches against Zimbabwe at Christchurch and Napier on 4-3-1998 and 6-3-1998 respectively.

• New Zealand's 349-9 was the joint sixth highest score made in LOIs.

• It was New Zealand's highest in LOIs. The previous highest being the 348-8 also against India at Nagpur on 26-11- 1995.

• It was the highest team score ever recorded against India. The previous highest was also by New Zealand at Nagpur (see above).

• It was the highest team score made on Indian soil bettering New Zealand's effort at Nagpur (see above).

• The previous highest team total at this venue was 263-3 by Australia against India on 7-10-1986.

• Venkatesh Prasad has conceded the seventh maximum runs (75) by an Indian bowler in a LOI match. Against New Zealand only Anil Kumble has conceded more - 78 in 10 overs at Christchurch on 19-1-1999.

• Venkatesh Prasad has now taken most wickets (3) while conceding maximum runs (75) by an Indian bowler in a LOI match. Harvinder Singh had figures of 3-74 against Pakistan at Dhaka on 18-1-1998.

• Nikhil Chopra has conceded the second most maximum runs by a bowler against New Zealand without taking a wicket. The record is still held by fellow-Indian Sanjeev Sharma who had figures of 10-0-74-0 at Baroda (Motibagh) on 17-12-1988. Chopra equals Bangladeshi Enamul Haq who had similar figures against New Zealand at Sharjah on 28-4-1990.

• New Zealand's score of 349 was the third highest for a keeper (MSK Prasad) not to concede a bye. Sri Lanka's Romesh Kaluwitharana holds the LOI record by not conceding any byes in India's total of 373 at Taunton on 26-5-1999 and Pakistan's 371 at Nairobi on 4-10-1996. The previous Indian record was held by Nayan Mongia who too did not concede a bye during New Zealand's 348 at Nagpur on 26-11-1995.

• Ajay Jadeja (95) on 95 reached his 5000th run of his career in his 182nd match and 165 innings. He becomes the third Indian after Azharuddin (9110 runs) and Tendulkar (8382) and the 23rd batman in LOIs to do so.

• Ajay Jadeja's 95 was his second score in the nineties against New Zealand. He had a score of 90 at Delhi on 3-11-1994. He now joins Englishman Graham Gooch and South African Peter Kirsten to record maximum scores in the nineties against New Zealand in LOIs. Incidentally, Jadeja is the only Indian batsman to record scores in the "90s" against New Zealand.

• Adam Parore's stumping of Chopra was his 13th dismissal (9ct+4st) in 19 matches against India. He overtakes the previous tally of 12 dismissals (all catches) by Ian Smith in 14 matches.

• The partnership of 18 runs between Anil Kumble and Venkatesh Prasad was India's best for the 10th wicket against New Zealand. The previous highest was the 17 between P Krishnamurthy and BS Chandrasekhar at Auckland on 22-2-1976.

• Astle (120 & 3-40) became the only second all-rounder in LOIs to score a hundred and capture three or more wickets in a match on two separate occasions. He had scored a 117 and captured 4-42 against Pakistan at Mohali on 9-5-1997. He now joins West Indian Viv Richards to become the only all-rounder in LOI history to achieve this feat on two separate occasions.

• The match aggregate of 655 runs was the fourth highest in LOIs. Only the match aggregate of 664 runs at Singapore (between Sri Lanka and Pakistan) on 2-4-1996, 662 at Sharjah (West Indies and Sri Lanka) on 16-10-1995 and 660 at Nairobi (Pakistan and Sri Lanka) on 4-10-1996 exceeds the run feast at Rajkot. The previous highest match aggregate in India was the 619 runs between Pakistan and India at Chennai on 21-5-1997.

• India's total of 306 was the third highest by a team batting second and losing. The other such scores are 329 by Sri Lanka against West Indies at Sharjah on 16-10-1995 and 315 by Pakistan against Sri Lanka at Singapore on 2-4-1996.

• India's previous highest score batting second and losing was the 300-7 against Sri Lanka at Colombo (Premadasa) on 17-8-1997.

• New Zealand has now beaten India in the last three matches. This has been New Zealand's best winning sequence against India during this decade.

• Astle won his 13th Man of the match award in his 92nd match. Only Martin Crowe with 20 "awards" has won more for New Zealand.