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Statistical Highlights-2nd match: India v Zimbabwe at Singapore (Kallang) on 4-9-99

Mohandas Menon

• This match was the 1493rd in Limited overs international (LOI) history.
• This match was India's 410th and Zimbabwe's 127th in LOIs.
• This match was the 26th meeting between the two sides.
• Andy Whittall was appearing in his 50th match. He became the 9th Zimbabwean and 207th player in LOIs to do so.
• The partnership of 143 runs between Sachin Tendulkar and Ajay Jadeja was India's best for the 3rd wicket against Zimbabwe. It obliterates the previous best of 104 (unbeaten) between Vinod Kambli and Ajay Sharma at Pune on 25-3-1993.
• The partnership was also the third highest at Singapore and now the highest at this venue (Kallang) for any wicket. The partnership however was the highest for the third wicket at Singapore, bettering the previous best of 61 between the Pakistanis Rameez Raja and Salim Malik against Sri Lanka on 7-4-1996.
• The two catches by Neil Johnson equals the maximum taken by a fielder in a LOI match at Singapore. He becomes the eighth fielder to achieve this on nine occasions at both the venues here. Sri Lankan Muthiah Muralitharan has done it twice.
• Jadeja's six sixes while scoring 88 (retd. hurt) equals the maximum hit by four other batsmen, in LOIs, who have scored a fifty - without scoring a hundred. New Zealander Lance Cairns hit six sixes while scoring just 52 against Australia at Melbourne on 13-2-1983.
• Incidentally, Jadeja's score of 88 was the joint fourth highest by a batsman who have had the misfortune of "retiring hurt" in a LOI match. Pakistani Zahid Fazal's 98 (retd. hurt) against India at Sharjah on 25-10-1991 remains the highest. The previous highest by an Indian who had to retire hurt was 32, by Dilip Vengsarkar against West Indies at The Oval in the 1983 WC (15-6-1983).
• The 11 sixes was the maximum hit by India in a LOI match. The previous best were nine it hit against the same team at Sharjah on 13-11-98 and against Sri Lanka at Taunton on 26-5-1999.
• India's total of 245 in just 30 overs was the second fastest in LOI history in terms of run-rate for a team playing at least 25 overs. While India's run-rate was 8.16 runs per over, the best still remains with Pakistan who against India at Lahore on 2-10-1997 had scored 219-1 in just 26.2 overs - at 8.32 runs per over! India's previous best was the run-rate of 7.48 when it scored 299-4 in 40 overs against Sri Lanka at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium on 17-1-1987.
• Anil Kumble's wicket of Alistair Campbell was his 29th in 18 matches, which makes him the bowler with maximum wickets against Zimbabwe. Kumble went ahead of fellow teammate Srinath (28 wickets in 16 matches).
• Andy Flower with 692 runs in 22 matches has now scored the maximum by a Zimbabwean batsman against India. He surpassed the record of Alistair Campbell who had 652 runs in 22 matches. Incidentally, Andy Flower's aggregate is now the highest by a Zimbabwean against any other team in LOIs.
• The unbeaten 37-run partnership between A Flower and Whittall was the highest ever for the ninth wicket in Singapore. It betters the previous highest of just 18 between Sri Lankans Kumara Dharmasena and Pramodaya Wickremasinghe against Pakistan on 2-4-1996 at the Padang ground.
• India's victory by 115 runs was its biggest against Zimbabwe in terms of runs surpassing the previous best of 67 runs at Faridabad on 19-3-1993.
• It was also the biggest victory by any team in a 30-over truncated LOI match.
• Sachin Tendulkar's 34th man-of-the-match award extended his own record tally of maximum such awards by any other player in LOI history.