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Statistical Highlights 3rd match: India v West Indies at Singapore (Kallang) on 5-9-99

Mohandas Menon

• This match was the 1494th in Limited overs international (LOI) history.
• This match was India's 411th and West Indies' 374th in LOIs. Incidentally, it was on this day 26 years ago - in 1973 - the West Indies made its first appearance in LOI match; against England at Leeds.
• This match was the 58th meeting between the two sides.
• Perhaps for the first time in an international match more than 50% of the 22 players were left-handed. There were 12 left-hand batsmen in this match - six each for the West Indies and India.
• Wavell Hinds, who will be celebrating his 23rd birthday, the tomorrow (on the 7th) became the 95th player to represent West Indies in LOIs.
• Saurav Ganguly, playing in his 112th match, became India's 15th LOI captain. Incidentally, he becomes the only second Indian left-hander after Ajit Wadekar to captain in a LOI match.
• Debasish Mohanty provided the 21st instance and the first by an Indian to capture a wicket of the very first ball of the match when he had Ridley Jacobs caught by Chopra.
• Jacobs had an excellent run of scores : 29, 33, 68, 54, 25, 51, 80*, 49*, 47 since 18-4-1999 (v Australia) - a total of 436 runs (avg. 62.29) before his first ball dismissal.
• India conceded seven runs off one ball from Mohanty when Chanderpaul (when 17*) hit a no-ball for a six. He was dismissed the next ball.
• The two catches by Nikhil Chopra equals the maximum taken by a fielder in a LOI match at Singapore. He becomes the ninth fielder to achieve this on ten occasions at both the venues here. Sri Lankan Muthiah Muralitharan has done it twice, while Zimbabwean Neil Johnson (in the last match) and Chopra are the only fielders to do so at thus venue.
• Sadagoppan Ramesh playing in his 15th LOI match but bowling (off-spin) for the first time in his career claimed the wicket of Nixon McLean off the very first ball to become the first Indian and the sixth bowler in LOI history to do so. Nine other Indians have done so in their very first over, with Sanjay Manjrekar doing so off his second ball against Australia at Hobart on 10-12-1991 when he claimed the wicket of Dean Jones.

Interestingly Ramesh has never before captured a single wicket in his 39 first-class matches or in any of his domestic one-day matches.
• Later in the match debutant Hinds also took a wicket of his very first ball (Prasad). He becomes the second West Indian after Clive Lloyd and seventh bowler in LOIs to do so.
• Ramesh, however, in his third over conceded 20 runs (214616) to Lara and Powell, which was the 20th over of the innings. He had conceded a single and two runs in his first two overs.
• Brain Lara, batting at number seven, scored a 60 in just 48 balls with 2 fours and five sixes. For the first time in his career Lara went in a batting position below five.
• Ridley Jacobs's unusual dismissal of Ganguly, who was stumped off the pace bowler Bryan takes his tally of dismissals to exactly 50 (43ct+7st) which makes him the third West Indian keeper, after Jeff Dujon and Junior Murray, and the 19th keeper in LOIs to take 50 or more dismissals. Jacobs needing just 30 matches became the quickest in LOI history in reaching this milestone. South African Dave Richardson and Indian Nayan Mongia, the previous quickest, did so in their 33rd match.
• The three catches by Nehemiah Perry is now the maximum taken by a fielder in a LOI match at Singapore. Nine other fielders have taken two catches on ten occasions.
• In all, 37 sixes have been hit in three matches in this tournament so far. Sixteen sixes were hit in the first match, while 12 came in the second. In this match nine sixes were hit. In fact Brain Lara's fifth six of his innings surpassed the maximum hit at Singapore in the last tournament (in 1996) which saw 35 sixes in four matches.
• It was Brain Lara's 22nd man of the match award of his career in his 148th match. Surprisingly it was his first such award against India in 23 matches.