Details per match
Particular Country Matches Extras Run-outs Extras Runout
India-South India 3 115 3 38.33 1.00
Africa Test
series:
South 3 87 3 29.00 1.00
Africa
West Indies Australia 5 162 4 32.40 0.80
-Australia
Test series:
West 5 252 3 63.00 0.60
Indies
Standard India 67 117 11 16.71 1.57
Bank
Triangular
Tourney
South 67 80 2 12.57 0.20
Africa
Zimbabwe 6 99 6 16.50 1.00
Note: Record updated at the end of the triangular turnout in South
Africa.
The most startling are he figures for the SBI triangular series, in which Indian batsmen were run out on as many as 11 occasions, as against just two to South Africa and 6 to Zimbabwe. What this set of figures reveal are two lacunae in the Indian side - the first, obviously, is that our calling and running between the wickets needs urgent attention (Saurav Ganguly, for instance, was one of the main culprits in this regard, getting himself run out with alarming frequency); and the other is that the Indian fielders are not as sharp as those of Zimbabwe and South Africa when it comes to seizing chances to run their opponents out. And since fielding is a crucial aspect of one day cricket, this is obviously a failing that requires the most urgent attention.
If India's record of getting singles and twos and running safely between wickets has been less than optimum, the side has, paradoxically, not done too well in the matter of finding the boundaries either.
While the likes of Tendulkar and Dravid fired in the final of the SBI series, the impression would have been that Indian batsmen pepper the line with big hits - but this is an impression not exactly reinforced by the facts.
In fact, if you look at the figures for the three sides that featured in the recent SBI triangular, India in fact ranks even below Zimbabwe when it comes to big hitting.
Following are complete details of percentage of boundaries and sixes blundered in each match during the just-concluded triangular tournament:
Total %of Total %of
Date Venue Countries Fours Sixes 4's&6's Countries Fours Sixes 4's&6's
Jan 23 Bloemfontein SA(270/4/50) 19 - 28.00 Ind(231/47.4) 14 2 29.00
Jan 25 Conturion Zimb(211/48.5) 17 - 32.00 SA(212-5/46.1)10 2 24.53
Jan 27 Paarl Zimb(236-8/50) 16 3 35.00 IND(236/49.5) 10 2 22.00
Jan 29 Capetown Zimb(226-6/50) 19 2 38.94 SA(229-5/47) 20 - 34.93
Jan 31 Johan'burg Zimb(256-8/50) 21 1 35.00 SA(257-6/48.3)21 1 35.02
Feb 2 Port El'beth IND(179-9/50) 9 3 30.17 SA(180-4/45.1)15 1 37.00
Feb 4 East London IND(232-5/50) 18 1 33.62 SA(236-4/49.2)19 - 32.00
Feb 7 Centurion IND(216/48.4) 10 4 30.00 Zim(171-7/33.4)8 3 29.24
Feb 9 Benoni Zimb(240-8/50) 8 2 18.33 IND(241-4/39.2)11 3 25.73
Feb 13 Durban SA(278-8/50) 22 1 33.81 IND(234/39.2) 16 2 32.48
Summary: Matches Total runs Fours Sixes %of 4's&6's Runs Runs via 4's
per & 6's per
match match
South 7 1662 126 5 32.00 237.43 76.29
Africa
Zimbabwe 6 1340 89 11 31.00 223.33 70.33
India 7 1569 88 17 29.00 224.14 64.86
Again, these are figures that tell a tale - it would be interesting to know whether the team management, now armed with its own laptop, does such computations and, having done them, learns the lessons that there are to be learnt from the results?