It was the 1731st ODI in cricket history
Rajneesh Gupta01-Jul-2001It was the 1731st ODI in cricket history.It was India’s 467th and West Indies’ 426th match.It was the 64th match between these two sides. The record now reads:India 22,West Indies 40,tied one and abandoned one.Umpires C Coventry and QJ Goosen were officiating in their third andeighth match respectively.Harvinder Singh was making a comeback into Indian side after more thantwo years. He had last appeared for India against Australia at Sharjahon April 22,1998 thus missing 110 matches in between. Only AshishKapoor (157) and Robin Singh (146) have missed more matches in betweentwo consecutive appearances for India than Harvinder. Harvinder’s newball partner Debasis Mohanty was also making a comeback into Indianside after missing 35 matches.Shivnarine Chanderpaul was playing his 100th match. He became 17thWest Indian and 113th player overall to do so.Mohanty, at the end of this match, has a tally of 50 wickets from 35games in `away’ matches with an average of 25.18 and strike rate of30.92 . Interestingly he has taken only 6 wickets in 7 matches at homesoil with an average of 49.00 and strike rate of 55.00 !!Mohanty thus became the 11th Indian to aggregate 50 wickets in acareer in `away’ matches. Only Manoj Prabhakar (33) and Ajit Agarkar(33) have completed 50 wickets on foreign soil in lesser matches thanMohanty. However Mohanty now holds the Indian record of being thefastest to capture 50 wickets on foreign soil (1546 till the end ofthis match) The previous record for India was held by Manoj Prabhakarwho had bowled 1700 balls for his 50 wickets. The table `A’ givesdetails of Indian bowlers with most wickets in `away’ matches , whiletable `B’ lists Indian bowlers in terms of ball required.Table `A’ : Most `away’ wickets by Indian Bowlers
Wkts
Bowler
M
Balls
Runs
Ave
Best
SR
RpO
5W
171
J Srinath
124
6529
4844
28.33
5/23
38.18
4.45
1
168
A Kumble
137
7235
5024
29.90
5/33
43.07
4.17
1
153
N Kapil Dev
140
7137
4228
27.63
5/43
46.65
3.55
1
129
BKV Prasad
113
5718
4395
34.07
5/27
44.33
4.61
1
92
M Prabhakar
65
3244
2209
24.01
4/25
35.26
4.09
0
77
RJ Shastri
93
4281
2875
37.34
5/15
55.60
4.03
1
70
AB Agarkar
49
2648
2250
32.14
4/35
37.83
5.10
0
59
RMH Binny
50
2233
1560
26.44
4/29
37.85
4.19
0
52
SR Tendulkar
181
3510
2863
55.06
4/34
67.50
4.89
0
51
S Madan Lal
39
1946
1220
23.92
4/20
38.16
3.76
0
50
DS Mohanty
35
1546
1259
25.18
4/56
30.92
4.89
0
Table ?B? : 50 ?away? wickets in least balls by Indian Bowlers
Bowler
Mts
Balls
Runs
Ave
SR
RpO
Vs
Venue
Date
DS Mohanty
35
1546
1259
25.18
30.92
4.89
WI
Bulawayo
30-06-2001
M Prabhakar
33
1700
1077
21.54
34.00
3.80
WI
Melbourne
16-01-1992
AB Agarkar
33
1757
1538
30.76
35.14
5.25
Pak
Sharjah
23-03-2000
RMH Binny
40
1774
1255
25.10
35.48
4.24
NZ
Adelaide
25-01-1986
S Madan Lal
38
1892
1195
23.90
37.84
3.79
WI
Sharjah
30-11-1986
J Srinath
38
1963
1406
28.12
39.26
4.30
Pak
Sharjah
22-04-1994
BKV Prasad
40
2025
1605
32.10
40.50
4.76
Pak
Colombo SSC
20-07-1997
N Kapil Dev
41
2240
1336
26.20
43.92
3.58
Pak
Melbourne
10-03-1985
A Kumble
42
2262
1463
28.69
44.35
3.88
Pak
Sharjah
15-04-1996
RJ Shastri
52
2494
1560
30.59
48.90
3.75
SL
Sharjah
25-03-1988
SR Tendulkar
173
3336
2716
54.32
66.72
4.88
NZ
Nairobi Gym
15-10-2000
Just for the record, Pakistan’s Shoaib Akhtar has taken 50 `away’wickets in least balls ?1283 to be exact. Shoaib also shares therecord of being the fastest with West Indian Andy Roberts in terms ofleast matches. Both Shoaib and Roberts captured their 50th wicket in27th match.Mohanty’s figures of 10-1-18-3 (RpO 1.80) equalled the most economicalfigures by an Indian medium pace bowler in a ten over spell againstWest Indies. He equalled India’s Kapil Dev’s figures of 10-3-18-2 inthe Hero Cup final at Calcutta on November 27,1993.Ridley Jacobs (53* and three dismissals) was performing the allroundfeat of scoring 50 runs and effecting three dismissals in the samematch for the third time in his career. The other such occasions forhim came against New Zealand. Jacobs made 80* and held 5 catches atSouthampton on May 24,1999.He followed it up with 65 runs and threecatches at Auckland on January 2,2000.Sachin Tendulkar won his 40th Man of the Match award in 271st match.This was also his fifth award against West Indies which equalsPakistan’s Imran Khan’s record of most award against West Indies.