Statistical highlights

Mohandas Menon

4th match: Coca Cola Tri series in Zimbabwe

India vs West Indies

  This was the first LOI match to be played on Zimbabwean soil not involving the home team since the first played in October 1992. Since then this was the 45th match to be played in Zimbabwe.

  The last occasion India played the West Indies was at Toronto in the DMC Cup series on 14-9-1999. Just for the record, since then India has played in 50 matches, while the West Indies in 46 matches, without playing each other.

  Shivnarine Chanderpaul became the 17th West Indian and the 113th player to appear in 100 LOI matches.

  Harvinder Singh was making a comeback to the Indian side after missing 110 matches in between. He last appeared in a LOI match against Australia at Sharjah on 22-4-1998. Only nine players in LOI history have missed more matches before a comeback than Harvinder. New Zealand off-spinner Grant Bradburn recently made a comeback after missing a record 184 matches. Among the Indians only Ashish Kapoor (157 matches between 1996 to 2000) and Robin Singh (146 between 1989 to 1996) have missed more matches for India.

  Meanwhile Debasis Mohanty too made a small comeback after missing 35 matches in row since his last against Australia at Adelaide on 26-1-2000.

  Mohanty's bowling figures of 10-1-18-3 (r/o: 1.8) equals the best economical bowling by an Indian pace bowler (bowling his full quota of overs) against the West Indies in LOIs. He equals Kapil Dev's figures of 10-3-18-2 in the Hero Cup final at Calcutta on 27-11-1993. However the best performance by an Indian bowler against the West Indies still remains with off-spinner Nikhil Chopra at Toronto on 11-9-1999 - his figures were of 10-3-17-2.

  The unbeaten 53 by Ridley Jacobs equals the best batting performance by a West Indian batsman wicket-keeper against India. Jeffery Dujon had made an identical score at Berbice on 29-3-1983. Incidentally this was the third fifty by a West Indian keeper against India. Jimmy Adams, while keeping wickets at Jaipur on 11-11-1994 had made an even 50.

  Incidentally Jacobs became the only second visiting wicket-keeper to score a fifty in a LOI match in Zimbabwe. Sri Lankan Romesh Kaluwitharana has done it on two occasions - 99 at Harare on 18-12-1999 and 54 at Bulawayo on 11-12-1999 - both against Zimbabwe.

  Jacobs' unbeaten 53 was the highest individual score made by a number seven batsman on Zimbabwe soil. In fact the only other fifty in this position in Zimbabwe has come from the Zimbabwean all-rounder Gary Crocker who made 50, also against India at Harare on 25-10-1992, which incidentally was Zimbabwe's first home match.

  Playing in his 271st match of his career, Tendulkar extended his 'man of the match' award record to 40, which is by far the maximum received by any other player in LOI history. He now has eight such awards against Zimbabwe in 31 matches.

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