Statistical highlights

Mohandas Menon

6th match: Coca Cola Tri series in Zimbabwe

India vs West Indies

  Carl Hooper (24, when on 1) became the third West Indian and the 16th batsman in LOI history to reach 1000 runs against India. He now has 1023 runs in 35 matches.

  Harvinder Singh (65 runs in 10 overs) has conceded the second most runs by a visiting bowler in a LOI match in Zimbabwe. Bangladesh's teenage pace bowler Mohammad Sharif at Bulawayo on 11-4-2001 had conceded the maximum of 77 runs in 10 overs. Incidentally Harvinder has conceded the sixth maximum runs by a bowler in a LOI match in Zimbabwe.

  The partnership in this match between Ganguly and Tendulkar for the first wicket has made them the most durable in LOI history. The pair has opened the Indian innings on 103 occasions since their first together against South Africa at Jaipur on 23-10-1996. The pair had then begun their long durable partnership with a hundred-plus stand of 126 runs. The Indian pair went ahead of former West Indian openers Desmond Haynes and Gordon Greenidge who have opened the innings on 102 occasions from 1979 to 1991.

  The 133 run partnership between Ganguly and Tendulkar was the best for the first wicket by any team on Zimbabwe soil. The previous best was the 124 by Zimbabwe's Flower brothers - Grant and Andy - against New Zealand at this same ground on 8-11-1992. The only other 100-plus partnership for the first wicket in Zimbabwe came in the first match of this series also at Harare, when the West Indian pair of Daren Ganga and Chris Gayle put on 113 against the home team on 23-6-2001. Interestingly, India's best in Zimbabwe was the 44 between Ganguly and Tendulkar against the home team at Bulwayo on 27-9-1998.

  Tendulkar (122 not out, when on 76) became the first Indian (Azhar has 998 runs) and the ninth batsman in LOI history to score over 1000 runs against West Indies. The list includes five Pakistanis and three Australians. For the record, Javed Miandad has the maximum runs - 1930 in 64 matches. Tendulkar in 28 matches has an aggregate of 1046 runs against the West Indies.

  Tendulkar, who extended his record career LOI hundreds to 29 in 272 matches, became the highest individual scorer for India against the West Indies, when he bettered the previous best of 114 not out by Navjot Singh Sidhu at Visakhapatnam on 7-11-1994.

  Tendulkar, who extended his man of the match awards to 41, now has six such awards - the maximum by any player against the West Indies. Pakistani all-rounder Imran Khan had five awards in 49 matches.

  India has reached the final of a three-or-more nation tournament on 33 occasions. They have won 17 titles, and on16 occasions they were runner-up. Interestingly India has now lost its last six final matches. India's last tournament win came in November 1998 at Sharjah.

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