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- Daryl Harper was officiating in his 100th ODI. His first ODI was the NZ v SA match in the Benson & Hedges World Series at Perth on January 14, 1994. He became the seventh umpire to perform this feat after David Shepherd, Rudi Koertzen, Steve Bucknor,Darrel Hair, Dave Orchard and Steve Dunne.
- Chamunorwa Justice Chibhabha and Jeetan Patel made their ODI debuts. They became the 88th and 142nd players to represent Zimbabwe and New Zealand respectively in ODIs.
- The eighth-wicket partnership of 79 runs between Daniel Vettori and Scott Styris is New Zealand's best for this wicket against all countries. This obliterates the 72-run partnership between Chris Harris and Vettori against Australia at Melbourne in January 2002 in the VB series. Incidentally, the previous highest eighth wicket partnership for New Zealand against Zimbabwe was 58, between Craig McMillan and Scott Styris, at Auckland on January 7, 2001.
- The above partnership is also the highest for the eighth wicket on Zimbabwean soil, surpassing the 74 between Andy Flower and Heath Streak for Zimbabwe against England, at Harare in January 1997.
- Chibhabha became the 13th Zimbabwean and 150th player overall to score a duck on his debut innings.
- Andy Blignaut (50 + 4/46) provided the 34th instance of a player performing the all-round feat of scoring a fifty and taking four wickets in the same match. He became only the fourth Zimbabwean to perform this feat after Duncan Fletcher, Gary Crocker and Neil Johnson.
- Shane Bond (4/17) took four wickets for the second successive match. He had returned the figures of 6/19 against India at Bulawayo on August 26. This was the second instance of Bond of capturing four-wicket hauls in successive games. He had performed a similar feat in the 2001-02 season: 4/37 against South Africa at Brisbane on January 19, 2002 , followed by 5/25 against Australia at Adelaide on January 26, 2002 in the VB Series.
- Bond also became only the fifth bowler in ODIs and first New Zealander to perform the feat of claiming four-wickets in two successive games on more than one occasion. Others to do so are: Pakistan's Waqar Younis (4 times), Australia's Shane Warne (thrice), Pakistan's Saqlain Mushtaq and Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan.
- This was the seventh instance that Bond took four wickets in a match. He now holds the record of taking most four-fors by a Kiwi bowler, displacing Richard Hadlee (who had six four-wicket hauls after playing in 55 more games than Bond) to second position.
- Bond has now taken his tally of wickets to 61 after 30 games, which is the highest for any bowler in ODIs after this many games. The previous record was of 58 wickets jointly held by Australia's Dennis Lillee and India's Ajit Agarkar.
- Zimbabwe have now lost nine matches in succession since January 26, 2005 -- 3 against Bangladesh, 3 against South Africa, 2 against New Zealand and one against India.
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