Statistical highlights
England v West Indies
- The second-wicket partnership of 174 runs between Chris Gayle and Dwayne Bravo in the Champions Trophy match just failed to beat the second-wicket record stand for the West Indies against England. Gayle and Ramnaresh Sarwan had added 187 at Lord's in 2004.
- Chris Gayle (101) scored his second hundred against England in 13 matches and 14th of his career in 149 matches.
- Six of Gayle's hundreds have come in LOST matches -- most for a West Indian. Carl Hooper and Brian Lara are joint-second with three hundreds apiece.
- In all ODIs, only India's Sachin Tendulkar (11) has scored more hundreds in lost matches than Gayle. England's opener Marcus Trescothick also has a tally of six hundreds in lost matches, while Zimbabwean Alistair Campbell and South African Herschelle Gibbs have seen their respective sides losing games five times in matches where they scored a hundred.
- Dwayne Bravo (112*) scored his maiden hundred in his 54th match. His previous highest was an unbeaten 62 against India at Port-of-Spain on 28-05-2006.
- Gayle performed the all-round feat of scoring a hundred and capturing three wickets in the same match for the third time in his career. The other such instances were against Zimbabwe (112* & 4-24) at Harare in 2003-04 and against England (132* & 3-57) at Lord's in 2004.
- Gayle's three instances of scoring a hundred and taking three wickets in the same match are the most by any player in ODI history. Gayle was earlier at level with Viv Richards, Sanath Jayasuriya, Nathan Astle and Shoaib Malik with two such instances.
- Playing for the first time against the West Indies Kevin Pietersen scored an unbeaten 90. His innings is now the highest by an England player on his debut innings against the West Indies, surpassing Derek Randall's 88 at Lord's in 1976.
- The West Indies' loss provided the 14th instance of a side losing a match in which its two batsmen scored hundreds. It was the first such instance for West Indies.
- By achieving the target, England registered its biggest successful chase against West Indies. They had scored 265-3 to beat the West Indies in a 55-over game at Lord's in 1991.
- It was also England's second biggest successful chase against any country in a 50-over game after the 306-5 against Pakistan at Karachi in 2000-01.
- Interestingly nine of last ten games between England and West Indies have won by side batting second! In one match no result was possible because of weather-gods.
- Gayle provided only the second instance in ICC Champions Trophy's history of a player from losing side winning man of the match award. Zimbabwe's E Chigumbura is the only other player to do so. Playing against Sri Lanka at the Oval in 2004 Chigumbura won the award for his all-round performance of 57 runs and 3-37 despite his side losing the match by 4 wickets.
- England's win means that West Indies will finish second in the Group A (irrespective of what is the outcome of India-Australia match) and will play South Africa in the second semifinal at Jaipur on November 2.
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