4th Match, India v West Indies, Coca Cola Cup, Statistical Highlights

• It 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

Table ?B? : 50 ?away? wickets in least balls by Indian Bowlers

• 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.