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6th ODI: Sri Lanka v India, Statistical highlights (30 August 1999)
30 August 1999
6th ODI: Sri Lanka v India, Statistical highlights
Rajneesh Gupta
- It was the 62nd match between the two sides.India has won
34,Sri Lanka 23,while 5 match were abandoned.
- Umpires G.Silva and EKG Wijewardene were both making their
ODI umpiring debut.
- It was India's first win over Sri Lanka on Sri Lankan soil
under Tendulkar's captaincy.
- Tendulkar scored his 23rd hundred in 221st match.It was his
fifth hundred against SriLanka.Now only Pakistan's Saeed
Anwar has scored more hundreds (6) against Sri Lanka.
- Tendulkar has now scored a hundred in every 9.60 matches.All
other Indians (considering only those who have scored at
least one hundred in a career) have scored 53 hundreds in
a total of 2189 matches together at a rate of a hundred in
every 41.30 matches
- It was Tendulkar's fifth hundred as captain.He has now
scored the most hundreds as captain than anyone else.He was
previously at level with fellow countryman Mohammad Azharuddin
and Sri Lanka's Arjuna Ranatunga with four hundreds.
- It was also Tendulkar's highest score as captain. His previous
best was 117 against New Zealand at Bangalore on 14 May 1997.
- Saurav Ganguly,on 23,completed his 1000 runs in ODIs in
1999.He was playing his 25th match.Ganguly thus became fourth
batsman to complete 1000 runs in the calendar year 1999 after
Australia's Mark Waugh (1289 runs in 33 matches) and Adam
Gilchrist (1160 runs in 33 matches) and fellow Indian Rahul
Dravid (1159 runs in 27 matches)
- Ganguly has now aggregated more than 1000 runs in a calendar
year on three occasions-1338 runs (@ 41.81) in 38 matches in
1997,1331 runs (@ 41.50) in 36 matches in 1998.......and now
1062 runs (@ 44.25) in 25 matches in 1999.Only fellow Indian
Sachin Tendulkar has aggregated 1000 runs in a calendar year
on more occasions (4) than Ganguly.
- Ganguly,on 84,completed his 4000 runs in ODIs.He became fifth
Indian and 34th batsman in the world to reach this landmark.
By doing so in his 110th match and 105th innings,Ganguly now
holds the Indian record of completing 4000 runs in least no.
of innings and matches.The previous record in terms ofinnings
was held by Navjot Sidhu,taking 109 innings (and 116 matches)
o achieve this landmark,while Sachin Tendulkar with 115 matches
(and 112 innings) was the previous record holder in terms of least
matches. Incidentally WestIndian Viv Richards holds the world record
of completing 4000 runs in least no.of matches and innings - 96 and
88 respectively.
- Sanath Jayasuriya,on 15,completed his 1000 runsin ODIs against
India.He became fourth Sri Lankan (after Aravinda DeSilva, Arjuna Ranatunga
and Roshan Mahanama) and 13th batsman to do so.
The accompanying table has the details :
Batsman Country Mts Inns NO Runs Hs Ave. 100 50
Saeed Anwar Pak 44 42 2 1739 194 43.47 3 8
PA de Silva SL 54 51 5 1718 105 37.34 3 13
Salim Malik Pak 52 51 6 1535 102 34.11 2 8
A Ranatunga SL 56 51 8 1455 131* 33.83 1 7
Ijaz Ahmed Pak 49 47 8 1386 139* 35.53 2 4
DL Haynes WI 36 36 4 1357 152* 42.40 2 9
Inzamam-ul-Haq Pak 37 34 6 1226 107 43.78 1 8
DC Boon Aus 29 29 3 1212 111 46.61 2 7
CG Greenidge WI 24 23 3 1181 117 59.05 3 8
Javed Miandad Pak 35 34 11 1175 119* 51.08 3 6
RS Mahanama SL 45 40 6 1152 98 33.88 0 11
AR Border Aus 38 35 9 1104 105* 42.46 1 7
ST Jayasuriya SL 38 36 3 1056 151* 32.00 2 7
- Robin Singh won MoM award for the third time in his career (this
includes a joint award with Zimbabwean Eddo Brandes).The last
time Robin Singh won a MoM award was also against SriLanka at
Guwahati on 22-12-1997.
Contributed by: Rajneesh Gupta (rgcricket@hotmail.com)
Source :: Rajneesh Gupta
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