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Rajneesh Gupta28-Jun-2001It was the 1730th ODI in cricket history.It was India’s 466th and Zimbabwe’s 186th match.It was the 36th match between these two sides. The record now reads :India 28,Zimbabwe 6,tied two.It was the seventh match between these two sides in Zimbabwe. Therecord now reads : India 5, Zimbabwe 2.Umpires MA Esat and Jeff Fenwick were officiating in their fifth andthird match respectively.Guy Whittall, playing in his 133rd match, became eighth player tocaptain Zimbabwe in a One-Day International match. Only Grant Flowerhas captained Zimbabwe after playing in more matches than Whittall.Surprisingly Zimbabwe has now used three captains in three matches ofthis tournament. Grant Flower was the in charge in the opening matchagainst West Indies on June 23 and Heath Streak took upon the burdenin the match against India on June 24.Guy Whittall became second Zimbabwean to score a fifty on captaincydebut after Duncan Fletcher who made 69* against Australia atNottingham on June 9,1983. Whittall also became 26th player in all toscore a 50 plus score on captaincy debut. Of these four went on toreach three figure mark. They are New Zealander Glenn Turner (171* vEast Africa at Birmingham on June 7,1975), West Indian RichieRichardson (106* v Pakistan at Sharjah on October 7,1991) ,India’sSachin Tendulkar (110 v Sri Lanka at Colombo RPS on August 8,1996) andSri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya (102 v Zimbabwe at Colombo SSC onJanuary 6,1998).Zaheer Khan (4-42) recorded the best figures by an Indian onZimbabwean soil. The previous best was the 3-36 by Ajit Agarkar in thelast match.This also equaled Zaheer’s best performance. He hadreturned identical figures against Zimbabwe at Sharjah on October26,2000.Saurav Ganguly when on 32,completed his 1000 runs against Zimbabwe. Hewas playing his 24th match match against Zimbabwe. Ganguly became onlythe second batsman in all ODIs to reach this landmark. The only otherbeing teammate Sachin Tendulkar. The following table lists leading runscorers in ODIs against Zimbabwe :
Batsman
Runs
For
M
Inn
NO
Ave
HS
100
50
0
SR Tendulkar
1242
Ind
30
29
5
51.75
146
5
4
0
SC Ganguly
1053
Ind
24
24
3
50.14
144
3
5
0
NJ Astle
826
NZ
20
20
2
45.89
120
2
4
1
PA de Silva
772
SL
15
15
3
64.33
127*
2
5
0
ME Waugh
704
Aus
13
12
5
100.57
106
3
4
0
ST Jayasuriya
660
SL
21
21
0
31.43
102
1
5
0
AD Jadeja
656
Ind
19
18
8
65.60
116*
1
4
2
RS Mahanama
635
SL
14
12
1
57.73
119*
2
4
0
RT Ponting
626
Aus
12
12
2
62.60
145
1
5
0
Inzamam-ul-Haq
619
Pak
17
17
3
44.21
116*
1
2
2
Saeed Anwar
599
Pak
13
13
2
54.45
103*
2
3
1
SP Fleming
581
NZ
20
19
4
38.73
96
0
5
1
MS Atapattu
511
SL
15
14
1
39.31
90
0
5
1
Grant Flower (4-44) was capturing four wickets for the second time inhis career. He had taken four for 32 against Kenya at Dhaka on March23,1999.Grant Flower’s performance in the match (45 runs,4 wickets and twocatches) was one among the best allround performances for Zimbabwe.The details :Player
Batting
Bowling
Fielding
Opponents
Venue
Date
DAG Fletcher
69*
4-42
0
Aus
Nottingham
09-06-1983
GJ Crocker
50
4-26
0
Ind
Harare
25-10-1992
NC Johnson
59
4-42
0
Ken
Taunton
15-05-1999
GJ Whittall
30
4-35
0
SL
Bulawayo Q.C.
12-12-1999
HH Streak
45
4-8
0
WI
Sydney
23-01-2001
GW Flower
45
4-44
2
Ind
Bulawayo Q.C.
27-06-2001
Rahul Dravid was winning his sixth Man of the Match award.