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da lvbet： Rajneesh Gupta03-Aug-2001It was the 1743rd ODI in cricket history.It was India’s 475th and New Zealand’s 385th match and 61st betweenthese two sides. The record now reads : India 31, New Zealand27,abandoned 3.Umpires LV Jayasundara and TH Wijewardene were officiating in theirseventh and sixth match respectively.The 138 run-partnership between Nathan Astle and Stephen Fleming wasNew Zealand’s best for the second wicket against India in all matches.This obliterated the previous best of 130 between Bruce Edgar andMartin Crowe at Brisbane on January 11,1986.The partnership was also New Zealand’s second highest for the secondwicket in all matches after the 141 run-partnership between MatthewBell and Matthew Sinclair against Sri Lanka at Sharjah on April17,2001.This was the 20th century partnership in which Astle was featuring.His break-up of century stands : 6 for the first wicket, 7 for thesecond wicket, 6 for the third and one for the fourth wicket. Astlebecame the first New Zealander to get involved in 20 centurypartnerships. Incidentally, the ODI record is in the name of India’sSachin Tendulkar who has featured in 47 century partnerships.Nathan Astle (101) recorded his 11th ODI hundred – his fourth againstIndia. He has now scored maximum centuries for New Zealand againstIndia. Astle was previously level with Chris Cairns with threecenturies.Adam Parore was recording his third consecutive duck. He became thefourth New Zealander to suffer this fate after Tony Blain (in 1986),Danny Morrison (in 1990) and Richard DeGroen (in 1994). Parore is nowin line to equal the ODI record of four consecutive ducks, hithertoshared by West Indian Gus Logie, Sri Lankan Pramodya Wickremasinghe,Zimbabwean Henry Olonga and Englishman Craig White.This was also the second time Parore aggregated three ducks in aseries (or tournament). Parore had also recorded three ducks in thefive match series against Pakistan in 2000-01. Parore became the thirdbatsman to aggregate three ducks in a series on two occasions aftertwo Sri Lankans Romesh Kaluwitharana and Arjuna Ranatunga.Virender Shewag (100) reached his fifty off just 29 balls – thefastest fifty for India against New Zealand. He bettered Kapil Dev andAjay Sharma’s record by one ball. They had scored 54* at Sydney onMarch 5,1985 and 52* at Indore on December 15,1988 respectively.Shewag needed only 69 balls to score his maiden ODI hundred. Hishundred was the second fastest for India (after Mohammad Azharuddin’s62-ball hundred against New Zealand) and seventh fastest in all ODIs.The details :
Fastest hundreds in ODIs :
Balls
Batsman
Opponents
Venue
Date
37
Shahid Afridi (102)
Pak v SL
Nairobi Gym
04-10-1996
45
BC Lara (117)
WI v BD
Dhaka
09-10-1999
48
ST Jayasuriya (134)
SL v Pak
Singapore
02-04-1996
62
M Azharuddin (108*)
Ind v NZ
Baroda
17-12-1988
67
Basit Ali (127*)
Pak v WI
Sharjah
05-11-1993
68
Ijaz Ahmed (139*)
Pak v Ind
Lahore
02-10-1997
69
V Shewag (100)
v NZ
Colombo SSC
02-08-2001
71
SR Tendulkar (124*)
Ind v Zim
Sharjah
13-11-1998
72
Zaheer Abbas (118)
Pak v Ind
Multan
17-12-1982
72
IVA Richards (149)
WI v Ind
Jamshedpur
07-12-1983
72
ST Jayasuriya (108)
SL v BD
Colombo SSC
22-07-1997
72
RL Powell (124)
WI v Ind
Singapore
08-09-1999
73
Javed Miandad (119*)
Pak v Ind
Lahore
31-12-1982
75
IVA Richards (110*)
WI v Ind
Rajkot
05-01-1988
75
CL Cairns (115)
NZ v Ind
Christchurch
19-01-1999
75
CD McMillan (104*)
NZ v Pak
Christchurch
25-02-2001
Shewag’s innings included 20 shots to the fence – 19 fours and a six,giving him a whopping boundary percentage of 82.00 .A detailed studyinto all 554 ODI hundreds scored till date reveals the fact thatShewag’s percentage is the fourth highest in the game. This is easilythe best performance by an Indian. Sachin Tendulkar had scored 67.74runs in boundaries during his unbeaten knock of 124* against Zimbabweat Sharjah on November 13,1998. The following table has the details :Highest percentage of boundary shots :
(Minimum Qualification : 100 runs)
%
Runs
Batsman
Countries
Venue
Date
88.23
90/102
Shahid Afridi
Pak v SL
Nairobi Gym
04-10-1996
82.08
110/134
ST Jayasuriya
SL v Pak
Singapore
02-04-1996
82.05
96/117
BC Lara
WI v BD
Dhaka
09-10-1999
82.00
82/100
V Shewag
Ind v NZ
Colombo SSC
02-08-2001
75.43
86/114*
Ijaz Ahmed
Pak v SA
Durban
17-12-1994
74.00
74/100*
RS Kaluwitharana
SL v Ken
Nairobi Gym
28-09-1996
74.00
74/100
PA Wallace
WI v SA
Dhaka
01-11-1998
72.26
86/119*
IVA Richards
WI v Eng
Scarborough
26-08-1976
Saurav Ganguly (64) scored his 40th fifty (excluding 16 hundreds) inhis 173rd match. He became the third Indian after Mohammad Azharuddin(58) and Sachin Tendulkar (53) and 18th batsman in the game’s historyto reach this milestone. Incidentally Pakistan’s Inzamam-ul-Haq,with60 fifties, holds the ODI record.Shewag was winning his second Man of the Match award.
