- It was the 1736th ODI in cricket history.
- It was India’s 470th and New Zealand’s 381st match – 59th betweenthese two sides. The record now reads : New Zealand 26, India 30,abandoned 3.
- Umpires DN Pathirana and G Silva were officiating in their 11th andeighth match respectively.
- Rahul Dravid was playing his 150th match. He became 56th playeroverall and tenth Indian to do so.
- Zaheer Khan became second Indian after Debabis Mohanty to claim awicket off the first ball of the match when he trapped MatthewSinclair LBW. Mohanty had West Indian makeshift opener Ridley Jacobscaught by Nikhil Chopra at Singapore (Kallang) on September 5,1999. Inaddition there have been four instances of an Indian bowler capturinga wicket off the first ball of the opponent’s innings (second inningsof the match).
- Nathan Astle (117) scored his tenth hundred in ODIs in his 135thmatch. The hundred was Astle’s third against India which equals thetally of Chris Cairns for New Zealand.
- The hundred was fifth for Astle in his 51st floodlit matchonly oneless than all other Kiwi batsmen have scored in floodlit matches.Others with hundred in floodlit matches for New Zealand are StephenFleming (2), Matthew Sinclair (2), Chris Harris (1) and Chris Cairns(1).
- Astle, on 26,completed his 2000 runs in `away’ matches for NewZealand. At the end of this match Astle has a tally of 2091 runs from77 matches. He became 62nd batsman in all and fifth New Zealanderafter Martin Crowe (2820 runs in 86 matches), John Wright (2752 in106),Stephen Fleming (2323 in 89) and Adam Parore (2032 in 90) to doso. Incidentally India’s Sachin Tendulkar with 6712 runs from 183appearances holds the record of aggregating most runs in a career in`away’ matches.
- India’s total (127) was its second lowest in all matches against NewZealand after the 113 (in 44.2 overs) at Perth on January 18,1986.
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India’s total was the joint sixth lowest total to include anindividual fifty (Laxman- 60). It was also the second lowest suchtotal for India. The accompanying table has the details :
Total (Overs) | Batsman (Score) | Countries | Venue | Date |
101 (26.5) | HH Gibbs (59*) | SA v Pak | Sharjah | 28-03-2000 |
117 (41.3) | Inzamam-ul-Haq (51*) | Pak v WI | Kingston | 12-04-2000 |
123 (40.3) | NC Johnson (54) | Zim v Pak | The Oval | 11-06-1999 |
125 (48.2) | IT Botham (60) | Eng v WI | Kingstown | 04-02-1981 |
125 (45) | SC Ganguly (50) | Ind v Pak | Sharjah | 16-04-1999 |
126 (37.2) | MA Taylor (50) | Aus v NZ | Wellington | 24-03-1993 |
127 (27.2) | EH Mattis (62) | WI v Eng | Kingstown | 04-02-1981 |
127 (31.3) | CJ Nevin (50) | NZ v Pak | Sharjah | 15-04-2001 |
127 (40.1) | DI Gower (53) | Eng v NZ | Christchurch | 26-02-1983 |
127 (41.1) | VVS Laxman (60) | Ind v NZ | Colombo RPS | 20-07-2001 |
- Laxman’s 60 represented 47.24% of India’s total – the fourth maximum byany Indian batsman in a completed innings.The details :
Batsman | % | Score | Total | Vs | Venue | Date |
AD Jadeja | 48.78 | 100* | 205 | Aus | The Oval | 04-06-1999 |
SC Ganguly | 47.48 | 113 | 238 | SL | Colombo RPS | 20-08-1997 |
NS Sidhu | 47.24 | 94 | 199 | SL | Singapore | 03-04-1996 |
VVS Laxman | 47.24 | 60 | 127 | NZ | Colombo RPS | 20-07-2001 |
M Azharuddin | 46.15 | 90 | 195 | SA | Calcutta | 24-11-1993 |
NS Sidhu | 45.63 | 73 | 160 | NZ | Napier | 16-02-1995 |
SR Tendulkar | 45.37 | 93 | 205 | SL | Dhaka | 01-06-2000 |
AD Jadeja | 45.19 | 61 | 135 | Pak | Jaipur | 24-03-1999 |
Kapil Dev | 45.08 | 87 | 193 | WI | Nagpur | 08-12-1987 |
DB Vengsarkar | 44.00 | 77 | 175 | Aus | Trivandrum | 01-10-1984 |
M Prabhakar | 43.88 | 86 | 196 | SL | Colombo RPS | 12-08-1993 |
M Amarnath | 43.04 | 34* | 79 | Pak | Sialkot | 13-10-1978 |
SM Gavaskar | 40.65 | 63 | 155 | Pak | Sharjah | 17-11-1985 |
SR Tendulkar | 40.43 | 93 | 230 | Pak | Hobart | 21-01-2000 |
SR Tendulkar | 40.31 | 77 | 191 | WI | Brisbane | 11-01-1992 |
SC Ganguly | 40.00 | 50 | 125 | Pak | Sharjah | 16-04-1999 |
- Chris Harris by holding four catches equalled the record of mostcatches by a fielder in a match for New Zealand. Ken Rutherford hadtaken four catches also against India at Napier on February 16,1995.Harris also became 14th fielder in ODIs to take four catches in amatch as a fielder with South African Jonty Rhodes being alone inholding as many as five.
- India suffered its third worst defeat against New Zealand in terms ofmargin of runs. New Zealand had beaten India by 108 runs at Dunedin onMarch 1,1990 and by 99 runs at Nagpur on November 26,1995.
- Nathan Astle was winning his 17th Man of the Match award. He is nowonly three away of Martin Crowe’s New Zealand record of 20 MoM awards.
