Statistical highlights
Mohandas Menon
4th match: Coca Cola Tri series in Zimbabwe
India vs West Indies
This was the first LOI match to be played on Zimbabwean soil not
involving the home team since the first played in October 1992. Since then
this was the 45th match to be played in Zimbabwe.
The last occasion India played the West Indies was at Toronto in the DMC
Cup series on 14-9-1999. Just for the record, since then India has played in
50 matches, while the West Indies in 46 matches, without playing each other.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul became the 17th West Indian and the 113th player
to appear in 100 LOI matches.
Harvinder Singh was making a comeback to the Indian side after missing
110 matches in between. He last appeared in a LOI match against Australia at
Sharjah on 22-4-1998. Only nine players in LOI history have missed more
matches before a comeback than Harvinder. New Zealand off-spinner Grant
Bradburn recently made a comeback after missing a record 184 matches. Among
the Indians only Ashish Kapoor (157 matches between 1996 to 2000) and Robin
Singh (146 between 1989 to 1996) have missed more matches for India.
Meanwhile Debasis Mohanty too made a small comeback after missing 35
matches in row since his last against Australia at Adelaide on 26-1-2000.
Mohanty's bowling figures of 10-1-18-3 (r/o: 1.8) equals the best
economical bowling by an Indian pace bowler (bowling his full quota of
overs) against the West Indies in LOIs. He equals Kapil Dev's figures of
10-3-18-2 in the Hero Cup final at Calcutta on 27-11-1993. However the best
performance by an Indian bowler against the West Indies still remains with
off-spinner Nikhil Chopra at Toronto on 11-9-1999 - his figures were of
10-3-17-2.
The unbeaten 53 by Ridley Jacobs equals the best batting performance by a
West Indian batsman wicket-keeper against India. Jeffery Dujon had made an
identical score at Berbice on 29-3-1983. Incidentally this was the third
fifty by a West Indian keeper against India. Jimmy Adams, while keeping
wickets at Jaipur on 11-11-1994 had made an even 50.
Incidentally Jacobs became the only second visiting wicket-keeper to
score a fifty in a LOI match in Zimbabwe. Sri Lankan Romesh Kaluwitharana
has done it on two occasions - 99 at Harare on 18-12-1999 and 54 at Bulawayo
on 11-12-1999 - both against Zimbabwe.
Jacobs' unbeaten 53 was the highest individual score made by a number
seven batsman on Zimbabwe soil. In fact the only other fifty in this
position in Zimbabwe has come from the Zimbabwean all-rounder Gary Crocker
who made 50, also against India at Harare on 25-10-1992, which incidentally
was Zimbabwe's first home match.
Playing in his 271st match of his career, Tendulkar extended his 'man of
the match' award record to 40, which is by far the maximum received by any
other player in LOI history. He now has eight such awards against Zimbabwe
in 31 matches.
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