4th ODI highlights from Hyderabad
Mohandas Menon
** Murali Kartik, who has already appeared in four Test matches - all in the year 2000 - became the 144th player to make debut for India in ODIs. Incidentally, the last specialist left-arm spinner before Kartik to make debut in a one-dayer for India was Rahul Sanghvi in January 1998.
** Grant Flower (44) now has an aggregate of exactly 1000 runs against India. Playing in his 32nd match he joins teammates Alistair Campbell (1188 runs in 36 matches) and Andy Flower (1130 in 33 matches) to become the third Zimbabwean to reach this milestone. He also becomes the 19th batsman to achieve this feat against India. For the record, Pakistani Saeed Anwar has the maximum run aggregate of 1901 runs in 49 matches against India.
** Playing in his 33rd match, Andy Flower - 89 - registered his highest score against India by bettering his previous highest of 78 at Colombo (SSC) on 1-9-1996.
** Ajit Agarkar's 4-32 was the second best bowling performance at this venue after the 5-35 by pace bowler Manoj Prabhakar against Sri Lanka on 18-2-1994.
** Agarkar now has 35 wickets in 21 matches against Zimbabwe - the maximum by any Indian bowler against this team. He went past the previous highest tally of 32 wickets in 20 matches by Anil Kumble.
** The fourth wicket partnership of 76 runs between Rahul Dravid and Mohammad Kaif was the best for India at this venue obliterating its previous best of 47 between Sourav Ganguly and Dravid against South Africa on 17-10-1996.
** Playing in his seventh match Kaif (68) made his highest score of his career. He bettered his previous best of 56 made in the third match of this series at Kochi on 13-3-2002.
** The partnership of 94 between Kaif and Yuvraj Singh bettered India's previous best of 86 for the fifth wicket against Zimbabwe between Kaif and Sanjay Bangar at Kochi on 13-3-2002.
** This was the home team's fifth win at this venue out of the seven it has played here, while Zimbabwe have lost all its four matches at this ground - two against West Indies and one each against New Zealand and now India.
** Playing in his 29th match, Yuvraj Singh received his third man of the match of his career. His earlier such awards came against Australia on 7-10-2000, while scoring 84 in his debut innings (his 2nd match) and against Sri Lanka at Colombo (SSC) on 1-8-2001 for his unbeaten innings of 98 (19th match).
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