Rageb Aga and Maurice Ouma made their one-day international debut for Kenya. They became the 27th and 28th player to represent Kenya in ODIs.
Sourav Ganguly (90) recorded his fifth score in the nineties. With this, he equalled Krishnamachari Srikkanth's tally for India. Now, only Sachin Tendulkar (8) and Mohammad Azharuddin (7) are ahead of Ganguly.
This was Ganguly's second ninety in successive innings after the 90 against England at Lord's on 05-09-2004. Ganguly thus became the second Indian and the fifth batsman in ODI history to score back to back nineties after Pakistan's Zaheer Abbas (93 & 95* v West Indies at The Oval and Sialkot on 20-06-1979 and 05-12-1980 respectively), India's Krishnamachari Srikkanth (95 & 92 v Sri Lanka at Delhi and Bangalore on 15-09-1982 and 26-09-1982 respectively), New Zealand's Martin Crowe (91* & 91 v Australia at Wellington and Hamilton on 24-03-1993 and 27-03-1993) and Zimbabwe's Alistair Campbell (96 & 99* v New Zealand at Bulawayo QSC on 30-09-2000 and 01-10-2000).
Ganguly is having a dream run against Kenya. In his last four innings against Kenya, Ganguly's scores have been 111 (off 124 balls) at Paarl in 24-10-2001; 107 not out (off 120 balls) at Cape Town on 07-03-2003 and 111 not out (off 114 balls) at Durban on 20-03-2003 and 90 (off 124 balls) at Rose Bowl, Southampton.
Ganguly became the third highest run-scorer in ODI history overtaking Sri Lankan Sanath Jayasuriya (9,700 runs in 326 matches). At the end of this match Ganguly has aggregated 9,789 runs in 261 matches. Now only Sachin Tendulkar (13,415 runs in 339 matches) and Inzamam-ul-Haq (9,977 in 320 matches) are ahead of Ganguly.
The 161-run partnership between Ganguly and V V S Laxman is India's highest for second wicket against Kenya obliterating the unbroken 120-run partnership between Sachin Tendulkar and Ajay Jadeja at Calcutta on 31-05-1998.
The record of the highest run-scorer in the year 2004 changed hand twice in the match. Ganguly surpassed Matthew Hayden's tally of 803 runs when his score reached 72. However, his final aggregate of 822 runs in 2004 was later surpassed by Dravid, who took his run-aggregate in 2004 to 829 runs in 27 matches.
Mohammad Kaif (49 not out off 29 balls) had a strike rate of 168.97- second best of his career. His best performance in terms of strike rate had come against West Indies at Jamshedpur on 06-11-2002 when he scored unbeaten 31 off 18 balls at a strike rate of 172.22.
Dravid (30 not out off 16 balls, strike rate 187.50), like Kaif, recorded his second highest strike rate in a match after 50 not out off 22 balls (strike rate 227.27) against New Zealand at Hyderabad on 15-11-2003.
Ganguly has now top-scored for India in an innings on 54 occasions, which takes him ahead of Mohammad Azharuddin's tally of 53 such instances. Only Sachin Tendulkar, the world record holder, is ahead of Ganguly for India.
Maurice Ouma's innings of 49 (off 93 balls) is the third highest by a Kenyan batsman on debut after Steve Tikolo's 65 (v India at Cuttack on 18-02-1996) and Ravindu Shah's 52 (v Bangladesh at Hyderabad on 17-05-1998).
The 92-run stand for the seventh wicket between Ouma and Brijal Patel is the best by any team in the ICC Champions Trophy surpassing the previous best of 84 (unbroken) between India's Mohammad Kaif and Anil Kumble against Zimbabwe at Colombo RPS on 14-09-2002.
The 42 extras in the Kenyan innings were the third highest conceded by India. They had conceded 51 extras against Zimbabwe at Leicester on 19-05-1999 and 44 against Kenya at Bristol on 23-05-1999.
The 42 extras conceded by Indian bowlers and fielders constituted 21.88% of the Kenyan total. This is the highest percentage of extras in a team's innings score (150+ runs) against India. Interestingly, the previous record had also come in an India-Kenya match. At Durban on 20-02-2003 the extras contributed 21.79% of Kenyan total.
The 42 extras are also a record in the ICC Champions Trophy. The previous record was of 38 extras conceded by Holland against Sri Lanka at Colombo RPS on 16-09-2002.
India's 98-run win is their biggest in terms of runs in the ICC Champions Trophy. They had beaten South Africa by 95 runs at Nairobi (Gym) on 13-10-2000.
Ganguly won his 30th Man of the Match award and second in succession.
