India v West Indies, 1st ODI: Match report | Images | Scorecard
- India were playing their first match at this venue after having played 15 matches at seven other different venues in the Caribbean since 1982-83.
- Chris Gayle (123) scored his 12th hundred in his 131st match. With this he moved ahead of Viv Richards and Gordon Greenidge, who each has scored 11 ODI hundreds. Now only Brian Lara (19) and Desmond Haynes (17) have scored more hundreds than Gayle for West Indies.
- The hundred was Gayle's fourth in 17 matches against India. He has now scored most centuries for West Indies against India, surpassing the tally of Viv Richards & Gordon Greenidge (three apiece).
- No other batsman had previously scored this many hundreds against India in his first 17 matches (though Pakistan's Salman Butt stands a chance to better Gayle's performance with three hundreds in just 11 games against India).
- Agarkar's wicket of Gayle was his eighth in four matches in the Caribbean, which makes him the most successful Indian bowler against West Indies on their soil. He surpassed Kapil Dev's tally of seven wickets from 8 games.
- Dravid's catch of Gayle was his 100th as a fielder (excluding the ones taken as a keeper). He became third Indian after Mohammad Azharuddin (156) and Sachin Tendulkar (107) to do so.
- Ian Bradshaw completed his 50 wickets in ODIs when he dismissed Irfan Pathan. He became 20th West Indian to do so.
- Rahul Dravid (105) scored his 12th ODI hundred -- his third against West Indies. He had made 109* at Ahmedabad on 15-11-2002 and 103* at Singapore on 08-09-1999.
- Dravid also became the first Indian to score a hundred in the Caribbean. The previous highest score by an Indian in the Caribbean was Sunil Gavaskar's 90 at Berbice on 29-03-1983.
- Dravid's innings is also the best by an Indian captain against West Indies -- home or away. In fact he is the first Indian captain to score a hundred against West Indies. The previous highest was 88 by Dilip Vengsarkar at St. John's on 18-03-1989.
- Dravid's innings is now the highest by any captain against West Indies in West Indies, obliterating South African Graeme Smith's 103 at this same ground on 07-05-2005. Overall it was the fifth hundred by a captain against the West Indies.
- Dravid has now scored two hundreds as India's captain. The other one being an unbeaten 103 against Sri Lanka at Ahmedabad on 06-11-2005. He thus became only the fourth Indian after Sourav Ganguly (11), Sachin Tendulkar (6) and Mohammad Azharuddin (4) to score more than one hundred as a captain.
- During his innings, Dravid completed his 1,000 runs against West Indies when his score reached 91. He became second Indian after Sachin Tendulkar (1145 runs in 31 matches) and 12th batsman in the world to do so.
- Dravid needed 26 innings to complete his 1,000 runs against West Indies. Out of the 12 batsmen (who have aggregated 1,000 runs against West Indies) only one -- South Africa's Jacques Kallis - has taken less innings (25) to reach this landmark.
- Dravid also became the leading run-scorer for India against West Indies in West Indies. At the end of this match his tally against West Indies in the Caribbean stands at 283 runs in seven games at 47.16. He surpassed Dilip Vengsarkar's tally of 277 runs from 8 games.
- Mohammad Kaif (66*) was scoring a fifty after a gap of 14 innings. Kaif's last fifty was against New Zealand at Harare on 06-09-2005 in the Videocon Cup final. Kaif had then made an unbeaten 93 off 110 balls. India, however, lost the match by 6 wickets.
- The fourth wicket partnership of 123 runs between Dravid and Kaif is India's best for this wicket against West Indies in West Indies. The pair obliterated the previous record stand of 107 between Dilip Vengsarkar and Ravi Shastri at St. John's on 18-03-1989.
- The win extended India's world record of consecutive wins while chasing a target to 17 matches.
- India's ODI record at the end of this match reads as -- Matches 619, Won 296, Lost 296, No Result 24 and Tied 3. This is first time in India's ODI history when their win tally has equalled their tally of losses.
- Dravid won his 13th man of the match award -- third against West Indies.
