It was the 1735th ODI in cricket history

Rajneesh Gupta19-Jul-2001

  • It was the 1735th ODI in cricket history.
  • It was New Zealand’s 380th and Sri Lanka’s 356th match- 48th between
    these two sides. The record now reads : Sri Lanka 19, New Zealand
    26,tied one and abandoned 2.

  • It was the 100th match on Sri Lankan soil. Sri Lanka became country
    after Australia (386), India (219) ,England (202), United Arab
    Emirates (174), New Zealand (161), Pakistan (132) and South Africa
    (105) to host 100 or more ODI matches.

  • Umpires LV Jayasundra and DN Pathirana were officiating in their fifth
    and 10th match respectively.

  • Sanath Jayasuriya, leading Sri Lanka for the 54th time in his career,
    completed his 2000 runs as captain. He became second Sri Lankan after
    Arjuna Ranatunga and 13th captain in ODIs to achieve this landmark.
    The accompanying table has details :














































































































































































Captain

For

M

Inns

NO

Runs

HS

Ave

100s

50s

0s

A Ranatunga

SL

193

183

34

5606

131*

37.62

4

37

14

M Azharuddin

Ind

174

162

29

5239

153*

39.39

4

37

6

AR Border

Aus

178

165

27

4439

127*

32.17

2

27

6

WJ Cronje

SA

138

128

20

4070

94

37.69

–

31

6

Imran Khan

Pak

139

122

29

3247

102*

34.91

1

18

2

IVA Richards

WI

106

92

11

3203

181

39.54

2

23

3

SR Tendulkar

Ind

73

70

5

2454

186*

37.75

6

12

4

SR Waugh

Aus

98

82

14

2398

120*

35.26

2

15

8

SP Fleming

NZ

93

88

9

2356

116*

29.82

2

14

5

MA Taylor

Aus

67

65

1

2098

105

32.78

1

15

2

ADR Campbell

Zim

76

74

8

2075

102

31.44

2

13

3

RB Richardson

WI

87

83

13

2042

122

29.17

2

10

–

ST Jayasuriya

SL

54

54

1

2029

189

38.28

5

14

4

  • Craig McMillan , on 5,completed his 2000 runs in ODIs. He was playing
    his 89th match and 83rd innings. He became 12th New Zealander and 94th
    batsman in all to do so.

  • The wicket of Vincent was 50th for Muttiah Muralitharan on Sri Lankan
    soil. He became second Sri Lankan after Sanath Jayasuriya (74 wickets
    in 60 matches) to do so.

  • Adam Parare was scoring a fifty after 61 matches. His last fifty had
    also come against Sri Lanka (54 at Dhaka on October 26,1998). It was
    the fourth fifty by a New Zealander wicketkeeper against Sri Lanka.
    All four have been scored by Parore !

  • During his innings, Parore also completed his 2000 runs in `away’
    matches for New Zealand. He became fourth New Zealander to do so after
    Martin Crowe (2820 runs in 86 matches), John Wright (2752 runs in 106
    matches) and Stephen Fleming (2344 runs in 90 matches).

  • The two wickets in this match has taken Muralitharan’s tally to 32 in
    the year 2001 which makes him the bowler with most wickets in onedayers along with Pakistan’s Waqar Younis (32 in 16) and Australia’s
    Shane Warne (32 in 18). This was Murali’s 18th match in year 2001.

  • The defeat was New Zealand’s 50th under Stephen Fleming’s captaincy.
    Fleming became first New Zealander and fifth captain in ODIs to
    achieve this dubious distinction. Others to do so are Sri Lankan
    Arjuna Ranatunga (95 losses in 193 matches), Indian Mohammad
    Azharuddin (76 losses in 174 matches),Australian Allan Border (67
    losses in 178 matches) and Pakistani Imran Khan (59 losses in 139
    matches). However all other four captains had won more matches than
    the matches they lost.

  • Sanath Jayasuriya was winning his 26th Man of the Match award. With
    this he equalled West Indian Desmond Haynes’ tally of awards. Now only
    India’s Sachin Tendukar (41),West Indian Viv Richards (31), Pakistani
    Saeed Anwar (27) and former teammate Aravinda de Silva (27) are ahead
    of Jayasuriya in this form of cricket.