It was the 1724th ODI in cricket history
Rajneesh Gupta22-Jun-2001It was the 1724th ODI in cricket history.It was England’s 330th and Pakistan’s 498th ODI.It was the 49th match between these two sides. The record now reads :Pakistan 20, England 28, abandoned one.John Holder and Mervyn Kitchen were officiating in their 18th and 28thmatch respectively.Darren Gough was playing his 50th consecutive match since the matchagainst Australia at Brisbane on 10-01-1999.He became fourthEnglishman to do so after Ian Botham (67), Graeme Hick (55) and DavidGower (50).Marcus Trescothick became third Englishman to be dismissed off thefirst ball of a match. Others to achieve this dubiuos distinction forEngland are Barry Roberts (b.Roberts) versus West Indies atScarborough on 26-08-1976 and Derek Randall (c.Lloyd b.Roberts) versusWest Indies at Brisbane on 23-12-1979. In addition, Graham Gooch wasalso dismissed off the first ball in England’s innings (lbw Brandes)at Albury on 18-03-1992,but that was in the second innings of thematch.The eighth wicket partnership of 67 runs between Ben Hollioake andDarren Gough was England’s best for this wicket against all countriesobliterating the 62 run-partnership between Darren Gough and DermotReeve against Sri Lanka at Faisalabad on 09-03-1996. This alsoequalled the record partnership for eighth wicket by any side againstPakistan. Kenya’s Deepak Chudasama and Thomas Odoyo had also added 67runs at Nairobi (Aga) on 02-10-1996. Incidentally the previous highestpartnership for England for eighth wicket against Pakistan was apaltry 29 runs between Ronnie Erani and Robert Croft at Edgbaston on31-08-1996. Just for the record,the previous highest for England foreighth wicket in England was 55 runs between John Lever and Chris Oldagainst Australia at 04-06-1977.Gough’s innings of 40* is the highest by an English batsman at numbernine. This obliterated Martin Bicknell’s 31* against Australia atPerth on 09-12-1990.Incidentally West Indian Michael Holding holds therecord of playing the highest innings at this position with 64 againstAustralia at Perth on 05-02-1984.Gough now has an aggregate of 189 runs (ave.15.75) in 18 innings whilebatting at number nine – maximum for England. He surpassed Phil deFreitas’ tally of 151 runs (ave.15.10) from 20 innings. Just for therecord, Australia’s Shane Warne has scored maximum runs at thisbatting position – 421 runs (ave 14.03) from 47 innings.Waqar Younis (7-36) achieved the second best bowling performance inODIs. Only Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan with 7 for 30 againstIndia at Sharjah last year has better figures in shorter form of thegame. Waqar also bettered Aaqib Javed’s Pakistani record of bestbowling in one day internationals. Javed took seven wickets for 37runs against India at Sharjah on October 25,1991. Waqar also putWinston Davis’ seven for 51 in to shade – the previous best figures bya bowler on English soil. He also eclipsed Australia’s Garry Gilmour’ssix for 14 – the previous best figures against England. Theaccompanying table lists the best bowling figures in a one-dayinternational :
Figures
Balls
RpO
Bowler
Countries
Venue
Date
7-30
60
3.00
M Muralitharan
SL v Ind
Sharjah
29-10-2000
7-36
60
3.60
Waqar Younis
Pak v Eng
Leeds
17-06-2001
7-37
60
3.70
Aqib Javed
Pak v Ind
Sharjah
25-10-1991
7-51
63
4.86
WW Davis
WI v Aus
Leeds
12-06-1983
6-12
37
1.95
A Kumble
Ind v WI
Calcutta
27-11-1993
6-14
72
1.17
GJ Gilmour
Aus v Eng
Leeds
18-06-1975
6-14
60
1.40
Imran Khan
Pak v Ind
Sharjah
22-03-1985
6-15
54
1.67
CEH Croft
WI v Eng
Kingstown
04-02-1981
6-18
60
1.80
Azhar Mahmood
Pak v WI
Sharjah
19-10-1999
6-19
50
2.28
HK Olonga
Zim v Eng
Cape Town
28-01-2000
6-20
60
2.00
BC Strang
Zim v BD
Nairobi Aga
14-10-1997
6-23
54
2.56
AA Donald
SA v Ken
Nairobi Gym
03-10-1996
6-26
60
2.60
Waqar Younis
Pak v SL
Sharjah
29-04-1990
6-29
59
2.95
BP Patterson
WI v Ind
Nagpur
08-12-1987
6-29
58
3.00
ST Jayasuriya
SL v Eng
Moratuwa
20-03-1993
6-30
58
3.10
Waqar Younis
Pak v NZ
Auckland
13-03-1994
6-35
60
3.50
SM Pollock
SA v WI
East London
24-01-1999
6-39
71
3.30
KH MacLeay
Aus v Ind
Nottingham
13-06-1979
6-41
58
4.24
IVA Richards
WI v Ind
Delhi FSK
23-10-1989
6-44
60
4.40
Waqar Younis
Pak v NZ
Sharjah
23-11-1996
6-49
60
4.90
L Klusener
SA v SL
Lahore
06-11-1997
6-50
54
5.56
AH Gray
WI v Aus
Port-of-Spain
09-03-1991
Waqar’s figures are now the best by a captain in ODIs. The previousrecord was on the name of West Indian Viv Richards who took six for41 against India at Delhi on 23-10-1989. The following table liststhe best bowling figures by a captain in a ODI match :Waqar Younis
7-36
Pak v Eng
Leeds
17-06-2001
IVA Richards
6-41
WI v Ind
Delhi
23-10-1989
GS Chappell
5-15
Aus v Ind
Sydney
08-01-1981
Wasim Akram
5-15
Pak v Zim
Karachi
24-12-1993
Wasim Akram
5-16
Pak v SA
East London
15-02-1993
GS Chappell
5-20
Aus v Eng
Birmingham
04-06-1977
ST Jayasuriya
5-28
SL v Aus
Galle
22-08-2000
Asif Karim
5-33
Ken v BD
Nairobi Gym
10-10-1997
SC Ganguly
5-34
Ind v Zim
Kanpur
11-12-2000
IVA Richards
5-41
WI v NZ
Dunedin
18-03-1987
Kapil Dev
5-43
Ind v Aus
Nottingham
13-06-1983
Alec Stewart, by holding four catches in Pakistani innings, created anew record of most dismissals by an English keeper against Pakistan.The previous record was of three dismissals made on seven occasions(thrice by Stewart himself).The two wickets in this match has taken Darren Gough’s tally ofwickets to 147 from 94 matches making him the most successful bowlerfor England. Gough eclipsed Ian Botham’s record of 145 wickets from116 matches.Alec Stewart conceded the match due to pitch invasion by crowd. It wasthe second instance of a side conceding the match. The only otherinstance took place more than 22 years ago when Indian captain BishanSingh Bedi called his batsmen from the field when 23 runs were neededfrom 14 balls with eight wickets in hand in protest against thepersistent short pitched bowling of Sarfraz Nawaz whose fourconsecutive bouncers were not called wide. Though the World Cup matchbetween India and Sri Lanka at Calcutta on 13-03-1996 had to beabandoned due to crowd disturbance when India was 120 for eight inreply to Sri Lanka’s 251 for eight , the match was awarded to SriLanka by default by match referee Clive Lloyd.The defeat in this match has extended England’s streak of consecutivelosses to 10. The defeat was also England’s fifth in consecutivematches at home soilits worst performance. England had lost fourmatches in a row from 18-06-1975 to 31-08-1976.Waqar Younis was winning his 14th Man of the Match awardfirstagainst England in 13 matches.