3rd Match, India v Sri Lanka, Coca Cola Cup, Statistical Highlights

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Rajneesh Gupta23-Jul-2001It was the 1737th ODI in cricket history.It was India’s 471st and Sri Lanka’s 357th match- 67th between thesetwo sides. The record now reads : Sri Lanka 28, India 34 and abandoned5.Umpires Peter Manuel and TH Wijewardene were officiating in their 33rdand fourth match respectively.Amay Khurasiya was making a comeback into Indian side after about 22months. He last appeared for India against West Indies at Singapore(Kallang) on September 5,1999 , thus missing 59 matches in between.Khurasiya became 14th Indian to have a gap of 50 or more matches inbetween two consecutive appearances. Others to do so for India areAshish Kapoor (157 matches),Robin Singh (146), Harvinder Singh(110),Saurav Ganguly (91), Harbhajan Singh (84), Arun Lal (74), ParasMhambrey (72), Rajesh Chauhan (71), WV Raman (71), Virender Shewag(66),Anshuman Gaekwad (64), Maninder Singh (52) and Salil Ankola (51).Avishka Gunawardene (67) made his highest score against India. Hisprevious highest was 52 (off 55 balls) at Sharjah on November 6,1998.The eighth wicket partnership of 49 runs between Kumara Dharmasena andSuresh Perera was Sri Lanka’s best for this wicket against India. Thisobliterated the previous highest of 39* between Arjuna Ranatunga andRumesh Ratnayake at Sharjah on April 25,1990.The partnership was also the highest for Sri Lanka for the eighthwicket against any country in Sri Lanka. The previous highest was 40run-partnership between Upul Chandana and Chamara Silva againstAustralia at this same ground on August 26,1999.The partnership also bettered the 47 run unbroken stand betweenAravinda de Silva and Hasan Tillekeratne against England at Sydney onFebruary 3,1999 which was then the highest stand for Sri Lanka foreighth wicket in all day-night matches.Saurav Ganguly has now aggregated 1199 runs in 39 day-night matchesunder floodlights (i.e.batting second). He thus surpassed MohammadAzharuddin’s tally of 1176 runs from 45 matches. Now only SachinTendulkar (2058 runs from 45 matches) is ahead of Ganguly for India.Incidentally Tendulkar’s aggregate is record in ODIs.The defeat by six runs was India’s joint second narrowest in a daynight encounter. It had lost to Sri Lanka at this same ground by 2runs on August 17,1997 and to Australia by six runs at Sydney onJanuary 20,1992. The following table lists India’s narrowest defeatsin daynight matches :

Margin

Winner

Score

Loser

Score

Venue

Date

2 runs

SL

302-4 (50 overs)

Ind

300-7 (50 overs)

Colombo RPS

17-08-1997

6 runs

Aus

208-9 (50 overs)

Ind

202-7 (50 overs)

Sydney

20-01-1992

6 runs

SL

221-9 (50 overs)

Ind

215-7 (50 overs)

Colombo RPS

22-07-2001

7 runs

Eng

250 (49.5 overs)

Ind

243 (49.3 overs)

Sharjah

11-12-1997

8 runs

SL

204-7 (50 overs)

Ind

196 (49.2 overs)

Colombo RPS

12-08-1993

9 runs

Eng

236-9 (50 overs)

Ind

227 (49.2 overs)

Perth

22-02-1992