da betway： It was the 1720th ODI in cricket history
Rajneesh Gupta10-Jun-2001It was the 1720th ODI in cricket history.It was the 58th match between these two sides. The record now reads :Australia 32, Pakistan 23, tied one and abandoned 2.It was the fifth match between these two sides on English soil.Australia is now ahead with 3-2 score.Umpires Peter Willey and AGT Whitehead were officiating in their 22ndand 14th match respectively.Rashid Latif (66) scored his second fifty in his 103rd match. This wasalso his highest ODI score beating the 50 that he made against Indiaat Sharjah on 15-04-1996.Latif’s innings is the highest by a Pakistani wicketkeeper againstAustralia beating Salim Yousuf’s 59 at Sydney on 25-02-1990.The 124 run-partnership between Yousuf Youhana and Rashid Latif is thealltime record for seventh wicket in ODIs. The pair surpassed the 119run-partnership between Kenyan pair of Thomas Odoyo and Tony Sujiagainst Zimbabwe at Nairobi (Aga Khan) on 16-10-1997.The previous highest seventh wicket partnership for Pakistan was of108 runs between Rameez Raja and Anil Dalpat against New Zealand atChristchurch in 1984-85. The previous highest seventh wicketpartnership against Australia was worth 100 runs between SauravGanguly and Sunil Joshi at Colombo SSC on 06-09-1996.Brett Lee’s figures of 10-1-85-1 (RpO 8.50) are the most expensive byan Australian in a ten over spell. The previous record was of 75 runsjointly held by Craig McDermott (v India at Jaipur on 07-09-1986) andBrendon Julian (v Pak at Lahore on 10-11-1998).Lee’s figures are also the fourth joint most uneconomical in a tenover spell in One-Day Internationals’ history. The accompanying tablehas the details :
RpO Figures Bowler For Vs Venue Date9.70 (10-0-97-1) ALF De Mel SL WI Karachi 13-10-19879.40 (10-0-94-3) ST Jayasuriya SL Pak Nairobi Gym 04-10-19968.60 (10-0-86-0) T Kumaran Ind Pak Dhaka 03-06-20008.60 (10-0-86-2) Waqar YounisPak SL Benoni 15-04-19988.50 (10-0-85-1) Ata-ur-RahmanPak Ind Sharjah 15-04-19968.50 (10-0-85-0) BS Lee Aus Pak Cardiff 09-06-2001
Adam Gilchrist with three dismissals in this match has now taken histally of victims against Pakistan to 21 which places him second amongthe Australians behind Ian Healy (39 dismissals from 25 matches) andahead of Rodney Marsh (20 dismissals from 13 matches).The wicket of Shoaib Akhtar was 100th for Glenn McGrath on foreignsoil. He became third Australian after Shane Warne (138 wickets in 94matches) and Damien Fleming (108 wickets in 65 matches). IncidentallyPakistan’s Wasim Akram with 371 wickets from 252 matches holds theworld record of most wickets in `away’ matches.Ricky Ponting (70) was scoring his fourth consecutive fifty againstPakistan. He had scored 53 at Melbourne on 23-01-2000, followed it upwith 50 also at Melbourne on 02-02-2000 in the first final of WorldSeries Cup and then notched up 78 at Sydney on 04-02-2000 in thesecond final.Shoaib Akhtar’s figures of 5-0-41-1 (RpO 8.20) are the most expensiveby a Pakistani in a five over spell against Australia. Mohsin Kamalhad conceded 39 runs in his five overs at Lahore on 14-10-1988.Ricky Ponting was winning his ninth Man of the Match award.