da prosport bet： Saurav Ganguly’s 84 was his fourth successive fifty in oneday internationals
da brdice： Rajneesh Gupta11-Mar-2002Saurav Ganguly’s 84 was his fourth successive fifty in oneday internationals. He had earlier made 74 and 80 in the last twoone-dayers against England and 57 in the first one-dayer againstZimbabwe at Faridabad.Ganguly has now aggregated 2536 one-day runs in 59 matches ascaptain of India. This takes him past Sachin Tendulkar’s tally of2454 runs from 73 matches as captain. Now only MohammadAzharuddin (5239 runs in 174 matches) has scored more runs asIndian captaian.India’s total of 319 for 6 was its highest against Zimbabweobliterating the total of 306 for 5 (in 50 overs) made atAhmedabad on December 5, 2000.It was the fifth highest total for India against any team andthe second highest by any team against Zimbabwe after the 363 for3 (in 50 overs) made by South Africa at Bulawayo on September23,2001It was also the highest for India on this ground beating the289 for six (in 50 overs) against Australia on November 3,1996.The 25 wides conceded by Zimbabwean bowlers are the maximumwides conceded by any team against India. Interestingly theprevious record was also held by Zimbabwe; they conceded 24 widesin the 1999 World Cup game at Leicester on May 19,1999.The 134-run partnership between Alistair Campbell and TravisFriend is Zimbabwe’s highest for the second wicket against India.This obliterated the previous record of 125 between Campbell andMurray Goodwin at Bulwayo on September 27, 1998.Mongia, who claimed 3-31 in the six overs that he bowled onSunday, was incidentally bowling for the first time in hisinternational career.The match aggregate of 574 runs was the highest between thetwo countries, beating the 570 scored at Cuttack in April 1998.Ganguly’s Man of Match award was his 26th in his 188thmatch. With this, he is now on par with Sri Lanka’s Aravinda deSilva and West Indian Desmond Haynes. Now only fellow IndianSachin Tendulkar (43), West Indian Viv Richards and Sri Lanka’sSanath Jayasuriya (28) have won more awards than the Indiancaptain.
