da dobrowin： It was the 1716th ODI in cricket history
da bet sport： Rajneesh Gupta12-May-2001It was the 1716th ODI in cricket history.It was West Indies’ 422nd and South Africa’s 227th match.It was the 23rd match between these two sides. The record now reads: South Africa 16, West Indies 7.Umpires Billy Doctrove and Eddie Nicholls were officiating in their 10th and 26th match respectively.The sixth wicket partnership of 61 runs between Brian Lara and Ridley Jacobs was West Indies’ best for this wicket against South Africa. This obliterated the previous highest of 46 between Marlon Samuels and Jacobs in the previous match.Brian Lara (92) became a victim of nervous ninety for the fourth time in his career. His other scores in 90s are: 95* v Pakistan at Port-of-Spain on 26-03-1993, 90 v Australia at Perth on 12-01-1997 and 93 v England at Port-of-Spain on 08-04-1998. Now only Richie Richardson (6) has more scores in nineties than Lara for West Indies. Lara moved ahead of Gordon Greenidge, Viv Richards and Desmond Haynes who each has three 90s on his name. This was also the first score in ninety’ for West Indies against South Africa.Lara also became the 17th batsman in ODI history to make four or more scores in ninety. The list is headed by Sri Lanka’s Aravinda de Silva with 8 such instances. The details:
Batsman Country 90s 99sAravinda de Silva SL 8 0Mohammad Azharuddin Ind 7 0Richie Richardson WI 6 1Dean Jones Aus 6 1Martin Crowe NZ 6 0Sachin Tendulkar Ind 6 0Krish Srikkanth Ind 5 1Hansie Cronje SA 5 0Nathan Astle NZ 5 0Allan Lamb Eng 4 1Ijaz Ahmed Pak 4 0Grant Flower Zim 4 0Ajay Jadeja Ind 4 0Saeed Anwar Pak 4 0Inzamam-ul-Haq Pak 4 0Allan Border Aus 4 0Brian Lara WI 4 0
Kallis’ figures (4-22) were best by a South African against West Indies in West Indies. He bettered Allan Donald’s 4 for 38 in the previous match at Grenada.Kallis has now taken 23 wickets in 12 matches against West Indiesmost for South Africa. Allan Donald and Hansie Cronje are jointly placed second with 19 wickets each.Herschelle Gibbs (107), on 46,completed his 2000 runs in the shorter version of the game. He was playing his 68th match and innings. He became eighth South African and 92nd batsman in the world to reach this landmark.Gibbs’ innings equalled the highest by a South African against West Indies in West Indies. Jacques Kallis had made the identical score in the third match of this series at Grenada.The hundred was Gibbs’ second in this series (he had made 104 at St.John’s on May 2nd). He has now joined three other countrymen who have scored two hundreds in a series (or competition). The accompanying table has the details:
100s Batsman For Season Series/To'ment Mts Inns NO Runs HS Ave 502 Gary Kirsten SA 1995-96 Sharjah Cup 5 5 1 356 115* 89.00 12 Jacques Kallis SA 1998-99 [NZ] 7 6 0 323 100 53.83 22 Nicky Boje SA 2000-01 [NZ] 6 6 2 355 129 88.75 12 HH Gibbs SA 2000-01 [WI] 5 5 0 292 107 58.40 0
The victory in this match sealed the series in South Africa’s favour. South Africa also ended West Indies’ remarkable run at home soil. Out of the 22 bilateral series prior to this one, West Indies won as many as 17, drew three and lost only two (including a one off match series against Sri Lanka in 1995-96). The only other team to beat West Indies in a series of atleast three matches in West Indies is Australia which clinched the five match series in 1990-91 by 4-1 margin.The Man of Match award was fifth for Herschelle Gibbs.
