It was the 1724th ODI in cricket history

Rajneesh Gupta22-Jun-2001

• It 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 28th
  match respectively.

• Darren Gough was playing his 50th consecutive match since the match
  against Australia at Brisbane on 10-01-1999.He became fourth
  Englishman to do so after Ian Botham (67), Graeme Hick (55) and David
  Gower (50).

• Marcus Trescothick became third Englishman to be dismissed off the
  first ball of a match. Others to achieve this dubiuos distinction for
  England are Barry Roberts (b.Roberts) versus West Indies at
  Scarborough on 26-08-1976 and Derek Randall (c.Lloyd b.Roberts) versus
  West Indies at Brisbane on 23-12-1979. In addition, Graham Gooch was
  also 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 the
  match.

• The eighth wicket partnership of 67 runs between Ben Hollioake and
  Darren Gough was England’s best for this wicket against all countries
  obliterating the 62 run-partnership between Darren Gough and Dermot
  Reeve against Sri Lanka at Faisalabad on 09-03-1996. This also
  equalled the record partnership for eighth wicket by any side against
  Pakistan. Kenya’s Deepak Chudasama and Thomas Odoyo had also added 67
  runs at Nairobi (Aga) on 02-10-1996. Incidentally the previous highest
  partnership for England for eighth wicket against Pakistan was a
  paltry 29 runs between Ronnie Erani and Robert Croft at Edgbaston on
  31-08-1996. Just for the record,the previous highest for England for
  eighth wicket in England was 55 runs between John Lever and Chris Old
  against Australia at 04-06-1977.

• Gough’s innings of 40* is the highest by an English batsman at number
  nine. This obliterated Martin Bicknell’s 31* against Australia at
  Perth on 09-12-1990.Incidentally West Indian Michael Holding holds the
  record of playing the highest innings at this position with 64 against
  Australia at Perth on 05-02-1984.

• Gough now has an aggregate of 189 runs (ave.15.75) in 18 innings while
  batting at number nine – maximum for England. He surpassed Phil de
  Freitas’ tally of 151 runs (ave.15.10) from 20 innings. Just for the
  record, Australia’s Shane Warne has scored maximum runs at this
  batting position – 421 runs (ave 14.03) from 47 innings.

• Waqar Younis (7-36) achieved the second best bowling performance in
  ODIs. Only Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan with 7 for 30 against
  India at Sharjah last year has better figures in shorter form of the
  game. Waqar also bettered Aaqib Javed’s Pakistani record of best
  bowling in one day internationals. Javed took seven wickets for 37
  runs against India at Sharjah on October 25,1991. Waqar also put
  Winston Davis’ seven for 51 in to shade – the previous best figures by
  a bowler on English soil. He also eclipsed Australia’s Garry Gilmour’s
  six for 14 – the previous best figures against England. The
  accompanying table lists the best bowling figures in a one-day
  international :

• Waqar’s figures are now the best by a captain in ODIs. The previous
  record was on the name of West Indian Viv Richards who took six for
  41 against India at Delhi on 23-10-1989. The following table lists
  the best bowling figures by a captain in a ODI match :

• Alec Stewart, by holding four catches in Pakistani innings, created a
  new 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 of
  wickets to 147 from 94 matches making him the most successful bowler
  for England. Gough eclipsed Ian Botham’s record of 145 wickets from
  116 matches.

• Alec Stewart conceded the match due to pitch invasion by crowd. It was
  the second instance of a side conceding the match. The only other
  instance took place more than 22 years ago when Indian captain Bishan
  Singh Bedi called his batsmen from the field when 23 runs were needed
  from 14 balls with eight wickets in hand in protest against the
  persistent short pitched bowling of Sarfraz Nawaz whose four
  consecutive bouncers were not called wide. Though the World Cup match
  between India and Sri Lanka at Calcutta on 13-03-1996 had to be
  abandoned due to crowd disturbance when India was 120 for eight in
  reply to Sri Lanka’s 251 for eight , the match was awarded to Sri
  Lanka by default by match referee Clive Lloyd.

• The defeat in this match has extended England’s streak of consecutive
  losses to 10. The defeat was also England’s fifth in consecutive
  matches at home soilits worst performance. England had lost four
  matches in a row from 18-06-1975 to 31-08-1976.

• Waqar Younis was winning his 14th Man of the Match awardfirst
  against England in 13 matches.