Highest Total Of INDIA In ODI's:
1.) 418/5 (Sehwag 219)
2.) 414/7 (Sehwag 146)
3.) 413/5 (Sehwag 114)
4.) 401/3 (Sachin 200*)
5.) 392/4 (Sachin 163*)
Highest Total Of INDIA In Tests :
1.) 726/9 (Sehwag 293)
2.) 707 (Sachin 203)
3.) 705/7 (Sachin 241)
Sachin and Sehwag made India to reach Heights in Odi.
"I am looking forward to playing on bouncy tracks." - Shikhar Dhawan, India's attacking opening batsman is asking for trouble by saying such things before the tour of South Africa, don't you think? We're pretty sure Dale Steyn and Co. are also looking forward to bowling to Dhawan and the rest of the Indian batting line-up. The action begins on December 5th in Johannesburg.
India won by 5 wkts, Man of the match: Shikhar Dhawan
Following are the statistical highlights of the third and final match of the ODI series between India and the West Indies.
# Shikhar Dhawan's magnificent match-winning 119 off 95 balls is his career-best score in ODIs, obliterating the 116 off 127 balls vs Zimbabwe at Harare on July 26, 2013.
# Dhawan's aforesaid hundred is his fifth in his 28th innings, equalling Sri Lanka's Upul Tharanga's record.
# Both Tharanga and Dhawan share a record for recording the first five ODI hundreds in least number of innings.
# Dhawan's tally of six international centuries this year is the highest. His tally of five ODIs hundreds is the highest by any batsman this year.
# Dhawan's 73-ball century is his fastest in ODIs. He has received his third Man of the Match award — one each vs South Africa, West Indies and Zimbabwe.
# Yuvraj Singh (55) has posted his 51st fifty in ODIs — his fifth vs West Indies.
# After 10 innings, Yuvraj has registered a fifty in ODIs.
# India have won five bilateral series in succession for the first time vs West Indies in ODIs — 2006-07 (3-1), 2009 (3-1), 2011 (3-2), 2011-12 (4-1) and 2013-14 (2-1).
# Further, India have won six series in a row for the second time in ODIs. Between August 2008 and September 2009, they had won six series in succession.
# West Indies have lost their first ODI out of three contested at Green Park, Kanpur in ODIs.
# India's win at Kanpur is their 50th out of 112 ODIs played vs West Indies (Lost 59, NR 2 and Tied 1) — success % 45.90.
# India (266/5) have registered their highest successful chase at Green Park, bettering the 259 for four vs England on October 25, 1989.
# Mahendra Singh Dhoni became the third batsman to remain unbeaten 50 times in a winning cause in ODIs, joining Michael Bevan (53) and Steve Waugh (50). His brilliant average of 74.57 is the highest among the batsmen with 1000 runs or more in a winning cause in ODIs — his aggregate being 4773 runs in 134 matches.
# Virat Kohli has received the Player of the Series for the third time in ODIs.
# Dhawan and Yuvraj put on a 129-run partnership — the highest for the third wicket at Green Park.
# Ravi Rampaul became the 14th West Indian bowler to complete 100 wickets in ODIs at an average of 29.29 in 80 games.
# West Indies (263/5) have posted their highest total at Green Park, surpassing the 257 for six vs India on October 30, 1994.
# Kieran Powell has registered his fifth fifty in ODIs — his second against India. In his last five innings, he has posted four fifties — the sequence of scores being 79, 57 & 42 vs Zimbabwe and 59 & 70 vs India.
# Marlon Samuels has posted his seventh fifty vs India — his 23rd in ODIs.
# Powell and Samuels were associated in a partnership of 117 for the second wicket —West Indies' highest for any wicket at Green Park in ODIs.
# Darren Bravo has posted his 15th fifty in ODIs - his sixth vs India. He has registered three fifties in the series - 59 at Kochi; 50 at Visakhapatnam and an unbeaten 51 at Kanpur. Ramnaresh Sarwan was the last West Indian batsman to register three fifties in an ODI series — vs India in 2011.
# Eight fifty-plus innings have been registered by the West Indian players — the most by them in a three — game series.
The Barmy Army came up with this song to mock Mitch the last time England toured Australia.
He bowls to the left...
He bowls to the rightttttttt
That Mitchell Johnson
His bowling is shite!
Doesn't look like they'll be singing it anytime soon on this tour.
List of people who got a 100 in their 100th Test: Colin Cowdrey, Javed Miandad, Gordon Greenidge, Alec Stewart, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Ricky Ponting and Graeme Smith. Kevin Pietersen is out in the middle now in his 100th Test. Will he join the coveted list?
RECORD ALERT: Virat Kohli (119 matches, 113 innings) needs to score 81 runs today to become the fastest batsman to 5000 runs in ODIs. The current record is in the name of a certain Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards (126 matches, 114 innings).
The first ODI between India and West Indies starts today at 1:30 pm, IST.
It's back. TheAshes.
The first Test starts tomorrow. We think Australia will win the first encounter. What do you feel?
We're not entirely sure why Sunil Narine wasn't considered good enough to be included in the XI for the Test series, but he's back for the ODIs to trouble India. The battle between Narine and Virat Kohli will be worth going miles to watch. The first game kicks off on Nov. 21.
Get ready for the ODI series between West Indies and India. The first game kicks off on Nov. 21. Bravo!
"You would have noticed, I didn't want to be rude, but I could not look up when I was shaking hands, including with West Indies players, because I was in tears, and I didn't want anyone to see my face that way. It's hard to express what I felt, but in spite of all these things I knew the decision was correct. I know the decision is right." - Sachin Tendulkar #MissYouSachin
Sachin Tendulkar took a lap around the Wankhede ground on the shoulders of his team-mates to thank everyone in the crowd after his cricket career came to an end with India winning his farewell Test by an innings and 126 runs.
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Happy birthday, Waqar Younis.
Did you know?
The Burewala Bombshell, after bursting onto the scene against New Zealand in 1990-91, took 109 wickets over a three-year period at an average of 18.07 and the incredible strike rate of 33.55 balls per wicket. In the long history of cricket, nobody has ever taken so many wickets so fast for so long and so little. No, not even Dale Steyn.
November 15, 1989: Sachin Tendulkar, aged just 16 years 205 days makes his Test debut against Pakistan in Karachi. #ThisDayThatYear
Did you know?
Waqar Younis also made his debut on the same day in the same Test at the age of 17 years 364 days.
Watching cricket without Sachin would be different now..will miss him for sure...
#ThankYouSachin
Happy birthday, Adam Gilchrist.
Did you know? Gilchrist is the only player to hit 100 Test sixes (in 96 Tests). By the way, India's very own Gilly, Dhoni, has so far hit 75 sixes in 78 Tests. And the most sixes by an Indian in Tests? Virender Sehwag with 91 in 104 Tests.
Ishant Sharma and Vinay Kumar, expectedly, are the casualties after the run feast against Australia. Mohit Sharma and Dhawal Kulkarni get a call up. Ravindra Jadeja is back as well after being rested for the Tests against West Indies. India drop Ishant for WI ODIs
India have dropped out of form pacers Ishant Sharma and Vinay Kumar while recalling Mohit Sharma for the three-match ODI series against West Indies.
Fifty little-known Sachin Tendulkar facts
As one of the greatest Indian cricketer wraps up his 24-year career, here are some little-known, interesting nuggets about the master.
FAMILY
1. The first school Sachin attended as a child was Indian Education Society's New English School in Bandra East.
2. Sachin's elder brother Ajit Tendulkar had played cricket alongside former India wicketkeeper Chandrakant Pandit and former India opener Lalchand Rajput.
3. In 1990, while returning from the tour of England at the age of 17, Sachin met his wife Anjali for the first time at the Mumbai airport.
4. Sachin got married at the age of 22.
5. Sachin's father-in-law is a seven-time national bridge champion.
6. Sachin's daughter 'Sara' is named after the first tournament Sachin won as a captain - 'Sahara' Cup in 1997.
7. Sachin's father, Ramesh Tendulkar, named him after the famous music director Sachin Dev Burman.
EARLY DAYS
8. Sunil Gavaskar gifted the 14-year-old Sachin a pair of his own ultra-light pads. Those pads were later stolen while Sachin was at the under-15 national camp.
9. Dilip Vengsarkar gifted Sachin a GM bat after he was selected for the under-15 Bombay squad.
10. Dennis Lillie rejected Sachin when he went to the MRF Pace Foundation to become a fast bowler.
11. Sachin met Sourav Ganguly for the first time at the under-15 national camp in Indore.
12. Sachin scored his life's first century for Shradashram Vidyamandir against the Don Bosco School, Matunga, in the Harris Shield quarter-final at Shivaji Park.
13. Sachin's average in the 1988 Harris Shield was 102.5.
14. CCI amended its rules to allow 14-year-old Sachin to use its dressing room.
15. Sachin and Gavaskar were both named among the 36 Bombay Ranji Trophy probables in 1987.
16. Sachin was one of the ball boys during the 1987 World Cup held in India.
Becoming Tendulkar
17. Sachin, Waqar Younis, Salil Ankola and Shahid Saeed made their international debuts together in the 1989 Karachi Test.
18. Sachin's debut Test was Kapil Dev's 100th.
19. Sachin scored a duck in his ODI debut, which was against Pakistan.
20. Sachin scored his first Test century against England at Old Trafford, Manchester, in 1990.
21. Sachin's first bowling figures in both Tests and ODIs are identical: 1-0-10-0.
22. In the Kotla Test against Pakistan where Kumble took a perfect 10, whenever Tendulkar handed Kumble's sweater and cap to the umpire at the start of an over, Kumble took a wicket. So he continued doing that until Kumble took all ten.
23. Sachin made his home international debut against Sri Lanka in 1990.
24. Sachin was the first batsman to be given out by a third umpire in the 1992 Test series in South Africa. The umpire was Karl Liebenberg.
25. In 1992, Sachin became the first overseas cricketer to play for Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
26. Yorkshire Television contributed 30,000 pounds to felicitate Sachin's stint with Yorkshire.
27. A Magnum champagne bottle was gifted to Sachin when he scored his first Test hundred at Manchester in 1990. But he couldn't open it as British rules didn't allow those under 18 to do that. Sachin chose to wait for 8 years and popped it at his daughter Sara's first birthday in 1998.
28. Sachin scored his first century on Indian soil in 1993 against England at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
29. Andrew Symonds once autographed a T-shirt especially for Sachin. It read: "To Sachin, the man we all want to be."
30. In the second ODI on the tour of New Zealand in 1994, Sachin opened the batting for the first time.
31. Sachin has been involved in 20 century partnerships with Rahul Dravid totaling over 6000 runs.
32. It took Sachin 79 matches to score his first ODI century. After that, he scored 48 more.
33. Sachin holds the record for completing his hundred with a six the most number of times by doing it on six occasions.
34. The highest number of centuries hit by Sachin at a single ground have come at the Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, where he has scored 7 ODI tons.
35. Sachin has also opened batting in Test cricket, but only once - with Sadagopan Ramesh in the Ahmedabad Test against New Zealand in 1999. He made 15.
36. The only Test-playing nation where Sachin has never scored a Test century is Zimbabwe.
37. Sachin has never faced Anil Kumble in a Ranji Trophy game.
38. Sachin became the most-capped Test player after overtaking Steve Waugh's record of 168 Tests.
39. Sachin carries India's national flag in his cricket bag and also sports it on his helmet.
40. Shane Warne accompanied Sachin to Sir Don Bradman's house on the batting legend's 90th birthday.
41. Sachin visited London's Madame Tussauds for the first time in 1988. Twenty years later, the museum had his wax statue.
42. Sachin made guest appearance in a Bollywood movie titled 'Stumped' in 2003.
43. Sachin holds the record for scoring most Test centuries (5) before turning 20.
44. In 2007, Virgin Comics created a new superhero called 'Master Blaster' based on Sachin to launch a new series of comic books.
45. Sachin, Brian Lara and Steve Waugh all had MRF as their bat sponsors. Lara's bat was called 'Wizard', Waugh's 'Champion' and Sachin's 'Genius.'
46. The Future Group launched a toothpaste named after Sachin in 2010. It was called 'Sach'.
47. Sachin's photographer friend Atul Kasbekar convinced him to join Twitter in May 2010.
48. In 2008, Sachin appeared in an Australian reality television series called An Aussie Goes Bolly.
49. The first product endorsed by Tendulkar as teenager was 'Band-Aid'.
50. In 1995, a sports management deal with WorldTel saw Sachin becoming the richest cricketer in the world.
What's the topic of discussion between Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag & Javagal Srinath??
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AB - you beauty - the fastest South African to 6000 ODI runs and the second-fastest ever after Sir Viv. Such a talent and he is just 29-years old.
