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1st ODI: Zimbabwe v Australia, Statistical Highlights
Rajneesh Gupta - 23 October 1999
- It was the first ever Test match between these two sides.
Australia became seventh team to play against all other
Test playing nations.Now only WestIndies and Zimbabwe have
not played against all other 8 Test playing nations.Interes-
tingly these two have not appeared against each other.
- It was the 597th Test for Australia and 34th for Zimbabwe.
- Umpires George Sharp and Ian Robinson were umpiring in their
10th and 20th Test respectively.
- Trevor Gripper was making his debut.He became 41st Zimbabwean
to play Test cricket.Gripper's second innings' effort (60) is
the fourth highest score by a Zimbabwean batsman on debut
after Dave Houghton's 121 v India at Harare in 1992-93, Grant
Flower's 82 also v India at Harare in 1992-93 and Murray Goodwin's
70 v SriLanka at Kandy in 1997-98. Gripper became seventh Zimbabwean
to score a fifty on debut. Apart from these four other to do so are:
Andy Flower (59,v India,Harare,1992-93),Gavin Rennie (57,v New-
Zealand,Harare,1997-98) and Andy Waller (50,v England,Bulawayo,
1996-97).
- Steve Waugh scored his 20th hundred in his th Test. He became
6th Australian after Don Bradman (29),Allan Border (27),Greg
Chappel EC (24), Neil Harvey (21) and David Boon (21) and 17th
batsman to do so (India's Sachin Tendulkar became 16th batsman
to do so three days back).
- Waugh's innings is the fourth highest by a batsman on his first
appearance against Zimbabwe after India's Vinod Kambli's 227
at Delhi in 1992-93,SriLanka's Marvan Atapattu's 223 at Kandy
in 1997-98 and Pakistan's Mohammad Wasim's 192 at Harare in
1997-98.Overall it was 13th instance of a batsman scoring a
hundred oh his first appearance against Zimbabwe.
- Steve Waugh's innings is the highest by any batsman at batting
position 5 against Zimbabwe obliterating Pakistan's Yousuf
Youhana's 120 at Lahore in 1998-99.
- Steve Waugh's innings is the fifth highest by any batsman against
Zimbabwe and second highest by a captain after Pakistan's Wasim
Akram's 257 at Sheikhupura in 1996-97.
- Damien Fleming's innings (65) is the third highest by any batsman
against Zimbabwe at batting position 9 after NewZealand's Daniel
Vettori's 90 at Bulawayo in 1997-98 and Pakistan's Saqlain Mush-
taq's 79 at Sheikhupura in 1996-97. However it was the highest at
this position by batsman playing his first Test against Zimbabwe.
- The 114 run partnership between Steve Waugh and Damien Fleming is
the second highest for eighth wicket against Zimbabwe after the
world record 313 run stand between Wasim Akram and Saqlain Mushtaq
for Pakistan at Sheikhupura in 1996-97.
- Mark Waugh by holding five catches in the match equalled the tally
of five other fieldsmen (Inzamam-ul-Haq, Pubuddu Dassanayake, Roshan
Mahanama, Chris Harris and Robin Singh)'s record of five catches in
a match against Zimbabwe. However record is on the name of NewZealand's
Stephen Fleming who held seven catches against Zimbabwe at Harare
in 1997-98.
- Heath Streak captured five wickets in an innings for the fourth
time in his career-most by a Zimbabwean. He was earlier at level
with Paul Strang with three five wicket hauls.
- Mark Waugh on 78, surpassed Neil Harvey's tally of 6149 runs
(@ 48.41 in 79 matches) to become the seventh leading scorer
for Australia.Mark Waugh, at the end of this match has scored
6161 runs in 94 matches.
- Mark Waugh became a victim of nervous nineties for second time
in his career.The previous such occasion for him was against
England at Lord's in 1993 when he was out on 99.
- Murray Goodwin followed his first ball duck in first innings
with 90 in the second.He became second Zimbabwean after Grant
Flower (96 & 0,v India, Delhi, 1992-93) to score duck and ninety
in the same match.
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