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Final: India v West Indies, Statistical highlights
Rajneesh Gupta - 9 September 1999

  • West Indies registered its 14th tournament win (consisting of three or more teams) and first since winning Champions Trophy at Sharjah in November 1993.

  • West Indies now has the best tournament winning rate.It has won 14 tournaments out of the 34 it has played in (winning percentage 41.17).The previous record was on the name of Australia (40.00).

  • Sachin Tendulkar was dismissed without scoring for the 11th time in his career.Walsh is the only bowler who has dismissed Tendulkar twice without scoring (the previous such occasion was at

  • Walsh has now dismissed Tendulkar 6 times in 16 matches- thus equalling Pakistan's Azhar Mahmood's record of dis- missing Tendulkar on most occasions than any other bowler (Mahmood has dismissed Tendulkar six times in 20 matches).

  • Tendulkar's wicket was 220th for Walsh in his ODI career. He now holds the record of taking most ODI wickets for West Indies jointly with Curtly Ambrose.However Ambrose has played in 165 matches as against Walsh's 196.

  • Rahul Dravid,on 52,completed his 3000 runs in ODIs.He was playing his 96th match and 89th innings.Dravid became 11th Indian and 57th batsman to reach this milestone.Among the Indians only Navjot Sidhu has completed 3000 runs in lesser innings - 79.

  • Dravid scored his sixth hundred in ODI career.It was his second hundred as 'keeper (the earlier one was against SriLanka at Taunton on 26 May 1999).Now only Australia's Adam Gilchrist has scored more hundreds in role of keeper than Dravid,while England's Alec Stewart and Kenya's Kennedy Otieno have also scored two hundreds each.

  • The fifth wicket partnership of 102 runs between Dravid and Nikhil Chopra is India's best for this wicket against West Indies.This obliterates the previous record stand of 96 between Navjot Sidhu and Atul Bedade at Faridabad on 17 October 1994.

  • Brian Lara was playing his 150th match.He became ninth WestIndian and 39th player in the world to do so.

  • Richardo Powell scored his maiden hundred in only his fifth match.By taking only 72 balls to reach the three figure mark,he has equalled the WestIndian record of fastest ODI hundred.Viv Richards had also taken 72 balls to complete his hundred during his knock of 149 at Jamshedpur on 07 December 1983 - also against India.

Balls 37 Shahid Afridi (102) Pak v SL Nairobi Gym 04-10-96 48 ST Jayasuriya (134) SL v Pak Singapore 02-04-96 62 M Azharuddin (108*) Ind v NZ Baroda 17-12-88 67 BasitAli (127*) Pak v WI Sharjah 05-11-93 68 Ijaj Ahmed (139*) Pak v Ind Lahore 02-10-97 71 SR Tendulkar(124*) Ind v Zim Sharjah 13-11-98 72 ZaheerAbbas (118) Pak v Ind Multan 17-12-82 72 IVA Richards (149) WI v Ind Jamshedpur 07-12-83 72 ST Jayasuriya (108) SL v BD Colomb SSC 22-07-97 72 R Powell (124) WI v Ind Singapore 08-09-99 73 Javed Miandad (119*) Pak v Ind Lahore 31-12-82 75 IVA Richards (110*) WI v Ind Rajkot 05-01-88 75 CL Cairns (115) NZ v Ind Christchurc 19-01-99

  • Powell's 8 sixes also equals the best effort by a WestIndian in terms of maximum sixes in an innings.Gordon Greenidge had also hit 8 sixes during his knock of 117 against India at St.John's on 18 March 1989.Only Sanath Jayasuriya,Shahid Afridi (11 each) and Ijaz Ahmed (9) have hit more sixes in an innings than Powell.The details :

Sixes 11 ST Jayasuriya (134) SL v Pak Singapore 02-04-96 11 Shahid Afridi (102) Pak v SL Nairobi Gym 04-10-96 9 Ijaj Ahmed (139*) Pak v Ind Lahore 02-10-97 8 CG Greenidge (117) WI v Ind St.John's 18-03-89 8 R Powell (124) WI v Ind Singapore 08-09-99 7 IVA Richards (181) WI v SL Karachi 13-10-87 7 IVA Richards (110*) WI v Ind Rajkot 05-01-88 7 SR Tendulkar(101) Ind v Aus Kanpur 07-04-98 7 CL Cairns (115) NZ v Ind Christchurch 19-01-99 7 DJ Cullinan (94) SA v NZ Auckland 27-03-99 7 SC Ganguly (183) Ind v SL Taunton 26-05-99

  • At 20 years 266 days Powell is the youngest WestIndian and fourth youngest in the world to score maiden ODI hundred. The record is held by Pakistan's Shahid Afridi.The details :

Age
Yrs-dys
16-217  Shahid Afridi   102   Pak  v SL    Nairobi Gym     04-10-96
18-312  Salim Elahi     102   Pak  v SL    Gujranwala      29-09-95
20-39   Ijaj Ahmed      124   Pak  v BD    Chittagong      29-10-88
20-266  R Powell        124   WI   v Ind   Singapore       08-09-99
21      VG Kambli       100   Ind  v Eng   Jaipur          18-01-93

  • Powell's innings is the second highest by any batsman at batting position 6 after India's Kapil Dev's 175* against Zimbabwe at Tunbridge Wells on 18 June 1983.

  • The sixth wicket partnership of 118 runs between Powell and Nehemiah Perry is West Indies' best for this wicket against India.This betters the previous record stand of 83 (unbroken) between Keith Arthurton and Carl Hooper at Wellington on 10 March 1992.

  • Powell won his first MoM award.