• It was the 1731st ODI in cricket history.

• It was India's 467th and West Indies' 426th match.

• It was the 64th match between these two sides. The record now reads :India 22,West Indies 40,tied one and abandoned one.

• Umpires C Coventry and QJ Goosen were officiating in their third and eighth match respectively.

• Harvinder Singh was making a comeback into Indian side after more than two years. He had last appeared for India against Australia at Sharjah on April 22,1998 thus missing 110 matches in between. Only Ashish Kapoor (157) and Robin Singh (146) have missed more matches in between two consecutive appearances for India than Harvinder. Harvinder's new ball partner Debasis Mohanty was also making a comeback into Indian side after missing 35 matches.

• Shivnarine Chanderpaul was playing his 100th match. He became 17th West Indian and 113th player overall to do so.

• Mohanty, at the end of this match, has a tally of 50 wickets from 35 games in `away' matches with an average of 25.18 and strike rate of 30.92 . Interestingly he has taken only 6 wickets in 7 matches at home soil with an average of 49.00 and strike rate of 55.00 !!

• Mohanty thus became the 11th Indian to aggregate 50 wickets in a career in `away' matches. Only Manoj Prabhakar (33) and Ajit Agarkar (33) have completed 50 wickets on foreign soil in lesser matches than Mohanty. However Mohanty now holds the Indian record of being the fastest to capture 50 wickets on foreign soil (1546 till the end of this match) The previous record for India was held by Manoj Prabhakar who had bowled 1700 balls for his 50 wickets. The table `A' gives details of Indian bowlers with most wickets in `away' matches , while table `B' lists Indian bowlers in terms of ball required.

Wkts	Bowler	M	Balls	Runs	Ave	Best	SR	RpO	5W
171	J Srinath	124	6529	4844	28.33	5/23	38.18	4.45	1
168	A Kumble	137	7235	5024	29.90	5/33	43.07	4.17	1
153	N Kapil Dev	140	7137	4228	27.63	5/43	46.65	3.55	1
129	BKV Prasad	113	5718	4395	34.07	5/27	44.33	4.61	1
92	M Prabhakar	65	3244	2209	24.01	4/25	35.26	4.09	0
77	RJ Shastri	93	4281	2875	37.34	5/15	55.60	4.03	1
70	AB Agarkar	49	2648	2250	32.14	4/35	37.83	5.10	0
59	RMH Binny	50	2233	1560	26.44	4/29	37.85	4.19	0
52	SR Tendulkar	181	3510	2863	55.06	4/34	67.50	4.89	0
51	S Madan Lal	39	1946	1220	23.92	4/20	38.16	3.76	0
50	DS Mohanty	35	1546	1259	25.18	4/56	30.92	4.89	0