• It was the 1733rd ODI in cricket history.

• It was India's 468th and West Indies' 428th match.

• It was the 65th match between these two sides. The record now reads : India 23, West Indies 40, tied one and abandoned one.

• Umpires KC Barbour and GR Evans were officiating in their eighth and 13th match respectively.

• Carl Hooper, on one, completed his 1000 runs in matches against India. He was playing his 35th match and 33rd innings. Hooper also became the third West Indian after Desmond Haynes (1357 runs in 36 matches ) and Gordon Greenidge (1181 runs in 24 matches) and 16th batsman overall to do so. Incidentally Pakistani Saeed Anwar with 1901 runs from 49 matches holds the record of aggregating most runs in a career against India.

• India conceded only five extras in West Indies' innings – two wides and three no-balls. It was only the seventh occasion when Indian bowlers and fielders conceded five or less extras in opponents' total of 200 or more. The details :

Extras
3	India	v Pakistan (252-3)	Lahore	31-12-1982
4	India	v Australia (263-3)	Rajkot	07-10-1986
4	India	v Australia (235-7)	Melbourne	31-01-1986
4	India	v NewZealand (207-3	Sydney	05-03-1985
5	India	v England (250)	Sharjah	11-12-1997
5	India	v Australia (236-4)	Indore	06-10-1984
5	India	v West Indies (229-5)	Harare	04-07-2001

• Tendulkar (122*) when reached 76,completed his 1000 runs against West Indies. He became first Indian and ninth batsman overall to do so. He was playing his 28th match and innings. Tendulkar now holds the record of completing 1000 runs in a career against West Indies in least matches and innings. The earlier record was held by Pakistani Inzamam- ul-Haq who took 33 matches and 32 innings for his 1000 runs.

• The hundred was Tendulkar's 29th in ODIs and second against West Indies. His only other hundred against West Indies was made at Jaipur on November 11,1994 when he scored 105 off 148 balls.

• Tendulkar's innings was the highest score by an Indian against West Indies-home or away. –bettering Navjot Sidhu's 114* at Visakhapatnam on November 7,1994.

• Tendulkar's innings was the highest for India on this ground. The previous highest was a paltry 70* also by Tendulkar against Zimbabwe in the second league match of this series on June 27,2001.

• The hundred was Tendulkar's second in Zimbabwe. The other being 127* against the hosts at Bulawayo QC on September 26,1998. Tendulkar has now become only the third batsman to score more than one hundred on Zimbabwean soil. The others being Alistair Campbell in 42 matches and Roshan Mahanama in three matches.

• The hundred was Tendulkar's 17th on foreign soil-yet another record ! He was earlier at level with Pakistan's Saeed Anwar with 16 hundreds.

• Tendulkar has now aggregated 6712 runs (ave.41.43) in 182 `away' matches- maximum by any batsman in ODIs. He surpassed the aggregates of two Pakistanis – Saeed Anwar (6685 in 186 matches) and Inzamam-ul- Haq (6647 in 209 matches) . The following table lists the leading run- scorers in away matches in ODIs :

Runs	Batsman	For	Mts	Inns	NO	Ave	Hs	100	50	0
6712	SR Tendulkar	Ind	182	178	16	41.43	143	17	32	9
6685	Saeed Anwar	Pak	186	185	11	38.42	194	16	32	11
6647	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pak	209	201	25	37.77	137*	5	49	12
6215	M Azharuddin	Ind	221	206	34	36.13	111*	4	42	6
6208	PA de Silva	SL	213	207	16	32.50	134	6	43	13
6075	DL Haynes	WI	189	188	17	35.53	138*	7	45	11
5916	IVA Richards	WI	154	141	20	48.89	189*	11	38	7
5548	A Ranatunga	SL	201	196	29	33.22	102*	2	35	16
5455	Salim Malik	Pak	218	202	26	30.99	102	3	35	15
5405	Javed Miandad	Pak	165	158	23	40.04	116*	4	39	8
5290	BC Lara	WI	146	144	12	40.08	169	9	34	10

• The 133 run-partnership between Ganguly and Tendulkar was the second highest for India for the opening wicket against West Indies. The best however still remains the 176 run partnership between Ajay Jadeja and Tendulkar at Cuttack on November 9,1994. Incidentally the previous highest opening stand for India against West Indies in `away' matches was unbroken 116 runs also between Ganguly and Tendulkar at Port-of- Spain on April 27,1997.

• Ganguly and Tendulkar also became the third pair to participate in two century partnerships for the opening wicket against West Indies after Australians Adam Gilchrist and Mark Waugh and Indians Ajay Jadeja and Sachin Tendulkar.

• Tendulkar was getting involved in a century partnership for the 47th time in his career- a new world record. The break-up of Tendulkar's century partnerships- 20 for the first,11 for the second,10 for the third,3 for the fourth and 3 for the fifth. The previous record of most century partnerships was on the name of West Indian Desmond Haynes who featured in 46 such partnerships. The following table lists the batsmen who have been involved in most century stands

Batsman	Country	Total	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
SR Tendulkar	India	47	20	11	10	3	3	-	-	-	-	-
DL Haynes	WestIndies	46	26	11	6	1	1	1	-	-	-	-
ME Waugh	Australia	40	14	11	9	4	1	1	-	-	-	-
SC Ganguly	India	37	16	12	5	2	­	1	1	-	-	-
PA DeSilva	SriLanka	35	-	3	22	5	2	2	1	-	-	-
M Azharuddin	India	34	-	5	18	9	1	1	-	-	-	-
IVA Richards	WestIndies	32	-	9	17	3	2	-	-	-	-	1
Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pakistan	30	1	7	5	13	4	-	-	-	-	-

• Tendulkar was winning his 41st Man of the Match award. This was also his sixth award against West Indies- maximum by any player. He was previously at level with Pakistan's Imran Khan with five awards.

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