• It was the 1736th ODI in cricket history.

• It was India's 470th and New Zealand's 381st match – 59th between these two sides. The record now reads : New Zealand 26, India 30, abandoned 3.

• Umpires DN Pathirana and G Silva were officiating in their 11th and eighth match respectively.

• Rahul Dravid was playing his 150th match. He became 56th player overall and tenth Indian to do so.

• Zaheer Khan became second Indian after Debabis Mohanty to claim a wicket off the first ball of the match when he trapped Matthew Sinclair LBW. Mohanty had West Indian makeshift opener Ridley Jacobs caught by Nikhil Chopra at Singapore (Kallang) on September 5,1999. In addition there have been four instances of an Indian bowler capturing a wicket off the first ball of the opponent's innings (second innings of the match).

• Nathan Astle (117) scored his tenth hundred in ODIs in his 135th match. The hundred was Astle's third against India which equals the tally of Chris Cairns for New Zealand.

• The hundred was fifth for Astle in his 51st floodlit match- only one less than all other Kiwi batsmen have scored in floodlit matches. Others with hundred in floodlit matches for New Zealand are Stephen Fleming (2), Matthew Sinclair (2), Chris Harris (1) and Chris Cairns(1).

• Astle, on 26,completed his 2000 runs in `away' matches for New Zealand. At the end of this match Astle has a tally of 2091 runs from 77 matches. He became 62nd batsman in all and fifth New Zealander after Martin Crowe (2820 runs in 86 matches), John Wright (2752 in 106),Stephen Fleming (2323 in 89) and Adam Parore (2032 in 90) to do so. Incidentally India's Sachin Tendulkar with 6712 runs from 183 appearances holds the record of aggregating most runs in a career in `away' matches.

• India's total (127) was its second lowest in all matches against New Zealand after the 113 (in 44.2 overs) at Perth on January 18,1986.

• India's total was the joint sixth lowest total to include an individual fifty (Laxman- 60). It was also the second lowest such total for India. The accompanying table has the details :

Total (Overs)	Batsman (Score)	Countries	Venue	Date
101 (26.5)	HH Gibbs (59*)	SA v Pak	Sharjah	28-03-2000
117 (41.3)	Inzamam-ul-Haq (51*)	Pak v WI	Kingston	12-04-2000
123 (40.3)	NC Johnson (54)	Zim v Pak	The Oval	11-06-1999
125 (48.2)	IT Botham (60)	Eng v WI	Kingstown	04-02-1981
125 (45)	SC Ganguly (50)	Ind v Pak	Sharjah	16-04-1999
126 (37.2)	MA Taylor (50)	Aus v NZ	Wellington	24-03-1993
127 (27.2)	EH Mattis (62)	WI v Eng	Kingstown	04-02-1981
127 (31.3)	CJ Nevin (50)	NZ v Pak	Sharjah	15-04-2001
127 (40.1)	DI Gower (53)	Eng v NZ	Christchurch	26-02-1983
127 (41.1)	VVS Laxman (60)	Ind v NZ	Colombo RPS	20-07-2001

• Laxman's 60 represented 47.24% of India's total – the fourth maximum by any Indian batsman in a completed innings.The details :

Batsman	%	Score	Total	Vs	Venue	Date
AD Jadeja	48.78	100*	205	Aus	The Oval	04-06-1999
SC Ganguly	47.48	113	238	SL	Colombo RPS	20-08-1997
NS Sidhu	47.24	94	199	SL	Singapore	03-04-1996
VVS Laxman	47.24	60	127	NZ	Colombo RPS	20-07-2001
M Azharuddin	46.15	90	195	SA	Calcutta	24-11-1993
NS Sidhu	45.63	73	160	NZ	Napier	16-02-1995
SR Tendulkar	45.37	93	205	SL	Dhaka	01-06-2000
AD Jadeja	45.19	61	135	Pak	Jaipur	24-03-1999
Kapil Dev	45.08	87	193	WI	Nagpur	08-12-1987
DB Vengsarkar	44.00	77	175	Aus	Trivandrum	01-10-1984
M Prabhakar	43.88	86	196	SL	Colombo RPS	12-08-1993
M Amarnath	43.04	34*	79	Pak	Sialkot	13-10-1978
SM Gavaskar	40.65	63	155	Pak	Sharjah	17-11-1985
SR Tendulkar	40.43	93	230	Pak	Hobart	21-01-2000
SR Tendulkar	40.31	77	191	WI	Brisbane	11-01-1992
SC Ganguly	40.00	50	125	Pak	Sharjah	16-04-1999

• Chris Harris by holding four catches equalled the record of most catches by a fielder in a match for New Zealand. Ken Rutherford had taken four catches also against India at Napier on February 16,1995. Harris also became 14th fielder in ODIs to take four catches in a match as a fielder with South African Jonty Rhodes being alone in holding as many as five.

• India suffered its third worst defeat against New Zealand in terms of margin of runs. New Zealand had beaten India by 108 runs at Dunedin on March 1,1990 and by 99 runs at Nagpur on November 26,1995.

• Nathan Astle was winning his 17th Man of the Match award. He is now only three away of Martin Crowe's New Zealand record of 20 MoM awards.

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