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Andy Flower's highest against India
Wisden CricInfo staff - March 16, 2002
Playing in his 33rd match, Andy Flower, who made 89, registered his highest score
against India by bettering his previous highest of 78 at Colombo in September 1996.
Meanwhile
Mohammad Kaif, in his seventh ODI, notched up his highest one-day score by making 68. He previous highest of 56 had come in the last one-dayer at Kochi. Clearly, he is going from strength to strength.
Playing in his 29th match,
Yuvraj Singh received his third man-of-the-match award. His earlier such awards came against Australia in November 2000, when he scored 84 in his debut innings - his 2nd match - and against Sri Lanka at Colombo in August 2001 for his unbeaten innings of 98.
Grant Flower, who made 44, now has an aggregate of exactly 1000 runs against India.
Playing in his 32nd match he joins teammates Alistair Campbell (1188 runs in 36
matches) and Andy Flower (1130 in 33 matches) to become the third Zimbabwean to
reach this milestone. He also becomes the 19th batsman to achieve this feat
against India. Saeed Anwar of Pakistan has scored the most ODI runs against India: 1901 in 49 matches.
Ajit Agarkar's 4 for 32 was the second best bowling performance at this venue
after the 5 for 35 by pace bowler Manoj Prabhakar against Sri Lanka In February 1995. Agarkar now has 35 wickets in 21 matches against Zimbabwe - the maximum by any Indian bowler against this team. He went past the previous highest tally of 32 wickets in 20 matches by Anil Kumble.
The fourth-wicket partnership of 76 runs between Rahul Dravid and Mohammad
Kaif was the best for India at this venue, surpassing the previous best of 47
between Sourav Ganguly and Dravid against South Africa in November 1996.
Mohandas Menon is the leading cricket statistician in India.
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