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Key tournament statistics up to Feb 24

Notable statistics after 16days of the 2003 cricket World Cup:

  • Seven centuries were scored in the first 14 matches, with a further three posted in the next 11. The highest was recorded by Zimbabwe’s Craig Wishart, with a 149-ball 172 not out – the 10th highest in history, 16 runs behind the World Cup record and 22 behind the one-day all-time record – against Namibia in Harare (Feb 10).

  • The first 25 matches have produced a total of 9,338 runs, at an average of 186.76 per innings. There have been four innings scores above 300, while 20 have totalled below 150.

  • Australia’s Ian Harvey, a late addition to the Australia squad after Shane Watson’s injury, took a wicket with his first ball of the tournament by removing Pakistan’s Saleem Elahi at The Wanderers. Harvey ended with four for 58, Australia won by 82 runs and Harvey was dropped next match (Feb 11).

  • Austin Codrington, a 27-year-old dreadlocked plumber from Canada, took the first five-wicket haul of the tournament, setting up an upset win over Bangladesh in Durban with 5-27 (Feb 11).

  • Sachin Tendulkar became the top run-scorer in World Cup history during his 52 against the Netherlands, over hauling former Pakistan batsman Javed Miandad’s total of 1,083 runs when he had reached 25 (Feb 12) He scored 152 in the 181-run win over Namibia (Feb 23) to match Australian Mark Waugh’s career total of four World Cup hundreds.

  • India’s Javagal Srinath became the fifth bowler to take 300 one-day wickets when dismissing Dutchman Feiko Kloppenburg in Paarl (Feb 12).

  • Left-armer Chaminda Vaas created cricket history with a hat-trick off the first three balls of the match against Bangladesh on the way to final figures of 6-25 in Pietermaritzburg (Feb 14). After three matches, Vaas boasted nine wickets at 6.88 apiece.

  • England, having refused to play in Zimbabwe, bowled their first ball of the World Cup against the Netherlands in East London (Feb 16) 163 hours and 30 minutes after the tournament began.

  • West Indies’ Ricardo Powell hit a 30-ball 50, the fastest of the tournament, against Bangladesh in Benoni (Feb 18) to join Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi as the only two batsmen scoring at more than a run a ball in their one-day careers.

  • Canada were skittled for 36, the lowest total in one-day international history, as Sri Lanka crushed them by nine wickets victory in Paarl (Feb 19). Sri Lanka eased home in only 4.4 overs, completing the second fastest run-chase ever inlimited-overs internationals.

  • Bangladesh’s 10-wicket defeat to South Africa in Bloemfontein (Feb 22) meant they had not won for a world record 30 one-dayers in a row, spreading over four years and all the way back to the 1999 World Cup. Of those, 28 were defeats (including a world-record 23 in a row) with the other two rained off. They have also lost 16 of their 17 test matches, with bad weather saving them in the other.

  • England 20-year-old James Anderson took four wickets for 29 to set up a 112-run shock win over Pakistan (Feb 22), taking the fast bowler to the top of the World Cup wicket-taking list alongside Wasim Akram and Chaminda Vaas. Anderson had been playing club cricket at the start of 2002.

  • Canada’s John Davison scored the fastest century in World Cup history against West Indies (Feb 23), reaching three figures off 67 deliveries to break Indian Kapil Dev’s 1983 mark by five balls. Brian Lara hit the quickest fifty of the tournament, his half-century coming off just 23 balls. The West Indies innings of 206 for three in 20.3 overs produced the fastest runs per over ever recorded in a one-day innings, at 10.04.

  • Sachin Tendulkar’s 152 against Namibia in Pietermaritzburg (Feb 23) gave him a fourth World Cup century, equalling Australian Mark Waugh’s record mark as well as extending his one-day international record to 34 hundreds.

  • Australia’s seven-wicket victory over Zimbabwe in Bulawayo (Feb 24) was their 10th consecutive one-day international win, just one behind the record set by West Indies between June 1984 and February 1985.

  • Kenya’s Collins Obuya took five for 24, the ninth best bowling figures in World Cup history, to set up a shock 53-run victory over Sri Lanka in Nairobi (Feb 24).

Source: Cricket Next.com

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No mention of the fact that Wasim became the first bowler to cross the 50 wickets mark in WC.

I think also Wasim acheived the record of the highest number of appearances in a world cup.

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*Originally posted by ehsan: *
No mention of the fact that Wasim became the first bowler to cross the 50 wickets mark in WC.

I think also Wasim acheived the record of the highest number of appearances in a world cup.
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What do you expect, its from an Indian website.

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Key tournament statistics up to Feb 24
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yaar don't just start critisizing. Know the facts. Wasim took 500th wicket on 25.

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28th match: WC Statistical highlights (Pak v Holl at Paarl on 25-2-2003)
** Pakistan becomes the first team to play the Dutch on three occasions in LOIs. England have earlier played the side two times.

** The partnership of 42 runs between Yousuf Youhana and Shoaib Akhtar was a record for the eight wicket at this ground bettering the previous best of 28 runs achieved twice between Indians Robin Singh & Anil Kumble against Zimbabwe on 27-1-1997 and between Dutchmen Daan van Bunge & Edgar Schiferli against India on 12-2-2003.

** The Youhana-Akhtar partnership was also the best against Holland in the LOIs for the 8th wicket. Indians Dinesh Mongia and Anil Kumble had put on 17 at this same venue two weeks ago on 12-2-2003.

** The ninth wicket partnership of seven runs between Shoaib Akhtar and Waqar Younis and the unbeaten tenth wicket stand of eight runs between Shoaib Akhtar and Saqlain Mushtaq were the best for these wickets by any team against Holland in LOIs.

** The two wickets by Tim de Leede makes him the highest wicket-taker for Holland in LOIs. He now has 8 wickets in 11 matches, just one more than the tally of 7 wickets by Roland Lefebvre in 10 matches. Interestingly all the eight wickets for de Leede came in his last four matches. He had gone wicketless in his first seven matches. For the record, de Leede with 242 runs is also the highest run-getter for Holland in LOIs.

** Daan van Bange (2-27) now has the best bowling figures for Holland against Pakistan. The previous best was the 1-18 by Peter Cantrell at Lahore on 26-2-1996.

**** When he claimed the wicket of Dutch opener Nick Statham, Wasim Akram became the first bowler to capture 500 wickets in LOI history. Playing in his 354th match, Wasim now has 502 wickets to his credit. **

** These bowlers were the first to reach the following milestones in LOIs:

First to 50 wkts: DK Lillee (Aus) on 18-12-1980
First to 100 wkts: DK Lillee (Aus) on 9-12-1983
First to 150 wkts: Kapil Dev (Ind) on 27-10-1988
First to 200 wkts: Kapil Dev (Ind) on 22-10-1991
First to 250 wkts: Kapil Dev (Ind) on 27-3-1994
First to 300 wkts: Wasim Akram (Pak) on 30-10-1996
First to 350 wkts: Wasim Akram (Pak) on 11-4-1998
First to 400 wkts: Wasim Akram (Pak) on 19-1-2000
First to 450 wkts: Wasim Akram (Pak) on 12-4-2002+
First to 500 wkts: Wasim Akram (Pak) on 25-2-2003 + the only bowler to reach this milestone

** This was Holland’s eleventh LOI loss in a row since its debut in February 1996.

** This was Yousuf Youhana’s 10th man of the match award of his career in 125 matches. This was Youhana’s second in the WC. He had received an award against Scotland at Chester-le-Street on 20-5-1999.

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yaar don't just start critisizing. Know the facts. Wasim took 500th wicket on 25.
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Wasim crossed the 50 wicket mark before the 24th.

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I was talking about 500 wickets not 50 wickets. Read the staistics from CricketNext.com. It is mentioned there. Anyway.

14th match: WC Statistical hightlights (Pak v Nam at Kimberley on 16-2-2003)

** Melt van Schoor and Rudi van Vuuren became the 12th and 13th players to appear for Namibia in LOIs.

**** Pakistani Wasim Akram became the most capped player in the WC. He was appearing in his 34th match which takes him past the tally of 33 matches each by Pakistani Javed Miandad and Australian Steve Waugh. **

** Saeed Anwar, who last appeared in a LOI match for Pakistan in the ICC Trophy at Colombo in September last, became the second highest run scorer for Pakistan in the WC during his brief knock of 23 runs. He now has an aggregate of 720 runs in 17 matches, which takes him past the tally of 700 runs by Rameez Raja in 16 matches. Javed Miandad continues to be Pakistan’s top run-getter in the WC with 1083 runs in 33 matches.

** The figures of 2-51 by Gerrie Snyman and Bjorn Kotze now represents the joint best bowling performance for Namibia in LOIs.

** Wasim Akram (5-28 in 9 overs) became the second bowler to take a five wicket haul at this venue after England’s Mark Ealham, who incidentally has the best bowling figures of 5-15 against Zimbabwe on 30-1-2000 at Kimberley.

** This was the sixth occasion the Pakistani left arm pace bowler was taking a five-wicket haul in his career. He now joins teammate Saqlain Mushtaq, Sri Lankan Muttiah Muralitharan and South African Lance Klusener to become the fourth bowler to achieve this feat on six occasions in LOIs. However he is still short of the record haul of five-plus wickets by teammate Waqar Younis, who has done it a record 13 times!.

** These five wickets have taken Wasim Akram’s career tally to 498 in 352 LOI matches.

** Meanwhile, Wasim Akram became the first bowler in WC history to capture 50 wickets when he captured the wicket of Melt van Schoor. He now has 51 wickets in 34 matches in the WC.

** Inzamam ul Haq’s catch of Stephan Swanepoel was his 12th catch in the WC (in 28 matches). This makes him the fielder with most catches for Pakistan in WC. Both Miandad (in 33 matches) and Ijaz Ahmed (in 29 matches) have 11 catches each in the WC.

** The partnership of 42 runs between Bjorn Kotze and debutant Rudi van Vuuren was the fourth highest for the last wicket in the WC. The highest still remains as 71 runs between West Indians Andy Roberts & Joel Garner against India at Manchester on 9-6-1983.

** The above partnership was also the second highest for the 10th wicket against Pakistan in the WC. The best still remains as the unbeaten 64 between West Indians Deryck Murray and Andy Roberts at Birmingham on 11-6-1975.

** This was the first occasion in LOI history where the last wicket stand has contributed 50% of the teams total.

** Namibia’s 84 (in 17.4 overs) was the fourth lowest total in the WC after the 45 by Canada (in 1979), 68 by Scotland (in 1999) and 74 by Pakistan (in 1992).

** This was the lowest score made against Pakistan by any team in the WC. The previous lowest was the 123 by Zimbabwe at The Oval on 11-6-1999.

** This was the lowest total at this venue by any team. Bangladesh had made 151 (43.1 overs) against the home side on 9-10-2002.

** Namibia’s innings that lasted 17.4 overs was the third shortest in terms of overs by any team in LOIs after Zimbabwe, who were dismissed for 38 in 15.4 overs by Sri Lanka at SSC, Colombo on 8-12-2001 & Sri Lanka who were dismissed for 78 in 16.5 overs by Pakistan at Sharjah on 17-4-2002.

** The man of the match award was Wasim Akram’s 21st of his career in 352 matches. This was Wasim’s only second such award in the WC in 34 matches. His only other award in the WC came in the 1992 WC final against England on 25-3-1992 for scoring 33 and taking 3-49.