da bet sport: It was the 1719th One-Day International match in cricket history
da pinup bet: Rajneesh Gupta08-Jun-2001It was the 1719th One-Day International match in cricket history.It was England’s 326th and Pakistan’s 495th ODI match.It was the 47th match between these two sides. The record now reads :Pakistan 18, England 28, abandoned one.It was the 21st match between these two sides in England. The recordnow reads : Pakistan 6,England 15.Umpires Barry Dudleston and John Hampshire were officiating in theirfourth and 19th match respectively.Paul Collingwood (a 25 years old right handed batsman and right armoff break/ medium fast bowler) became 162nd player to representEngland in ODIs.Rashid Latif was making a comeback into Pakistan side after aboutthree years. He had last played for Pakistan against South Africa atCape Town on 23-04-1998.Latif thus missed 92 matches in between twoconsecutive appearances. Only Sajid Ali (154), Sikander Bakht (117),Aamer Malik (93) and Manzoor Elahi (93) have missed more matches inbetween two appearances for Pakistan.Inzamam-ul-Haq (79),when on 74,completed his 8000 runs in One-DayInternationals. He was playing his 244th match and 231st innings.Inzamam became second Pakistani and seventh batsman overall to achievethis landmark. Inzamam joined the august company of two Indians SachinTendulkar (10179 runs in 268 matches) and Mohammad Azharuddin (9378 in334), one West Indian Desmond Haynes (8648 in 238),one Sri LankanAravinda de Silva (8432 in 275), one Australian Mark Waugh (8245 in232) and fellow teammate Saeed Anwar (8162 in 224).Inzamam has now aggregated 2623 runs in 80 matches on opponents’ soils(excluding matches at neutral venues). He has now surpassed JavedMiandad’s Pakistani record of most runs in such matches. Miandad had atally of 2573 runs from 76 matches on opponents’ soils. IncidentallyWest Indian Viv Richards with 3921 runs from 88 matches holds theworld record in this category of statistics.The third wicket partnership of 150 runs between Anwar and Inzamam isPakistan’s best for this wicket against England. This obliterated theprevious highest of 145 between Ijaz Ahmed and Inzamam at Sharjah on07-04-1999.The wicket of Younis Khan was 56th for Darren Gough on English soil.With this he has equalled Ian Botham’s tally of most wickets at homesoil. However Gough needed only 33 matches as against Botham’s 47.The catch of Alec Stewart was seventh for Shoaib Malik as asubstitute. He has now equalled New Zealander John Bracewell andcountryman Shoaib Mohammad’s tally of catches. Only Sri Lankan UpulChandana (8) has taken more catches as a substitute.The victory margin of 108 runs was largest for Pakistan againstEngland in all matches. The previous biggest win for Pakistan overEngland was by 90 runs at Sharjah on 07-04-1999.The defeat was England’s second worst for England at home soil. SouthAfrica had registered a 122 run victory at The Oval on 22-05-1999 in aWorld Cup game which still remains England’s worst ever defeat at homesoil.Saeed Anwar was winning his 27th Man of the Match award. He has nowequalled Sri Lanka’s Aravinda de Silva’s tally of MoM awards. Now onlyIndia’s Sachin Tendulkar (38) and West Indian Viv Richards (31) havewon more awards than Anwar.






