Blog Posts by HR Gopala Krishna

India's 5-0 win over England is the 26^th
instance of an ODI series win by that margin.

India have done it thrice now - and twice against
England. It was also the third such defeat for England.

The whole list:

MS Dhoni's
75 not out against England
in the final One-day game at Kolkata on 25.10.11 was his 50^th fifty
as a wicket-keeper batsman. He became the fourth wicket-keeper batsman in the
annals of One-day games to score 50 fifties. Others are KC Sangakkara {72}, AC
Gilchrist {69} and A Flower {50}.

MS Dhoni
completed 4000 runs in the dual role as captain wicket-keeper batsman to reach
the milestone in the annals of One-day games. He completed 4000 runs when he
was on 55 during his knock of 75 not out at Kolkata on 25.10.11. At the end of
this game his run aggregate stood at 4020. Apart from MS Dhoni, KC Sangakkara

Zimbabwe
captain - BRM Taylor scored a hundred - 107 not out against New Zealand in the
second One-day game at Harare on 22.10.11 - only to see that it did not fetch a
win for his team. His hundred provides the 44^th hundred in One-day
games of a captain's hundred in a losing cause.

BRM Taylor has witnessed three
hundreds in vain as a captain in One-day games. He is the second captain after
CH Gayle of West Indies to witness three
hundreds in a losing cause. Thus BRM Taylor and CH Gayle share this dubious
distinction of most hundreds by captains going in vain in One day games.

The
following is the list of captains who have witnessed hundreds in a losing cause
on two or more occasions:

KC
Sangakkara's 211 in Sri Lanka's
second innings in the test against Pakistan
at Abu Dhabi
provides the 29^th occasion of a batsman scoring a double hundred in
the team's second innings. The following is the complete list

Mark Boucher
became the second wicket-keeper in the annals of One-day games to pouch 400
catches as wicket-keeper. He achieved the feat when he caught DA Warner of M
Morkel for 74 in the second One-day game at Port Elizabeth on 23.10.11. The other wicket-keeper
to pouch 400 catches is AC Gilchrist of Australia {417}

Mark Boucher
has pouched a catch when not keeping the wicket. He took a catch to dismiss DM
Bravo of van der Merwe for 17 in the game against West Indies at Trinidad on
03.06.10, AB de Villers kept wickets for South Africa in this game.

His 400
catches comprise of 8 catches representing Asia Eleven and 392 catches
representing South Africa.
His performance against each opposition he has played is furnished below.

Kumar Sangakkara's innings of 211 in Abu Dhabi is his eighth
Test double hundred, moving him past England great Wally Hammond, who had
seven.

Sangakkara trails only Don Bradman, who made 12 scores
of 200 or more - in just 52 Tests - and Brian Lara, who had nine. Both those
batsmen had two triple hundreds, while Sangakkara's highest is 287.

The batsmen with the most doubles:

It took India nearly 22 years of playing ODI
cricket to cross 300 for the
first time in a match and they were the last major cricket team to reach
that score. Even Zimbabwe had achieved the feat many years
earlier.

But once there, India have now made scores of 300
or more, more times than any other team.

The Mohali ODI provided the 65^th such instance,
and India have now overtaken Australia at 64.

Here's a list of ODI teams
that have crossed 300 in an ODI at least once.

Jonathan Trott's 98 not out against India in the
Mohali ODI is the 41^st ninety by an English batsman in ODIs, and the
12^th against India.

The 12:

Ajinkya Rahane scored 91 in the same game, making
it the 70^th ninety for India in ODIs, and the 11^th
against England.

The 11: