Ganguly emulates Tendulkar

By Mohandas Menon

** Playing his 133rd match, Guy Whittall became Zimbabwe's eighth Limited Over International (LOI) captain and is the third Zimbabwean to do so in as many matches after Grant Flower and Heath Streak.

** Dion Ebrahim (42) recorded his highest ever score of his LOI career. Playing his sixth match, he bettered his previous best of 32, made against India at Harare in the last match on 24-6-2001.

** The 87-run partnership between Ebrahim and Wishart was the best for the third wicket at this venue in LOIs. The pair bettered the previous best of 84 between the Bangladeshi pair of Javed Omar and Habibul Bashar against Zimbabwe on 11-4-2001.

** Zaheer Khan's 4-42 was the best ever figures by an Indian bowler on Zimbabwean soil. The previous best was the three for 36 by Ajit Agarkar in the last match on 24-6-2001. Zaheer also equalled his best figures in LOIs, which was also against Zimbabwe at Sharjah on 26-10-2000.

** During his innings of 85, Sourav Ganguly became only the second batsman, after Sachin Tendulkar, to reach 1000 runs against Zimbabwe. Team-mate Sachin Tendulkar (1242 runs in 30 matches). Ganguly now has 1053 runs in 24 matches.

** For the second time in his career, in 157 matches, Grant Flower has taken four wickets in a match. His best still remains as the 4-32 against Kenya at Dhaka on 23-3-1999.

** Playing his 146th LOI match, Dravid won the sixth man of the match award of his career.

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