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Rajneesh Gupta09-Mar-2002India’s dismal performance at Faridabad continued with their lossto Zimbabwe. The hosts have won only one match out of the fivethey have played on this ground.India’s total of 274 for six was the highest ever achieved onthis ground, although Zimbabwe surpassed it and set a new highduring their chase. The previous highest was 273 for five by WestIndies against India on October 17, 1994.Ajit Agarkar’s score is the highest by any Indian playing exactly19 balls in an one-day innings. Sachin Tendulkar had previouslyscored 30 against England at The Oval on May 23, 1996.Douglas Marillier (56*) scored his second fifty in his 26thmatch; it is also his highest score in one-day internationals,beating the 52* off 68 balls against Sri Lanka at Sharjah onOctober 30, 2001Marillier raced to his fifty off just 21 balls – the fastestfifty by a Zimbabwean in all one-dayers. He bettered the previousrecord of Andy Flower, who took 29 balls to complete his fiftyduring his innings of 53 against Sri Lanka at Harare on December18, 1999.Marillier’s fifty is also the fastest by any batsman againstIndia, putting into shade Pakistani Salim Malik’s 23-ball fifty,which came during his match-winning innings of 72* at Kolkata onFebruary 18, 1987.Marillier’s score is the highest for any number 10 batsman inone-day history. Pakistan’s Abdur Razzaq (v South Africa atDurban on April 3, 1998) and India’s Harbhajan Singh (v Australiaat Visakhapatnam on April 3, 2001) were the previous joint recordholders with identical scores of 46.Interestingly, the previous record for the highest individualinnings at number 10 against India was also held by a Zimbabwean.Andrew Whittall had scored 29 at Bulawayo QC on September 26,1998.Marillier scored 46 of his runs in boundaries (10×4, 1×6) duringhis innings – a boundary percentage of 82.14. Only two batsmen -New Zealand’s Craig Spearman (88.23% at Rajkot on November 5,1999) and Sri Lanka’s Aravinda de Silva (84.84% at Calcutta onMarch 13, 1996) have achieved a higher boundary percentage in aninnings of 50 or more against India. Just for the record,Australia’s Matthew Hayden (96.00 % v New Zealand at Auckland onFebruary 19, 2000) holds the one-day record.The two catches in Zimbabwe’s innings have taken Sourav Ganguly’stally of catches to 32 while captaining India. This moves himahead of Kapil Dev and Sachin Tendulkar, who took 31 catches eachas India’s capatain. Only Mohammad Azharuddin, with 83 catches,is ahead of Ganguly.Zaheer Khan captured four wickets for the third time in hiscareer. Interestingly his other two four-wicket hauls also cameagainst Zimbabwe. Zaheer had the figures of 4-42 at Sharjah onOctober 26, 2000. He then returned identical figures at BulawayoQC on June 27, 2001.Anil Kumble (9.4-0-70-1) conceded 70 runs off his bowling in amatch for only third time in a career spanning 222 matches. Hisworst performance came against New Zealand at Christchurch onJanuary 19, 1999, when he conceded 78 runs in 10 overs. The otheroccasion when he went for more than 70 runs was against Australiaat Adelaide on January 26, 2000. Kumble then conceded 71 runs inhis 10 overs.India lost a one-dayer for the third successive time in the lastover of the match. It lost to England by two runs at Delhi onJanuary 31 and by five runs at Mumbai on February 3 earlier thisyear.India lost a match by one wicket for the third time. It alsosuffered losses by this margin against Pakistan at Sharjah onApril 18, 1986, and against Zimbabwe at Jodhpur on December 8,2000.