The Hindu : Ganguly emulates Mark Waugh

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Ganguly emulates Mark Waugh

By Mohandas Menon

** This match was India's 54th in the WC since its first in 1975. Only Australia (57) has appeared in more WC matches.

** Tendulkar (83), while on 45, became the highest run scorer against Kenya in LOIs.

Playing in his 10th match against the Kenyans he went past Zimbabwean Andy Flower's aggregate 608 runs (in 15 matches). Tendulkar now has 647 runs at an average of 107.83.

** Tendulkar has 669 runs in this WC in 10 matches. He becomes only the third batsman in LOI history to aggregate over 600 runs in any single tournament.

Australian Greg Chappell had made 686 (in 14 matches) in the 1980-81 B&H World Series Cup, while West Indian Viv Richards had 651 (in 13) in the 1984-85 B&H World Series Cup.

** Tendulkar now has 671 runs in 13 matches in 2003 — the most by any batsman this calendar year. He went past the tally of 654 runs (in 14 matches) held by Sri Lankan Sanath Jayasuriya.

** The partnership of 103 between Tendulkar & Ganguly was India's best for the 2nd wicket in the WC against Kenya bettering the previous best of 42 put on between S. Ramesh and Rahul Dravid at Bristol in the 1999 WC.

This was only the second three-figure partnership against Kenya in the WC after the unbeaten 159 between Englishmen Graeme Hick and Nasser Hussain at Canterbury in the 1999 WC.

** The Tendulkar-Ganguly partnership was India's best for any wicket at this venue. Dravid & Azharuddin had put on 81 against the home side on 13-2-1997 for the third wicket.

** Ganguly's 22nd hundred (111 not out) of his career in his 228th match, was his third in this WC.

He joins Australian Mark Waugh, who also had three hundreds in the 1996 edition of the WC.

** In all, Ganguly has four hundreds in the WC which equals the record of Australian Mark Waugh and teammate Tendulkar.

** This was Ganguly's 11th hundred in 99 matches as captain, the most by any captain in LOI history. He went ahead of Sri Lankan Sanath Jayasuriya, who has 10 hundreds in 115 matches as captain.

** By scoring his third century as captain in the WC, Ganguly betters the WC record of most hundreds by a captain held by New Zealand's Glenn Turner.

** This was Ganguly's fifth hundred on South African soil, the most by any visiting batsman. Tendulkar has four.

Ganguly also equals the tally of five centuries held by Gary Kirsten — the most by any batsman in South Africa.

** Ganguly now has 14 sixes in this tournament — the most by any batsman.

It was also the maximum by any batsman in a single WC tournament. Kiwi left-hander Mark Greatbatch had hit 13 in the 1992 edition. Ganguly had hit 12 in the 1999 WC.

** Ganguly's tally of sixes in World Cups is now 26.

** Yuvraj Singh now has an aggregate of 1505 runs in 69 matches. He becomes only the second batsman in LOIs to reach this aggregate without appearing in a Test match.

Kenyan Steve Tikolo who has 1654 runs (in 60 matches) is the only other non-Test batsman with more LOI runs than Yuvraj.

** The partnership of 57 between Steve Tikolo and Collins Obuya was

Kenya's best against India for the 8th wicket bettering the previous best of 23 between Collins Obuya and Tony Suji at Bloemfontein on 12-10-2001.

The Tikolo-Obuya partnership was also the best for Kenya for the 8th wicket in the WC eclipsing the previous best of 31 between Mohammad Sheikh and Aasif Karim against South Aftrica at Amsterdam on 26-5-1999.

** This was India's eighth win in a row since 19-2-2003, which equals

India's best winning sequence in LOIs from 20-2-1985 to 25-8-1985.

** This was also India's eighth successive victory in the WC. Only Australia (11 wins from 20-6-1999 to 18-3-2003) and West Indies (9 wins from 7-6-1975 to 23-6-1979) have better records.

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