– India-Sri Lanka ODI 3rd match: WICKETKEEPERS rule

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– India-Sri Lanka ODI 3rd match: WICKETKEEPERS rule 2005-11-01T19:31:40-06:00 Desh Kapoor

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Between Sangakarra and Dhoni – the two wicket keepers of both the sides scored > 50% of the runs!!

601 runs were scored in the match, out of which 321 were made by the two wicketkeepers, a rare occurrence in international cricket.

Some of Dhoni’s records in this ODI:

– When he reached 50, Dhoni became first Indian wicketkeeper to score a fifty against Sri Lanka in India. Interestingly, he held the previous highest score by an Indian wicketkeeper against Sri Lanka in India with his 38 at Nagpur on October 25, 2005.

– When he reached 100, he became first wicketkeeper to score two separate hundreds on Indian soil. By reaching three-figure mark, he also provided the first instance of wicketkeepers from the opposing sides scoring a hundred in the same match.

-When he reached 146, he established the highest score by an Indian wicketkeeper against Sri Lanka, obliterating Rahul Dravid’s 145 at Taunton on May 26,1999.

-When he reached 149, he achieved his highest score in ODIs as well as the highest ever innings by an Indian wicketkeeper, beating his own 148 against Pakistan at Visakhapatnam on April 5, 2005.

-When he reached 150, he became the fastest wicketkeeper to reach this mark in terms of balls — needing only 123 balls to do so. The previous record was on the name of Adam Gilchrist, who raced to the milestone off 127 balls during his innings of 154 against Sri Lanka at Melbourne on February 7,1999.

-When he reached 154, he achieved the highest score by a batsman in ODIs batting second, expunging West Indian Brian Lara’s 153 against Pakistan at Sharjah on November 5, 1993.

-When he reached 155, he set a new record of highest score by a wicketkeeper against Sri Lanka, bettering Australia’s Adam Gilchrist’s 154 at Melbourne on February 7,1999.

-When he reached 170, he set a new world record of highest individual innings by a batsman at number 3, bettering West Indian Brian Lara’s 169 against Sri Lanka at Sharjah on October 16, 1995.

-When he reached 173, he established a new world record of highest score by a wicket-keeper in ODI history surpassing Australia’s Adam Gilchrist’s 172 against Zimbabwe at Hobart on January 16, 2004.

-The last six to end the match was Dhoni’s tenth in the match — a new Indian record of most sixes, beating the tally of seven sixes by Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly (twice). Only Sanath Jayasuriya and Shahid Afridi have hit more sixes than Dhoni in an innings (11 apiece).

-The tenth six also took Dhoni’s run-aggregate in the match in boundary shots to 120 (10 sixes and 15 fours) — a new world record. The previous record was jointly held by Pakistan’s Saeed Anwar against India at Chennai on May 21, 1997 and New Zealand’s Lou Vincent against Zimbabwe at Hobart on August 24, 2005.

– His innings of 183* is now the highest ever by any batsman against Sri Lanka in ODIs. He joined fellow-countryman Sourav Ganguly, who also registered an identical score (but was dismissed) at Taunton on May 26,1999.

-This was the third time he ended a match with a six. The earlier such occasions were — against the West Indies at Dambulla on July 31,2005 and against Zimbabwe at Harare on September 4, 2005.He now holds the Indian record of ending a match (on a winning note) with a six on most occasions.

He was previously at level with Kapil Dev and Sachin Tendulkar with two such instances each.

– Dhoni took his career strike-rate to 108.90 at the end of this match — highest by any batsman in ODIs (having batted in at least 20 innings). He went ahead of Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi, who has scored his runs at a rate of 108.20 runs per 100 balls.

-At the end of this match, Dhoni’s average is a staggering 49.73 — the highest by any Indian batsman (having scored at least 500 runs in a career). He moved ahead of Sachin Tendulkar, who averages 44.67.

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