29.06.2009
- West Indies, with their eight-wicket series-levelling win, have registered their biggest victory against India at Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica. Their only previous win against India at this venue was by just one run on May 20, 2006.
- India and West Indies have won two games each against each other at this venue.
- West Indies have won five out of last six played against India in the West Indies.
- Overall, West Indies have won 16 and lost six out of 22 played against India in the West Indies.
- India (188) have recorded their lowest completed innings total against West Indies at Sabina Park, Kingston, surpassing the 197 on May 20, 2006.
- Gautam Gambhir's second duck against West Indies is his fifth in ODIs - his first in eleven innings in 2009.
- Gambhir has averaged 16.80 against West Indies - 84 in five innings, his sequence of scores being 69, 2, 0, 13 & 0.
- Rohit Sharma's first duck against West Indies is his third in ODIs. He has recorded two ducks against Sri Lanka - one each at Brisbane and Dambulla.
- After posting 58 against Pakistan at Karachi on July 2, 2008, Rohit is without a fifty in his last seventeen innings.
- Rohit (2/27) has produced his best bowling figures in ODIs.
- Ravi Rampaul (4/37) has produced his best bowling performance in ODIs, bettering the 4 for 41 against England at Birmingham on July 4, 2007.
- Yuvraj Singh, during his innings of 35 off 33 balls, has completed his 7,000 runs in ODIs - 7016 runs at an average of 37.92 in 234 games.
- Yuvraj is the fifth Indian to accomplish the feat. The top five Indian batsmen in terms of run-aggregate are:
Sachin Tendulkar (16684), Sourav Ganguly (11363), Rahul Dravid (10585), Mohammad Azharuddin (9378) and Yuvraj Singh (7016).
- Yuvraj's feat of taking 215 innings to reach 7000 runs is the fourth fastest by an Indian. Ganguly holds a world record, having taken 174 innings, followed by Tendulkar (189) and Dravid (204).
- Yuvraj is the leading run-getter in the series so far - 166 (ave.83.00), including one hundred and eight sixes.
- Yusuf Pathan has registered his fifth duck in 16 ODI innings - one each against Pakistan, England, West Indies, Sri Lanka and New Zealand.
- For the third time in an Indian innings against West Indies, three ducks have been recorded - the first two instances being at Arnos Vale on April 30, 1997 and Kuala Lumpur on September 20, 2006.
- With a six over long-on off Benn, Mahendra Singh Dhoni has completed his tally of 100 sixes (101) in ODIs. He is the fifth Indian batsman to have accomplished the feat, joining Sourav Ganguly (190), Sachin Tendulkar (176), Yuvraj Singh (129) and Virender Sehwag (107).
- Dhoni, during the course of his 95 off 130 balls, has completed his 2,000 runs as captain - 2044 runs at an average of 58.40 in 48 innings.
- Dhoni's 95 is his second highest innings as captain - his highest being 109 not out off 96 balls against Hong Kong at at Karachi on June 25,2008.
- Dhoni's 17th fifty as captain is his 31st in ODIs - his third against West Indies.
- Dhoni's 95 is his highest score against West Indies, bettering the 62 not out at Nagpur on January 21, 2007.
- Dhoni, with his aforesaid performance, has become the first captain/wicketkeeper to have completed the double of 2,000 runs + 50 dismissals (51 catches + 21 stumpings).
- Denesh Ramdin, for the fourth time in his career, has effected five dismissals in an innings - once each against India, Netherlands, Pakistan and Zimbabwe.
- Ramdin is the first West Indian and the third overall to have effected five dismissals or more in an innings against India. Adam Gilchrist has achieved the feat three times while Brendon McCullum has recorded it twice. Gilchrist is the only wicketkeeper to have effected six dismissals in an innings against India and that too twice.
- Dhoni and Rudra Pratap Singh were associated in a 101-run stand for the ninth wicket - India's highest against West Indies for this wicket-position in ODIs, surpassing the 65 (unbroken) between Sameer Dighe and Debashish Mohanty at Harare on July 7, 2001.
- The aforesaid stand is the highest by any pair against the West Indies for the ninth wicket, eclipsing the 77 by Shane Warne and Michael Bevan for Australia at Port of Spain on April 18, 1999.
- Of the five 100-plus century stands for the ninth wicket, three have been recorded by India.
- Runako Morton (85 not out off 102 balls) has posted his tenth fifty in ODIs - his highest against India, surpassing the 84 at Colombo, RPS on August 7, 2005.
- Chris Gayle's fifth fifty against India is his 39th in ODIs.
- Gayle is averaging over 50 as captain - 1483 (ave.51.13) in 36 ODIs, including four centuries and nine fifties.
- Gayle and Morton were associated in a stand of 101 for the first wicket - West Indies' highest against India for any wicket at Kingston.
- Ravi Rampaul has received his first MOM award in ODIs.
- Rudra Pratap Singh's 23 off 75 balls is his highest score in ODIs.
