India-Australia in ODI

25 October 2009
At Reliance stadium, Vadodara

*** This will be the 722nd ODI for India and 721st for Australia.
*** India needs one more victory to reach 350th win in ODI history. Only Australia (444) and Pakistan (381) has won more matches then India.
*** This will be the 98th ODI between India and Australia. 32 have been won by India and 57 by Australia.
*** Both teams have played 37 ODI in India and the visitor has won 19 of them. Last time both played at Vadodara in October 2007 which was won by Australia.
*** Australia captains Ricky Ponting will play his 50th ODI against India. He will be the second Australian after Steve Waugh (53) to do so.
*** Ponting requires 156 runs to become highest run scorer non Indian on Indian soil. Sri Lanka’s Arvinda de Silva had scored 1438 runs in 37 ODI while Ponting has score 1282 runs in 49 ODI on Indian soil.
*** Sachin Tendulkar scored 16903 ODI runs so far so he needs another 97 runs to become the first player to complete 17000 runs in the history of One Day International.
*** Brett Lee needs only one wicket to complete 50 wickets against India in ODI.
*** James Hopes requires 14 run to reach 1000 run milestone in his ODI career.

India and Australia in ODI.


Highest Total
India: 315 at Bangalore on 25 March 2001
Australia: 2 for 359 at Johannesburg on 23 March 2003
Lowest Total:
India: 63 at Sydney on 8 January 1981
Australia: 101 at Perth on 8 December 1991
Most Runs:
India: 2730 by SR Tendulkar in 61 matches.
Australia: 1778 by RT Ponting in 49 matches.
Most wickets:
India: 45 by Kapil Dev in 41 matches.
Australia: 49 by Brett Lee in 28 matches.
Highest score:
India: 143 by SR Tendulkar at Sharjah on 22 April 1998
Australia: 140 by RT Ponting at Johannesburg on 23 March 2003
Best Bowling
India: 6 for 27 by Murali Kartik Mumbai (Wankhede) on 17 October 2007
Australia: 6 for 39 by KH MacLeay at Trent Bridge on 13 June 1983.