India- Australia will clash at Nagpur

2nd One Day International
28 October 2009
At VCA Stadium, Nagpur

*** This will be the 723rd ODI for India and 722nd 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 99th ODI between India and Australia. 32 have been won by India and 58 by Australia.
*** Both teams have played 38 ODI in India and the visitor has won 20 of them. Last time both played at Vadodara on Sunday which was won by Australia by runs. Before that match Australia twice beat India by ONE run and both time in the World Cup. First time at Chepauk in 1987-88 and then at Brisbane in 1991-92.
*** Ponting requires 82 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 1356 runs in 50 ODI on Indian soil.
*** Sachin Tendulkar scored 16903 ODI runs so far so he needs another 83 runs to become the first player to complete 17000 runs in the history of One Day International.

Day-Night match record

*** This will be the 44th Day night match between India and Australia. India won 14 and lost 25 of them while 4 ended in no result.
*** Both teams have played 12 day night games on Indian soil and the visitors has won 6 of them.
*** This will be the 91st day night match on Indian soil. The home team has won 31 of the 57 they played.
*** There have been 939 day night matches so far in the history of ODI. Australia has played 322 of them with 204-win, 104-loss record.
*** India has played 241 such games with 112-win, 112-loss record.

Venue Record (in Nagpur both grounds)

Highest Total
India: 6/350 Vs Sri Lanka on 25-10-2005
Australia: 8/317 Vs India on 14/10/2007
Lowest Total: (completed innings)
India: 193 Vs West Indies on 8/12/1987
Highest score:
149* by S Chanderpaul WI Vs India on 21/01/2007
India: 130* by Sourav Ganguly Vs Sri Lanka on 22/03/1999
Australia: 102* A Symonds Vs India on 14/10/2007
Best Bowling
8 for 29 by Patrik Patterson WI Vs India on 8/12/1987
India: 4 for 21 by Sourav Ganguly Vs Sri Lanka on 22/03/1999
Australia: 4 for 34 by Shane Warne Vs Zimbabwe on 1/3/1996