KS Wiiliamson’s 97 for New Zealand went in a losing cause against Zimbabwe at Harare on 02.08.14 to provide the 27^th occasion of a captain’s ninety going in vain in the history of one day games. All such occasions are listed below.

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	GS Chappell	92	1	Aus	Eng	Melbourne	08 Dec 1979
2	Javed Miandad	90*	1	Pak	NZl	Hamilton	15 Jan 1985
3	M Azharuddin	93	2	Ind	Aus	Brisbane	01 Mar 1992
4	MD Crowe	91	1	NZl	Pak	Auckland	21 Mar 1992
5	A Ranatunga	98	1	Srl	Ind	Hyd-RGS	18 Feb 1994
6	SR Waugh	91	2	Aus	RSA	Bloemfontein	13 Apr 1997
7	SR Tendulkar	91	2	Ind	Eng	Sharjah	11 Dec 1997
8	SR Tendulkar	93	2	Ind	Pak	Hobart	21 Jan 2000
9	SO Tikolo	93	2	Ken	Win	Col-SSC	17 Sep 2002
10	ST Jayasuriya	99	2	Srl	Eng	Adelaide	17 Jan 2003
11	T Taibu	96*	1	Zim	Srl	Bulawayo	20 Apr 2004
12	PD Collingwood	91*	2	Eng	Ind	Leeds	02 Sep 2007
13	CH Gayle	92	2	Win	Aus	Basseterre	04 Jul 2008
14	M Jayawardene	94	2	Srl	Ind	Col-RPS	24 Aug 2008
15	MJ Clarke	98	1	Aus	NZl	Melbourne	06 Feb 2009
16	MS Dhoni	95	1	Ind	Win	Kingston	28 Jun 2009
17	KC Sangakkara	90	2	Srl	Ind	Rajkot	15 Dec 2009
18	A Bagai	91*	2	Can	Afg	Sharjah	16 Feb 2010
19	GC Smith	92	1	RSA	Pak	Dubai (DSC)	05 Nov 2010
20	AB de Villiers	96	1	RSA	Srl	Kimberley	20 Jan 2012
21	Misbah-ul-Haq	96*	1	Pak	Win	The Oval	07 Jun 2013
22	PL Mommsen	91*	1	Sco	Ire	Belfast	06 Sep 2013
23	GJ Bailey	92*	1	Aus	Ind	Jaipur	16 Oct 2013
24	E Chigumbura	90	1	Zim	RSA	Bulawayo	21 Aug 2014
25	AD Mathews	92*	1	Srl	Ind	Ahmedabad	06 Nov 2014
26	AB de Villiers	91	1	RSA	Aus	Melbourne	21 Nov 2014
27	KS Williamson	97	1	NZl	Zim	Harare	02 Aug 2015

It also provide the second occasion of a New Zealand captain’s ninety going in vain. The other occasion was MD Crowe’s 91 against Pakistan on 23.03.92 had gone in vain

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	MD Crowe	91	1	NZl	Pak	Auckland	21 Mar 1992
2	KS Williamson	97	1	NZl	Zim	Harare	02 Aug 2015