Match Number 09 : India vs Australia at Centurion on 28.09.09 : Match abandoned due to rain

This game was abandoned due to rain providing the 101^st occasion of no result game in the tournament. With this no result game, Australia, India and West Indies have 14 no result games. New Zealand has record no result games {15} in the history of One day games.

As far as Australia and India encounters are concerned, this game provides the eighth no result game

This game was abandoned due to rain providing the third occasion of no result game in the tournament. The other two occasions are – Sri Lanka vs India at Col-RPS on 29.09.02 and Sri Lanka vs India at Col-RPS on 30.09.02.

It is interesting to note that all the three no result games in the tournament involve India as one of the opposing teams.

Austalian innings contained three fifties {TD Paine -56, RT Ponting – 65 and MEK Hussey – 67} providing the ninth occasion of three batsmen scoring fifties in a team’s innings in the tournament. As far as England is concerned this is the third such occasion – the other two instances were – against Australia at Birmingham on 21.09.04 and against West Indies at Ahmedabad on 28.10.06.

No	Team	Fif	Opp	Venue	Date
1	RSA	3	Eng	Dhaka	25.10.98
2	RSA	3	Ken	Col-RPS	20.09.02
3	NZl	3	USA	The Oval	10.09.04
4	Eng	3	Aus	Birmingham	21.09.04
5	Eng	3	Win	Ahmedabad	28.10.06
6	Aus	3	Ind	Mohali	29.10.06
7	Srl	3	RSA	Centurion	22.09.09
8	Eng	3	RSA	Centurion	27.09.09
9	Aus	3	Ind	Centurion	28.09.09

TD Paine’s 56 in this game provide the 18th occasion of a wicket keeper batsman registering a fifty in the tournament. His knock provides the third occasion of Australian wicket keeper batsman scoring a fifty in the tournament. The other two fifties are by AC Gilchrist {54 vs Bangladesh at Col-SSC on 19.09.02 and 92 vs West Indies at Mumbai {BS} on 18.10.06.

RT Ponting becomes first captain to be dismissed run out with a fifty in the tournament. He was run out in this game after scoring 65. He is the seventh captain to be dismissed run out.

RT Ponting dismissal run out after scoring 65 provides the 18^th occasion of a batsman run out after scoring a fifty in the tournament. He is the second Australian batsman after AC Gilchrist {92 vs West Indies at Mumbai-BS on 18.10.06} to be dismissed run out with a fifty in the tournament.

RT Ponting’s 65 in this game was his 97^th fifty in ODI games. His aggregate of 97 fifties puts him second in the list of batsmen who have scored 90 plus fifties in the history of one day games. Only SR Tendulkar {135} is ahead of RT Ponting in terms of one day fifties. RT Ponting while registering his 97^th fifty went past ST Jayasuriya {96 fifties} with whom he was on par prior to the start of this game. The following are the six batsmen have registered 90 plus fifties in one day games.

No	Batsmen	Team	C	F	C+F
1	SR Tendulkar	Ind	44	91	135
2	RT Ponting	Aus/ICC	27	70	97
3	ST Jayasuriya	Srl	28	68	96
4	R Dravid	Asia/Ind	12	82	94
5	SC Ganguly	Asia/Ind	22	72	94
6	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pak	10	83	93

MEK Hussey’s 67 in this game represent his 25^th one day fifty. It was his 23^rd one day half century.