ICC CT 2009 : India registers an easy win against West Indies
Match Number 12 : India vs West Indies at Johannesburg on 30.09.09 : India won by 07 wickets
India won this match by seven wickets after inserting the opposition in this game providing the 21st occasion of a team winning a game after inserting the opposition in the tournament.
KRD Karthik kept wickets in place of MS Dhoni after 16.1 overs in this game. After relinquishing the gloves, MS Dhoni chanced his arm with the ball in the game and bowled two overs to capture a wicket conceding 14 runs. His victim was TM Dowlin whom he bowled for 14.
MS Dhoni became the third wicket keeper in the world who relinquished the gloves in the middle of the game and chanced his arm with the ball to capture at least a wicket in the history of one day games. The other two wicket keepers are – T Taibu of Zimbabwe – 10.0-1-42-2 vs Sri Lanka at Harare on 29.04.04 {Meregwede kept wickets in place of T Taibu after the 30th over}, DC Thomas of West Indies {1.1-0-11-2 vs Bangladesh at Roseau on 28.07.09 {ADS Fletcher kept wickets in place of DC Thomas after 42.5 overs}
R Dravid was run out in this game for 4 in this game which represents the 39th occasion of his being run out in one day games. Only MS Atapattu of Sri Lanak {41} and Inzamam-ul-Haq {40} have been dismissed run out on more occasions than R Dravid.
ADS Fletchers’s zero in this game provides the third occasion of a wicket keeper opening batsman scoring zero in the tournament. The other two are – KD Otieno of Kenya vs India at Southampton on 11.09.04 and MR Johnson of USA vs Australia at Southampton on 13.09.04.
ADS Fletchers’s zero in this game provides the 13th of a wicket keeper batsman scoring zero in the tournament.
V Kohli registered his one day fifty in this game when he made 79 not out in this game. His other fifty had come against Sri Lanka at Col-RPS on 27.08.08 when he had scored 54. His 79 not out in this game represents his highest one day score.
West Indies were all out of 129 in this game providing the 54th occasion of a team being all out in the tournament. West Indies have been all out on seven occasions including the one in this game – the most number of occasions in the tournament. New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe are the other three teams which have been all out on six occasions in the tournament.
India won its 38th game against West Indies out of 95 encounters played between them. West Indies has won 54 games, while one game was tied and two games ended as No result games.