India vs Sri Lanka one day series : Ashish Nehra earns the dubious distinction
Ashish Nehra of India wrote himself into record books as a bowler who has conceded seventy plus runs on most occasions in the history of one day internationals. His figures of 10.0-0-74-1 against Sri Lanka at Nagpur on 18.12.09 provided the eighth occasion of his conceding seventy plus runs. He wrested the record from Waqar Younis of Pakistan who had conceded seventy plus runs on seven occasions. The performance of these two bowlers are listed below
| A Nehra of India | |||||||
| No | O | M | R | W | Opp | Ground | Date |
| 1 | 10.0 | 0 | 74 | 2 | Pak | Centurion | 01.03.03 |
| 2 | 10.0 | 0 | 80 | 0 | Aus | Bangalore | 12.11.03 |
| 3 | 10.0 | 0 | 72 | 4 | Pak | Vizag | 05.04.05 |
| 4 | 09.0 | 0 | 75 | 0 | Pak | Ahmedabad | 12.04.05 |
| 5 | 10.0 | 0 | 72 | 3 | Pak | Delhi | 17.04.05 |
| 6 | 10.0 | 0 | 79 | 1 | Aus | Hyd-RGS | 05.11.09 |
| 7 | 10.0 | 0 | 81 | 1 | Srl | Rajkot | 15.12.09 |
| 8 | 10.0 | 0 | 74 | 1 | Srl | Nagpur | 18.12.09 |
| Waqar Younis of Pakistan | |||||||
| No | O | M | R | W | Opp | Ground | Date |
| 1 | 11.0 | 0 | 73 | 4 | Eng | Nottingham | 20.08.92 |
| 2 | 10.0 | 0 | 73 | 2 | Srl | Centurion | 04.12.94 |
| 3 | 09.0 | 0 | 70 | 3 | NZl | Auckland | 23.12.95 |
| 4 | 10.0 | 0 | 73 | 1 | RSA | Durban | 03.04.98 |
| 5 | 10.0 | 0 | 86 | 2 | Srl | Benoni | 15.04.98 |
| 6 | 10.0 | 0 | 77 | 1 | Srl | Tangier | 14.08.02 |
| 7 | 08.4 | 0 | 71 | 2 | Ind | Centurion | 01.03.03 |