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Pakistan’s captain Azhar Ali failed to score against England at Lord’s on 27.08.16 to provide the sixth occasion of a captain scoring a duck in a one day game at Lord’s. All such occasions are listed below

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	AJ Stewart	0	2	Eng	Pak	Lord’s	22 Aug 1992
2	Waqar Younis	0	1	Pak	Aus	Lord’s	23 Jun 2001
3	MP Vaughan	0	2	Eng	Aus	Lord’s	02 Jul 2005
4	AJ Strauss	0	1	Eng	Pak	Lord’s	02 Sep 2006
5	R Dravid	0	1	Ind	Eng	Lord’s	08 Sep 2007
6	Azhar Ali	0	1	Pak	Eng	Lord’s	27 Aug 2016

Azhar Ali became the third visiting captain after Waqar Younis and R Dravid to score a duck at Lord’s against England in a one day game. Azhar Ali is the second Pakistan captain to suffer the ignominy of scoring a duck at Lord’s in a one day game. He also became the second batting captain to score a duck at Lord’s in a one-day game after R Dravid. R Dravid had failed to score at Lord’s on 08.09.07. Waqar Younis is considered a bowling captain. Azhar Ali became the second captain after R Dravid to open the account against England at Lord’s. Waqar Younis had failed to score against Australia on 23.06.01

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	Waqar Younis	0	1	Pak	Aus	Lord’s	23 Jun 2001
2	R Dravid	0	1	Ind	Eng	Lord’s	08 Sep 2007
3	Azhar Ali	0	1	Pak	Eng	Lord’s	27 Aug 2016

 

Sarfraz Ahmed of Pakistan scored 105 against England at Lord’s on 27.08.16. This knock was in vain as Pakistan lost the game to England by four wickets. This provides the 33^rd occasion of a wicket keeper batsman’s century in vain in the annals of one day games. All such occasions are listed below.

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	KJ Wadsworth	104	2	NZl	Aus	Christchurch	31 Mar 1974
2	DL Houghton	142	2	Zim	NZl	Hyd-RGS	10 Oct 1987
3	A Flower	115*	1	Zim	Srl	N Plymouth	23 Feb 1992
4	AC Parore	108	2	NZl	RSA	Centurion	11 Dec 1994
5	R Dravid	103*	1	Ind	Win	Singapore	08 Sep 1999
6	AJ Stewart	100*	2	Eng	Win	Nottingham	20 Jul 2000
7	A Flower	120*	1	Zim	Srl	Sharjah	21 Oct 2000
8	A Flower	142*	1	Zim	Eng	Harare	07 Oct 2001
9	A Flower	145	2	Zim	Ind	Col-RPS	14 Sep 2002
10	KC Sangakkara	101	2	Srl	Aus	Col-RPS	27 Feb 2004
11	KC Sangakkara	138*	1	Srl	Ind	Jaipur	31 Oct 2005
12	A Bagai	137*	2	Can	Sco	Nairobi (R)	31 Jan 2007
13	T Taibu	107*	2	Zim	RSA	Harare	26 Aug 2007
14	KC Sangakkara	128	1	Srl	Ind	Adelaide	19 Feb 2008
15	BRM Taylor	118*	1	Zim	Ban	Chittagong	05 Nov 2009
16	T Taibu	103*	2	Zim	RSA	Benoni	08 Nov 2009
17	MS Dhoni	107	1	Ind	Srl	Nagpur	18 Dec 2009
18	Mushfiqur Rahim	101	2	Ban	Zim	Harare	16 Aug 2011
19	AB de Villiers	125*	1	RSA	Srl	Johannesburg	22 Jan 2012
20	KC Sangakkara	105	1	Srl	Ind	Hobart	28 Feb 2012
21	KC Sangakkara	133	2	Srl	Ind	Hambantota	21 Jul 2012
22	MS Dhoni	113*	1	Ind	Pak	Chennai	30 Dec 2012
23	MS Dhoni	139*	1	Ind	Aus	Mohali	19 Oct 2013
24	W Barresi	137*	1	Net	Ken	Lincoln	23 Jan 2014
25	Anamul Haque	100	1	Ban	Pak	Dhaka	04 Mar 2014
26	D Ramdin	128	2	Win	Eng	North Sound	05 Mar 2014
27	JC Buttler	121	2	Eng	Srl	Lord’s	31 May 2014
28	Q de Kock	107	1	RSA	Aus	Sydney	23 Nov 2014
29	BRM Taylor	121	2	Zim	Ire	Hobart	07 Mar 2015
30	KC Sangakkara	104	2	Srl	Aus	Sydney	08 Mar 2015
31	BRM Taylor	138	1	Zim	Ind	Auckland	14 Mar 2015
32	Q de Kock	138*	2	RSA	Eng	Bloemfontein	03 Feb 2016
33	Sarfraz Ahmed	105	1	Pak	Eng	Lord’s	27 Aug 2016

 

Sarfraz Ahmed of Pakistan scored 105 against England at Lord’s on 27.08.16 to become the third wicket keeper batsman to score a century at Lord’s – Mecca of Cricket. Others are – KC Sangakkara of Sri Lanka and JC Buttler of England. The performance of these three wicket keepers are listed below

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	KC Sangakkara	112	1	Srl	Eng	Lord’s	31 May 2014
2	JC Buttler	121	2	Eng	Srl	Lord’s	31 May 2014
3	Sarfraz Ahmed	105	1	Pak	Eng	Lord’s	27 Aug 2016

Sarfraz Ahmed became the second batsman to witness his century in a losing cause at Lord’s after JC Buttler. JC Buttler had scored 121 runs against England on 31.05.14.

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	JC Buttler	121	2	Eng	Srl	Lord’s	31 May 2014
2	Sarfraz Ahmed	105	1	Pak	Eng	Lord’s	27 Aug 2016

Sarfraz Ahmed’s 55 in the one-day game between Pakistan and England at Southampton on 24.08.16 provide the sixth occasion of a Pakistan wicket keeper batsman scoring a fifty against England in one day games. All such occasions are listed below

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	Kamran Akmal	102	2	v England	Lahore	12 Dec 2005
2	Kamran Akmal	109	1	v England	Karachi	15 Dec 2005
3	Kamran Akmal	53	2	v England	Ch-le-St	10 Sep 2010
4	Kamran Akmal	74	1	v England	Leeds	12 Sep 2010
5	Sarfraz Ahmed	64	2	v England	Abu Dhabi	13 Nov 2015
6	Sarfraz Ahmed	55	1	v England	Southampton	24 Aug 2016

It also represents the fourth occasion of a Pakistan’s wicket keeper batsman’s fifty in a losing cause against England inn one day games. All such occasions are listed below.

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	Kamran Akmal	53	2	v England	Ch-le-St	10 Sep 2010
2	Kamran Akmal	74	1	v England	Leeds	12 Sep 2010
3	Sarfraz Ahmed	64	2	v England	Abu Dhabi	13 Nov 2015
4	Sarfraz Ahmed	55	1	v England	Southampton	24 Aug 2016

Azhar Ali’s 82 in the one-day game between Pakistan and England at Southhampton on 24.08.16 provide the seventh occasion of a Pakistan captain scoring a fifty against England in one day games. All such occasions are listed below

It also provides the highest individual innings by a Pakistan captain against England in one day games. The previous best was Inzamam-ul-Haq’s 81 not out at Rawalpindi on 19.12.05.  Azhar Ali’s 82 also represent the highest individual score by a Pakistan captain against England in England. The previous best was Asif Iqbal’s 51 at Leeds on 16.06.1979

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	Asif Iqbal	51	2	v England	Leeds	16 Jun 1979
2	Zaheer Abbas	59*	2	v England	Lahore	09 Mar 1984
3	Javed Miandad	71	1	v England	Sharjah	26 Mar 1985
4	Imran Khan	72	1	v England	Melbourne	25 Mar 1992
5	Javed Miandad	50*	1	v England	Lord’s	22 Aug 1992
6	Inzamam-ul-Haq	81*	1	v England	Rawalpindi	19 Dec 2005
7	Azhar Ali	82	1	v England	Southampton	24 Aug 2016

Azhar Ali’s 82 also represent the second occasion of Pakistan Captain’s fifty in a losing cause against Pakistan. The other occasion was Asif Iqbal’s 51 at Leeds on 16.06.1979

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	Asif Iqbal	51	2	v England	Leeds	16 Jun 1979
2	Azhar Ali	82	1	v England	Southampton	24 Aug 2016

MF Apono of Sri Lanka captured 4 for 18 against Australia at Col-RPS on 24.08.16 to provide the tenth occasion of a Sri Lankan bowler capturing exact four wickets in an one day game against Australia. All such occasions are listed below

No	Player	O	M	R	W	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	RJ Ratnayake	10.0	3	37	4	1	v Australia	Melbourne	19 Jan 1985
2	GF Labrooy	10.0	1	39	4	1	v Australia	Melbourne	14 Jan 1988
3	UDU Chandana	6.0	0	35	4	2	v Australia	Col-RPS	07 Sep 1996
4	ST Jayasuriya	10.0	1	39	4	2	v Australia	Sydney	09 Jan 2003
5	M Muralitharan	10.0	1	27	4	2	v Australia	Brisbane	15 Jan 2003
6	HMCM Bandara	10.0	0	58	4	2	v Australia	Sydney	22 Jan 2006
7	WPUJC Vaas	10.0	0	56	4	1	v Australia	Sydney	12 Feb 2006
8	SL Malinga	9.4	1	47	4	1	v Australia	Perth	15 Feb 2008
9	SL Malinga	10.0	0	49	4	2	v Australia	Melbourne	02 Mar 2012
10	MA Aponso	9.2	0	18	4	2	v Australia	Col-RPS	24 Aug 2016

MA Aponso’s figures of 9.2-0-18-4 represent the best bowling figures by a Sri Lankan bowler against Australia amongst the bowlers who have captured exact four wickets against Sri Lanka. The Previous best figures were by M Muralitharan who had figures of 10.0-1-27-4 at Brisbane on 15.01.03

No	Player	O	M	R	W	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
10	MA Aponso	9.2	0	18	4	2	v Australia	Col-RPS	24 Aug 2016
5	M Muralitharan	10.0	1	27	4	2	v Australia	Brisbane	15 Jan 2003

MA Aponso’s figures of 9.2-0-18-4 represent the best bowling figures by a Sri Lankan bowler against Australia amongst the bowlers who have captured exact four wickets against Sri Lanka on Sri Lankan soil. The Previous best figures were by U Chandana who had figures of 6.0-0-35-4 at Col-RPS on 07.09.16

Thus MA Aponso emulated U Chandana to become the second Sri Lankan bowler to capture exact four wickets against Australia at home after nearly 20 years. It is interesting to note that both UDU Chandana and MA Aponso have chosen Col-RPS for their four wicket hauls

No	Player	O	M	R	W	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	MA Aponso	9.2	0	18	4	2	v Australia	Col-RPS	24 Aug 2016
2	UDU Chandana	6.0	0	35	4	2	v Australia	Col-RPS	07 Sep 1996

 

Australian JP Faulkner’s hat trick against Sri Lanka at Col-RPS on 24.08.16 was in a losing cause to provide the eighth occasion of a bowler’s hat trick going in vain in the history of one day games. All such occasions are listed below

No	Player	Match	Venue	Date	Res
1	Shahadat Hossain	Ban v Zim	Harare	02.08.06	L
2	SE Bond	NZl v Aus	Hobart	14.01.07	L
3	SL Malinga	Srl v RSA	Guyana	28.03.07	L
4	DT Christian	Aus v Srl	Melbourne	02.03.12	L
5	CJ McKay	Aus v Eng	Cardiff	14.09.13	L
6	P Utseya	Zim v RSA	Harare	29.08.14	L
7	ST Finn	Eng v Aus	Melbourne	14.02.15	L
8	JP Faulkner	Aus v Srl	Col-RPS	24.08.16	L

JP Faulkner became the third Australian bowler to witness his hat trick going in vain after DT Christian and CJ Mckay. The performance of these three bowlers are listed below

No	Player	Match	Venue	Date	Res
1	CJ McKay	Aus v Eng	Cardiff	14.09.13	L
2	DT Christian	Aus v Srl	Melbourne	02.03.12	L
3	JP Faulkner	Aus v Srl	Col-RPS	24.08.16	L

JP Faulkner became the second Australian bowler to witness his hat trick going in vain against Sri Lanka after DT Christian. DT Christian’s effort had goin in vain at Melbourne on 02.02.13. The performance of these two bowlers are listed below

No	Player	Match	Venue	Date	Res
1	DT Christian	Aus v Srl	Melbourne	02.03.12	L
2	JP Faulkner	Aus v Srl	Col-RPS	24.08.16	L

 

JP Faulkner of Australia performed a hat trick against Sri Lanka at Col-RPS on 24.08.16 to provide the 40^th occasion of a bowler performing the hat trick in the history of one day internationals. All such occasions are listed below

No	Player	Match	Venue	Date
1	Jalal-ud-Din	Pak v Aus	Hyderabad (P)	20.09.82
2	BA Reid	Aus v NZl	Sydney	29.01.86
3	C Sharma	Ind v NZl	Nagpur	31.10.87
4	Wasim Akram	Pak v Win	Sharjah	14.10.89
5	Wasim Akram	Pak v Aus	Sharjah	04.05.90
6	Kapil Dev	Ind v Srl	Calcutta	04.01.91
7	Aaqib Javed	Pak v Ind	Sharjah	25.10.91
8	DK Morrison	NZl v Ind	Napier	25.03.94
9	Waqar Younis	Pak v NZl	East London	19.12.94
10	Saqlain Mushtaq	Pak v Zim	Peshawar	03.11.96
11	EA Brandes	Zim v Eng	Harare	03.01.97
12	AM Stuart	Aus v Pak	Melbourne	16.01.97
13	Saqlain Mushtaq	Pak v Zim	The Oval	11.06.99
14	WPUJC Vaas	Srl v Zim	Col-SSC	08.12.01
15	Mohammad Sami	Pak v Win	Sharjah	15.02.02
16	WPUJC Vaas	Srl v Ban	Pietermaritzburg	14.02.03
17	B Lee	Aus v Ken	Durban	15.03.03
18	JM Anderson	Eng v Pak	The Oval	20.06.03
19	SJ Harmison	Eng v Ind	Nottingham	01.09.04
20	CK Langeveldt	RSA v Win	Barbados	11.05.05
21	Shahadat Hossain	Ban v Zim	Harare	02.08.06
22	JE Taylor	Win v Aus	Mumbai (BS)	18.10.06
23	SE Bond	NZl v Aus	Hobart	14.01.07
24	*SL Malinga	Srl v RSA	Guyana	28.03.07
25	A Flintoff	Eng v Win	St Lucia	03.04.09
26	MF Maharoof	Srl v Ind	Dambulla	22.06.10
27	Abdur Razzak	Ban v Zim	Dhaka	03.12.10
28	KAJ Roach	Win v Net	Delhi	28.02.11
29	SL Malinga	Srl v Ken	Col-RPS	01.03.11
30	SL Malinga	Srl v Aus	Col-RPS	22.08.11
31	DT Christian	Aus v Srl	Melbourne	02.03.12
32	NLTC Perera	Srl v Pak	Col-RPS)	16.06.12
33	CJ McKay	Aus v Eng	Cardiff	14.09.13
34	Rubel Hossain	Ban v NZl	Dhaka	29.10.13
35	Prosper Utseya	Zim v RSA	Harare	29.08.14
36	Taijul Islam	Ban v Zim	Dhaka	01.12.14
37	ST Finn	Eng v Aus	Melbourne	14.02.15
38	JP Duminy	RSA v Srl	Sydney	18.03.15
39	K Rabada	RSA v Ban	Mirpur	10.07.15
40	JP Faulkner	Aus v Srl	Col-RPS	24.08.16

JP Faulkner became the sixth Australian bowler to perform the hat trick in one day games. Others are – BA Ried, AM Stuart, B Lee, DT Christian and CJ Mckay. JP Faulkner became the second Australian bowler to perform the feat against Sri Lanka after DT Christian. DT Christian had performed the feat at Melbourne on 02.03.12

No	Player	Match	Venue	Date
1	BA Reid	Aus v NZl	Sydney	29.01.86
2	AM Stuart	Aus v Pak	Melbourne	16.01.97
3	B Lee	Aus v Ken	Durban	15.03.03
4	DT Christian	Aus v Srl	Melbourne	02.03.12
5	CJ McKay	Aus v Eng	Cardiff	14.09.13
6	JP Faulkner	Aus v Srl	Col-RPS	24.08.16

JP Faulker became the fourth bowler to perform the hat trick against Sri Lanka after Kapil Dev, DT Christian and JP Duminy. The performance of these four bowler are listed below

No	Player	Match	Venue	Date
1	Kapil Dev	Ind v Srl	Calcutta	04.01.91
2	DT Christian	Aus v Srl	Melbourne	02.03.12
3	JP Duminy	RSA v Srl	Sydney	18.03.15
4	JP Faulkner	Aus v Srl	Col-RPS	24.08.16

Shsrjah and Col-RPS are the two grounds on which most hat tricks have been performed. Both the grounds has witnessed four hat tricks which are listed below

No	Player	Match	Venue	Date
1	SL Malinga	Srl v Ken	Col-RPS	01.03.11
2	SL Malinga	Srl v Aus	Col-RPS	22.08.11
3	NLTC Perera	Srl v Pak	Col-RPS	16.06.12
4	JP Faulkner	Aus v Srl	Col-RPS	24.08.16
1	Wasim Akram	Pak v Win	Sharjah	14.10.89
2	Wasim Akram	Pak v Aus	Sharjah	04.05.90
3	Aaqib Javed	Pak v Ind	Sharjah	25.10.91
4	Mohammad Sami	Pak v Win	Sharjah	15.02.02

 

 

There are four occasions of a rival captains scoring a duck and a ninety in the history of one day games. All such occasions are listed below

No	Player	Score	Inns	Team	Oppn	Ground	Date
1	MD Crowe	91*	1	NZl	Aus	Wellington	24 Mar 1993
	AR Border	0	2	Aus	NZl	Wellington	24 Mar 1993
2	WJ Cronje	0	1	RSA	Srl	P Elizabeth	13 Apr 1998
	A Ranatunga	93*	2	Srl	RSA	P Elizabeth	13 Apr 1998
3	T Taibu	96*	1	Zim	Srl	Bulawayo	20 Apr 2004
	MS Atapattu	0	2	Srl	Zim	Bulawayo	20 Apr 2004
4	TM Dilshan	0	1	Srl	Eng	Nottingham	06 Jul 2011
	AN Cook	95*	2	Eng	Srl	Nottingham	06 Jul 2011

 

There are eight occasions of rival captains scoring a duck and a century in the annals of one day games. All such occasions are listed below

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	WJ Cronje	0	1	RSA	Aus	Leeds	13 Jun 1999
	SR Waugh	120*	2	Aus	RSA	Leeds	13 Jun 1999
2	ST Jayasuriya	112	1	Srl	Eng	Leeds	02 Jul 2002
	N Hussain	0	2	Eng	Srl	Leeds	02 Jul 2002
3	Inzamam-ul-Haq	0	1	Pak	NZl	Christchurch	10 Jan 2004
	SP Fleming	115*	2	NZl	Pak	Christchurch	10 Jan 2004
4	RT Ponting	134*	1	Aus	NZl	Hobart	20 Dec 2007
	DL Vettori	0	2	NZl	Aus	Hobart	20 Dec 2007
5	SO Tikolo	102	1	Ken	Zim	Nairobi (G)	19 Oct 2008
	P Utseya	0	2	Zim	Ken	Nairobi (G)	19 Oct 2008
6	Shakib Al Hasan	0	1	Ban	Ind	Dhaka	07 Jan 2010
	MS Dhoni	101*	2	Ind	Ban	Dhaka	07 Jan 2010
7	EJG Morgan	0	1	Eng	Aus	Hobart	23 Jan 2015
	SPD Smith	102*	2	Aus	Eng	Hobart	23 Jan 2015
8	HM Amla	133	1	RSA	Win	Centurion	28 Jan 2015
	JO Holder	0	2	Win	RSA	Centurion	28 Jan 2015