Plays of the Day: India v New Zealand, 6th ODI at Dambulla
India beat http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 in the last league game of the Micromax Cup tri-series at Dambulla to book their place in the final. They will now play Sri Lanka in the final of the tournament.
Sehwag scores a huge percentage:
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 scored 223 in their allocated overs and 22 of them were extras. So, out of the remaining 201 runs, 110 came off Sehwag’s bat, which comes to a whopping 55% of the total runs. Even if one includes the extras, the percentage is about 49.9%.
However, for those who are statistically-inclined, this is not the highest ever percentage of runs one batsman has scored in an innings. In fact, this does not even feature in the list of top 50 percentages. The record for the highest percentage of a team total belongs to Sir Vivian Richards, who had smashed an unbeaten 189 for the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760, in a team total of 272 – a near 70% of the total.
India’s http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045. The saddest part about this innings was that the BBC was on strike that day, and there is no video clipping of this innings.
One would have expected that Sachin Tendulkar’s double-century – the only one in ODIs – would also feature in the list, but given that the Indians had scored more than 400 in that game, the percentage of the runs scored goes down below 50.
In Test matches, the same record is held by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Charles-Bannerman-c49735, which is probably the longest standing record of any kind in international record. He was the first batsman to score a century in Test match cricket when he had slammed a 165 in 1877 in the first ever Test match played. This formed 67.34% of the total runs in the innings, and is a record that is still not broken by anybody else.
Unsurprisingly, Sehwag makes his entry into this list as well, and at the number 11 position. He had scored a double century against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758, but the side was bowled out 329 at Galle in 2008.
A man of words – and shots:
It would be fair to say that Kyle Mills had a good match despite his team’s debacle in the game. First, he bowled well enough to capture two wickets off his 8.3 overs. This was followed by a smacking innings 52 that came off only 35 balls towards the end of the Kiwi innings, that saw him entertain the sparse crowd with three towering sixes and seven boundaries.
However, one gets the sense that the best piece of cricket from Mills came when he was honest enough to accept that he had made a mistake by not informing the umpires about the Batting Powerplay.
Mills had decided to take the Batting Powerplay and he informed captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 accordingly. However, in the hurry to get on with the game, he forgot to do so to the umpires, who did not inform the scorers.
It was only when Dhoni later asked the umpires how many overs of the Powerplay are still remaining that the incident came to light. The umpires pleaded ignorance about the Powerplay, but http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mills-c76321 accepted that he had indeed called for the Batting Powerplay and the situation was quickly rectified.
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