Razzaq's double and most nervous nineties

Pakistan's Muhammad Yousuf completed his 7000 runs in ODIs. He achieved this feat when he scored a single during the third match of the series against India at Lahore. He became only the 21st batsman overall to reach this milestone. It is interesting to note that Yousuf is yet to score 7000 ODI career runs while playing for Pakistan. After the third match of the ongoing series, his tally of runs now stands at 6953 runs from 206 games. The remaining 47 runs are those which he scored while playing for Asian XI and World XI in 2005. Table 1, 2, 3 & 4 gives statistical analysis of Yousuf's ODI batting career.

* Shoaib Malik smashed his third successive 90-plus score in as many as matches. He has now totaled 293 runs in eight days since the start of the ODI series on February 6, 2006. This is now the eleventh highest aggregate of runs by a Pakistani batsman in eight consecutive days. See Table 5.

* Abdul Razzaq became the fifth all-rounder to achieve the double of 200 wickets and 4000 runs in one-day internationals. Curiously enough, he is yet to complete this feat while playing for Pakistan because 49 of his 4030 runs came for Asian XI and World XI, just as in Yousuf's case above.

* Sachin was dismissed in the 90s for the tenth time in his career. This created a new world record of most nineties by a batsman in ODIs. He shared the previous record of nine 90s with Aravinda de Silva and Andy Flower. Had Sachin not missed any of these ten century making opportunities he would have been just one short of his 50th ton in ODIs today.Click to see the tables