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1st Match, West Indies v Zimbabwe, Coca Cola Cup, Statistical Highlights

12/05/2025 00:00

It was the 1727th ODI in cricket history.
It was West Indies’ 425th and Zimbabwe’s 185th match.
It was the 16th match between these two sides. The record now reads:West Indies 12,Zimbabwe 4.
West Indies was playing for the first time on Zimbabwean soil.
Umpires Kevin Barbour and Russell Tiffin were officiating in theirseventh and 31st match respectively.
Zimbabwe was without the services of Andy Flower for the first timesince 1991-92 World Cup game against Sri Lanka at New Plymouth. Andyhad played in all the 172 one-day internationals and 52 Tests — everymatch that Zimbabwe played since he made his international debut. Hissequence of 172 consecutive matches is second only to India’s SachinTendulkar who played 185 matches without a break in between 1989 and1998. Former South African captain Hansie Cronje is third on this listplaying in 162 successive matches before his career ended in disgracein March last year. The accompanying table lists the players with mostconsecutive matches in a career :

Tatenda Taibu, while becoming 64th player to represent Zimbabwein shorter form of the game,also became the second youngestZimbabwean to make ODI Debut at the age of 18 years and 40 days.Only Mluleki Nkala has played ODI cricket at a younger age thanTaibu for Zimbabwe. Nkala was 17 years 179 days old on debut (vIndia at Bulawayo QC on September 27,1998).
Taibu also became the youngest wicketkeeper in all ODIs. Theprevious record was on the name of Pakistani Javed Qadeer whowas 18 years and 229 days old on his debut against Sri Lanka atSharjah on April 11,1995.
Grant Flower was captaining Zimbabwe for the first time in hiscareer. He became seventh player to captain Zimbabwe in One-DayInternationals.
Grant Flower’s chance to captain Zimbabwe time came in his 155thmatch. Only two players- Australia’s Steve Waugh and West IndianDesmond Haynes – have appeared in more matches than Grantwithout captaining their respective sides. The accompanyingtable lists the players who captained their sides very late intheir careers :

The partnership of 113 runs between Darren Ganga and Chris Gayle wasthe first for West Indies for the opening wicket in 35 matches. Thelast century partnership for the first wicket for West Indies had comeagainst New Zealand at Auckland on January 2,2000 when SherwinCampbell and Ridley Jacobs added 111 runs.
Alistair Campbell now has an aggregate of 362 runs from 13 matchesagainst West Indiesmaximum for Zimbabwe. Campbell surpassed AndyFlower’s tally of 329 runs from 13 matches.
Cameron Cuffy was winning his second Man of the Match award in 27thmatch. Interestingly his only other award had come in the previousgame for West Indies (v South Africa at Arnos Vale on May 16,2001).