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05 Feb 2012, 07:02 pm
Summary
Wade shines on debut; Dhoni dismissed after six innings
Melbourne, Feb 5: Mathew Wade’s ODI debut, and a rain interruption, conspired against India, preventing them from beginning the tri-series with a win. India had last beaten the hosts in a reduced-overs ODI way back in 1986. Skipper MS Dhoni tried to put up a fight during an uphill run chase, only to be dismissed after remaining unbeaten in his last six ODI innings.Take a look at the numbers that matter from Australia’s win over a lacklustre India.
This was the 106th ODI between Australia and India. The record now reads: Australia – 62, India – 36, No result – eight.
This match was the 37th between these two teams in Australia. The record now reads: Australia – 27, India – nine, No result – one.
Sachin Tendulkar now holds the record for having the longest career span for any player in ODIs – 22 years 49 days. He goes ahead of Sri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya who had a career span of 21 years 184 days.
Matthew Wade and Daniel Christian were making their ODI debut for Australia. A total of 192 players have now represented Australia in ODIs.
Matthew Wade (67) became only the third wicketkeeper to score a fifty on ODI debut after Zimbabwe’s Andy Flower (115* v Sri Lanka at New Plymouth in 1992) and India’s Saba Karim (55 v South Africa at Bloemfontein in 1997).
MS Dhoni was dismissed for the first time after remaining unbeaten in his last six ODI innings. His streak of unbeaten innings: 78* at Lord’s on 11-09-2011, 50* at Cardiff on 16-09-2011, 87* at Hyderabad on 14-10-2011, 35* at Mohali on 20-10-2011, 15* at Mumbai WS on 23-10-2011 and 75* at Kolkata on 25-10-2011 – all against England.
Dhoni scored 369 runs between two dismissals in ODIs – a new Indian record. Ajay Jadeja had scored 354 between 01-04-1998 and 15-04-1998. In all ODIs, only four batsmen – Pakistan’s Mohammad Yousuf (405 in 2002), South Africa’s Lance Klusener (400 in 1999), Pakistan’s Javed Miandad (398 in 1982-83) and Sri Lanka’s Aravinda de Silva (389 in 1996) – have aggregated more runs between two dismissals.
India haven’t been able to register a single win in their last eight overseas ODIs. They have lost six, while one match was tied and one offered no result.
India had last beaten Australia in a reduced-overs ODI way back in 1986. Since then, they have lost seven such matches against Australia, while three matches ended with no result.
Matthew Wade became the sixth Australian player to win the Man-of-the-Match award on ODI debut after Merve Hughes, Brendon Julian, Stuart MacGill, Mark Cosgrove and Shaun Marsh.



