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11 Dec 2011, 04:06 am
Summary
Tiwary's ton outweighs Pollard's as India win 4-1
Chennai, Dec 11: A ton for India, a ton for West Indies and a clean sweep of victories for captain Gautam Gambhir. The fifth and final ODI between the two sides ended with the Indians stamping their dominance over their opponents – representing visiting sides in general – in a season of home wins. India’s 4-1 win is their biggest in a bilateral series against the West Indies, giving them a good boost as they prepare to take on the Australians on an arduous tour. Manoj Tiwary shone with a century in just his sixth ODI, while Irfan Pathan returned to international cricket with a wicket off his first delivery. Take a look at the numbers that matter from the last match of the series.
Jason Mohammed became the 163rd player to represent West Indies in ODIs.
Irfan Pathan was making a comeback to Indian side after a gap of 34 months. He had last appeared for India against Sri Lanka at Colombo RPS on February 8, 2009.
Manoj Tiwary – playing only his sixth ODI – scored his maiden ODI hundred. He is amongst the quickest to score an ODI hundred for India. Only MS Dhoni scored a maiden hundred after playing fewer matches (five) than Tiwary. Two others – Raman Lamba and Gautam Gambhir – also scored their maiden ODI hundreds in their sixth match.
Tiwary had to retire hurt soon after reaching the three-figure mark. He is the second Indian, and fifth batsman overall, in ODIs to retire hurt after scoring a hundred. The complete list is: Sachin Tendulkar (163*) v New Zealand at Christchurch on March 08, 2009 ; Salman Butt (129*) v India at Mirpur on June 14, 2008 ; Shoaib Malik (125*) v India at Karachi on June 26, 2008 ; and Herschelle Gibbs (116*) v India at Colombo RPS on September 25, 2002.
Virat Kohli, on 15, surpassed England’s Jonathan Trott’s tally of 1,316 runs to become the leading run-scorer in ODIs this year. Kohli ended the year with 1,381 runs against his name from 34 games (at an average of 47.62) with four hundreds.
Irfan Pathan trapped Lendl Simmons lbw off the first ball of the West Indies innings. He thus became the seventh Indian bowler to take a wicket off the very first ball of the opponent’s innings. Kapil Dev, Venkatesh Prasad, Debasish Mohanty, Zaheer Khan, Ajit Agarkar and Praveen Kumar have previously performed this feat for India. Zaheer has done so on four occasions, followed by Mohanty and Prasad (twice each).
Kieron Pollard (119) made his maiden ODI hundred in his 51st match. His previous highest was 94 against Ireland at Mohali on March 11, 2011.
Pollard, on 53, completed 1,000 runs in ODIs. He became the 28th West Indies player to do so.
Pollard’s 10 sixes are the maximum hit by any batsman in a match against India. The previous record was of nine sixes jointly held by Pakistan’s Ijaz Ahmed and Shahid Afridi.
Pollard has now taken his career tally of sixes to 52 – he is the 13th West Indies batsman to hit 50 sixes in an ODI career.
India’s 4-1 series win is their biggest ever in a bilateral series against West Indies. They had also beaten West Indies 4-1 in 1994-95.
Gautam Gambhir has maintained a clean slate as India’s ODI captain: six wins in six games.



