1975: Group stage.
1979: Group stage (no wins).
1983: Won, vs WI in finals.
1987: Lost in SF to Eng.
1992: Group stage.
1996: Lost in SF to SL.
1999: Super Six.
2003: Lost in final to Aus. Tendulkar is Man of the Series.
2007: Group stage.
2011: Won, vs SL in finals. Yuvraj is Man of the Series.
2015: Lost in SF to Aus.
2019: Lost in SF to NZ.
Tim Paine inspired this post https://abn397.wordpress.com/2018/03/31/wicket-keepers-who-captained-in-tests/ which deserves a follow-up for other formats.
Wicket keepers who captained in ODIs:
(This is as on 31 March 2018 and does not include matches involving multinational sides such as World XI, Asia XI and Africa XI).
MS Dhoni is far ahead of anyone else. The runner-up in Tests, Mushfiqur Rahim is somewhat further down here.
As in Tests, there are some “hybrids” who did not keep wickets in all their matches. They include:
KC Sangakkara: kept wickets in all his 45 matches as captain (though he did not keep while captaining in Tests).
AJ Stewart: captained in 41 ODIs, 39 while keeping and 2 when not keeping.
AB de Villiers: captained in 103 ODIs, 30 as keeper and 73 as non-keeper.
LD Chandimal: captained in 7 ODIs but was not keeper in any.
R Dravid: captained in 79 ODIs, 5 as keeper and 74 as non-keeper.
(This list is not exhaustive).
We may see Australia’s new keeper-captain TD Paine here soon. Gilchrist and Healy from Australia are already there.
Now for T20Is:
Wicket keepers who captained in T20Is:
(This is as on 31 March 2018 and does not include matches involving multinational sides such as the World XI).
MS Dhoni is again head and shoulders above everyone else. His Test runner-up Mushfiqur Rahim is runner-up here, unlike in ODIs.
A few curiosities:
KC Sangakkara captained in 22 T20Is and was keeper in all of them (unlike in his Test captaincy where he never kept).
AB de Villiers captained in 18 T20Is, 11 as keeper and 7 as non-keeper.
LD Chandimal captained in 26 T20Is, 10 as keeper and 16 as non-keeper.
(This list is not exhaustive).
And Australia’s Paine is set to join his compatriots Gilchrist and Haddin on this list.
At the turn of the century, Indian batsmen held more than half the ODI partnership records. To be precise, the partnerships for the first five wickets plus the 9th wicket.
On 31 December, 1999, these were the partnership records for ODIs:
1st: SC Ganguly and SR Tendulkar, 252 vs SL, Colombo (Premadasa), 07/07/1998
2nd: SR Tendulkar and R Dravid, 331 vs NZ, Hyderabad (Deccan), 08/11/1999
3rd: R Dravid and SR Tendulkar, 237* v Ken, Bristol, 23/05/1999
4th: M Azharuddin and A Jadeja, 275* v Zim, Cuttack, 09/04/1998
5th: M Azharuddin and A Jadeja, 223 v SL, Colombo (Premadasa), 17/08/1997
The other record ODI partnerships on that date were:
6th: MO Odumbe and AV Vadher, 161, Ken v SL, Southampton, 30/05/1999
7th: TM Odoyo and AO Suji, Ken v Zim, 119, Nairobi (Aga), 16/10/1997
8th: PR Reiffel and SK Warne, 160, Aus v SA, Port Elizabeth, 04/04/1994
9th: Kapil Dev and SMH Kirmani, 126*, Ind v Zim, Tunbridge Wells, 18/06/1983
10th: IVA Richards and MA Holding, 106*, WI v Eng, Manchester, 31/05/1984
Note that the 4th and 10th wicket records mentioned above are still the world ODI records at the time of writing (29/10/2017).
Hope you have read the previous post about 99s.
Nineties in both innings:
Clem Hill was particularly fond of 90s as he scored 99 followed by 98 and 97 mentioned above.
Nineties on debut:
While Chipperfield and Christiani later scored centuries, Asim Kamal finished with his 99 on debut as his top score. VH Stollmeyer made 96 in his only Test innings, which was unfortunately just before WW2 broke out. His younger brother Jeff Stollmeyer had a longer run and captained the West Indies.
Another point of interest is LJ Tancred’s 97 which was the highest score on debut by a South African-until Kepler Wessels scored a century on debut for Australia in 1982-83. The first “genuine” century on debut by a South African was 163 by AC Hudson in the comeback Test against WI in 1991-92.
A number of famous names narrowly missed a century on debut. They include Redpath, Worrell, Ponting, Dravid, SP Fleming and FS Jackson. Many lesser names scored a century on debut and did nothing much afterwards.
PA Gibb (93 and 106) and CG Greenidge (93 and 107) scored a 90 and 100 on debut.
Several players have made two 99s. The latest addition to this club was Misbah-ul-Haq.
If you take all scores between 90 and 99, the record of 10 is shared by Dravid, Tendulkar and Steve Waugh. Next is MJ Slater with 9, with de Villiers, Inzamam and Kallicharan with 8.
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