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Monday 17, November 2008

England earned the distinction of becoming the seventh country to play 500 ODIs at Indore. India have played the most with 698.

Yuvraj Singh’s hundred is the eleventh by an Indian batsman against England. He became the sixth batsman to register three or more one-day hundreds against then, joining Sanath Jayasuriya (four), Mahela Jayawardene four), Dean Jones (three), Ricky Ponting (three) and Vivian Richards (three).

Yuvraj Singh joins three Indian batsmen on ten or more one-day hundreds. Sachin Tendulkar (42), Sourav Ganguly (22) and Rahul Dravid (12), being the others.

Stuart Broad becomes the only England bowler to capture four wickets on two occasions against India. Along with his 4-55 in this game, he had taken 4-51 at Manchester in 2007.

Yuvraj Singh becomes the fourth batsman to register five or more hundreds on Indian soil. The other two are Sachin Tendulkar (16) and Rahul Dravid (six) and West Indies' Chris Gayle (six).

Gautam Gambhir (70), Yuvraj Singh (118) and Yousuf Pathan (50 not out) all registered fifties in this game providing the eighth instance of three or more Indian batsmen reaching this mark against England in an ODI.

Ian Bell becomes the third England opener to be dismissed run out on two or more occasions against India. The other two are Greame Fowler and Nick Knight on three occasions. Ian Bell’s two run outs, by coincidence, have come at the same venue. He was also dismissed run out at Indore in 2006.

Yuvraj Singh became the tenth all rounder in the world to register a hundred and capture four or more wickets in the same ODI. The complete list is...

Vivian Richards, 119 and 5-41, WI v NZ, Dunedin 1987

Nathan Astle, 117 and 4-43, NZ v Pak, Mohali 1997

Sachin Tendulkar, 141 and 4-38, Ind v Aus, Dhaka 1998

Sourav Ganguly, 130* and 4-21, Ind v SL, Nagpur 1999

Sanath Jayasuriya, 122 and 4-39, SL v Aus, Sydney 2003

JF Kloppenburg, 121 and 4-42, Net v Nam, Bloemfontein 2003

Chris Gayle, 112* and 4-24, WI v Zim, Harare 2003

Shoaib Malik, 118 and 4-19, Pak v HKG, Colombo 2004

Paul Collingwood, 112* and 6-31, Eng v Ban, Nottingham 2005

Yuvraj Singh, 118 and 4-28, Ind v Eng , Indore 2008

Stuart Broad (4-55) and Yuvraj Singh (4-28) both captured four wickets in this match; only the fourth instance of rival bowlers capturing four-plus wickets in the same match in an India-England one-day series. The others are Paul Jarvis (5-34) and Javagal Srinath (5-41), Bangalore 1993. Kabir Ali (4-45) and Harbhajan Singh (5-31), Delhi 2006 and Stuart Broad (4-51) and Ajit Agarkar (4-60), Manchester 2007.

Yuvraj Singh became the second batsman to aggregate 1000-plus runs against England, after Sachin Tendulkar, with 1274 runs. Yuvraj reached the mark when he was on 58 during his innings of 118.

Statistics courtesy of HR GOPALA KRISHNA, official statistician to BCCI.tv and iplt20.com