Openers in One Day Internationals
Did you know? KL Rahul is the only Indian player to score a century in his debut innings in ODIs. Co-incidentally, in Tests also he scored a century in his first innings as an opener. Take our quiz on openers in ODIs and see how you fare.
Before this match, Sachin Tendulkar had played 69 ODIs mostly batting at numbers 4 and 5.
India had already qualified for the semi-finals. Chetan Sharma took a hat-trick, the first for India. The hat-trick was also the first by a bowler in World Cup history.
Ravi Shastri scored a 102 against Australia in Indore in 1984. Interestingly Kepler Wessels was playing for Australia at that time.
Geoff Marsh and David Boon both scored centuries against India in Jaipur in 1986. Interestingly, this match also saw the first century for Kris Srikkanth in ODIs.
Herschelle Gibbs played his last ODI innings in that match. His last match was the 3rd ODI in 2010, but he didn’t bat in that game.
Abid Ali was the recent opener to score a century in his debut match against Australia in Dubai in 2019. He is the only men’s cricketer to score a ton on both his Test and ODI debuts.
Faiz Fazal, the Vidarbha batsman made his ODI debut on the tour of Zimbabwe in 2016. He has not played any international match since then.
Desmond Haynes scored 148 on his debut in 1978 and 115 in his last ODI in 1994 against Australia and England respectively.
Sanath Jayasuriya has been dismissed twice on 99. In 2001 against India in Colombo (RPS) and in 2003 against England in Adelaide.