Tag IndvPak Records

Saeed Anwar had a thing against India. His stats, specially in ODIs against India, are brilliant, even if you forget the record breaking 194 at Chepauk Stadium in Chennai which is still the third highest ODI score by a batsman behind Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar's who're only two to make doubles in the format.

India v Pakistan head to head in ODI shows Pakistanis have had better off Indians over the years but in recent times, blue team has done some catch-up. Sharjah has hosted 26 Ind v Pak ODIs (most by any other ground) where once Sachin Tendulkar & Navjot Singh Sidhu put up a partnership of 231 for 2nd wicket which remains the best till date between two teams. here are some of records of between these two arch-rivals.

Highest scores
Saeed Anwar's 194 mentioned above is obviously the best, followed by Virat Kohli's 183 off just 148 balls at Mirpur and then MS Dhoni's belligerent 148 at Viazg. Shoaib Mallik's 143 comes next after which, we again have another Saeed Anwar special of 141 at Dhaka. Sourav Ganguly also once made 141 against Pakistan at Adelaide.

Highest totals :
For India - 356 for 9 at Vizag 2004, 349 for 7 at Karachi 2003 & 328 at Peshawar 2005.
For Pakistan - 344 for 8 at Karachi 2003, 329 for 6 at Rawalpindi 2003 & 327 for 5 at Chennai 1997

Lowest totals :
By India - 79 at Sialkot 1978, 112 Lahore 1989, Sharjah 125 in 1984
By Pakistan - 87 at Sharjah 1984, 116 Toronto 1997 & 134 Sharjah 1983

Centuries :
21 centuries for India, 148 by Dhoni at Vizag is the best ever. Tendulkar has 5 centuries against Pakistan while Virender Sehwag, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Rahul Dravid, Md Azharuddin and Sourav Ganguly have 2 each.
37 centuries for Pakistan, 194 by Anwar is the best ever. 5 for Salman Butt and 4 each for Inzamam-ul-Haq, Saeed Anwar and Shoaib Mallik.

Highest Partnerships :
India = 231 is the best for 2nd wicket between Sachin Tendulkar & Navjot Singh Sinhu at Sharjah. 159, 231, 201, 149, 135, 132*, 89*, 52, 52 & 40 is wicket wise partnership record for India against Pakistan.
Pakistan = 230 is the best for 3rd wicket bewteen Saeed Anwar & Ijaz Ahmed at Dhaka. 144, 205, 230, 163*, 142, 82, 99, 64, 45* & 42 is wicket wise partnership record for Pakistan against India.

Best bowling figures :
India = 5 wickets for 16 runs by Sourav Ganguly in 1997 at Toronto. Arsad Ayub, Venkatesh Prasad & Sachin Tendulkar have also picked up 5 wicket hauls for India against Pakistan.
Pakistan = 7 wickets for 37 runs by Aaqib Javed at (venue) Sharjah in 1991 remains the best bowling with Imran Khan's 6 for 14 & Rana Naved-ul-Hasan's 6 for 27 at Jamshedpur.. a total of 10 Pakistan bowlers have recorded 5 wickets in an innings against India.

Biggest Victory margins
Another record dominated by Pakistan team. 159 run victory over India at Delhi in 2005 remains the biggest victory margin between the two teams, but more importantly - Pakistan have also beaten India by 143 runs(Jaipur, 1999), 134run (Toronto, 1998), 123 (Bangalore, 1999), 116, 106 and 104 runs. The biggest win for India over Pakistan is only 87, at Kochi 2005.. the 12th highest win margin between the sub-continent giant cricket teams.

smallest totals & victory margins
The very first encounter between these two - at Quetta back on 1st October 1978 was won by India by merely 4 runs. Pakistan have also beaten India by 4 runs at Sharjah once and that remains the lowest win margin. as I said earlier - there has been no tied match ever India-pakistan one day match!

Most Extras
Although Indian team'f fielding has been better than that of Pakistan for some years now - India conceeded 41 extras against arch-rivals at a Mohali game on 8th November 2007 - the maxmum ever. India have also give 39, 38 (thrice), 37(twice), 33(thrice) & 32 as extras in single innings. Pakistan most extra in one Indian batting innings is only 31 - 12th in the list!

Wicket-keeper's
hold an important significance in ever cricket match, but even more in Indo-pak matches cause players of both side understand each-other's language. Moin Khan was one such talk-a-tive wicketkeeper for Pakistan, who holds the record of most dismissals between the neighbouring countries - 58 catches + 13 stumpings = 71 total. For India, Nayan Mongia comes in second position with 29 scalps. Interestingly, Mongia once took 3 catches & effected 2 stumpings in one match at Toronto 1996 & those 5 dismissals in one innings is the best ever!

Compilation records :
Inzamam-ul-Haq has the most runs in India vs Pakistan matches, with 2403 from 67 matches. Sachin Tendulkar has made 64 appearances for his 2225 runs whereas Saeed Anwar comes at 3rd place with 2002 runs. In terms of highest average, Javed Miadad played 35 ODIs against India to make 1175 runs at 51.08 runs per innings.
Wasim Akram & Saqlain Mushtaq lead the most wickets records in Ind v Pak ODIs with 60 & 57 wickets respectively. Aaqib Javed is at 3rd position, so the best bowler for India against Pakistan has been Anil Kumble. He has 54 wickets. In terms of strike rate, Imran Khan took wickets at 22.25 a piece.