• This was the 2030th One-day International match in cricket history.
• This was South Africa’s 290th and Zimbabwe’s 236th match.
• This was the 16th match between these two sides. The record now reads : South Africa 13, Zimbabwe 2, abandoned 1.
• Mark Boucher was playing his 150th match. He became eighth South African after Jonty Rhodes (245), Shaun Pollock (193), Hansie Cronje (188),Gary Kirsten (185), Jacques Kallis (176) ,Allan Donald (164) and Lance Klusener (154) and 72nd player in the world to do so.
• Graeme Smith, on 6, completed his 1000 runs in One-day internationals. He was playing his 29th match and 28th innings. He became 16th South African and 182nd batsman overall to do so.
• Jacques Kallis scored his second successive hundred. He became the second South African after Herschelle Gibbs to perform the feat of scoring two successive hundreds. Gibbs, in fact, scored three hundreds at a trot and shared the world record of most consecutive hundreds with two Pakistanis Zaheer Abbas and Saeed Anwar.
• Kallis’ successive hundreds were scored on successive days. He thus became only the fourth batsman after Australia’s Dean Jones, Pakistan’s Saeed Anwar and England’s Nick Knight to perform this feat. By taking two catches in the field, Grant Flower became the leading fielder for Zimbabwe against South Africa. He has now taken six catches in 15 matches against South Africa which take him ahead of Alistair Campbell who had taken five catches in 14 games.
• The second wicket partnership of 109 runs between Dion Ebrahim and Travis Friend is Zimbabwe’s best for this wicket against South Africa beating the previous highest of 67 between Alistair Campbell and Stuart Carlisle at Harare on 30-09-2001.
• The tenth wicket unbroken partnership of 14 runs between Tatenda Taibu and Douglas Hondo just managed to beat Zimbabwe’s previous record stand for tenth wicket against South Africa which was of 12 runs between K Duers and John Traicos at Canberra on 10-03-1992.
• Kallis was winning his 20th Man of the match award. He now holds the record of winning most awards for South Africa surpassing Lance Klusener’s tally of 19 such awards. Kallis became only the 16th player in ODI history to aggregate 20 awards.

(Article: Copyright © 2003 Rajneesh Gupta)