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It's 1992-93 in reverse
Wisden CricInfo staff - February 3, 2002
England drew their second consecutive one-day series in India 3-3, and the roles were precisely reversed. In 1992-93 England won the first match, lost the second, won the third and fourth and lost the last two games; this time India went 1-0 up, England equalised, India went 3-1 up and then England won the last two.
In his 34th match, Andrew Flintoff took 3 for 38, his best one-day bowling figures. His previous-best was 2 for 3, against Pakistan at Sharjah in 1998-99.
Michael Vaughan, playing in his 26th match (13 Tests, 13 ODIs), took his first international wickets, and ended with 2 for 37.
James Foster made his seventh stumping in his 10th one-day international. Only one England keeper - Alec Stewart - has made more stumpings, and it took him 146 matches to manage 11. Jack Russell and Bob Taylor both made six, in 40 and 27 ODIs respectively.
Harbhajan Singh took 5 for 43, his first one-day five-for. His previous-best figures were 3 for 29, against Sri Lanka in Colombo in 2001. Harbhajan also took his 50th wicket, in his 40th match.
Harbhajan is the third man to take a five-for in one-dayers on this ground, and the first Indian and the first spinner. The others are Winston Benjamin and Damien Fleming. This is the 12th ODI on this ground.
Flintoff and Darren Gough added 37, the highest partnership for the tenth wicket in one-day internationals on this ground. The previous-best was 36, by Andy Pycroft and Malcolm Jarvis for Zimbabwe against India in the 1987 World Cup.
It is also England's highest tenth-wicket partnership in 42 ODIs against India, surpassing the 13 that Ashley Giles and Matthew Hoggard added in the first match of this series at Calcutta.
Gough made 16 not out, only his second double-figure score in 36 one-dayers since the 1999 World Cup. He made 40 not out against Pakistan at Headingley in 2001.
Nasser Hussain, made 41, his fourth score in the forties in his last seven one-dayers. Starting with the last game of England's one-day series in Zimbabwe, Hussain's run of scores reads: 47, 25, 46, 1, 15, 49 and 41.
Rob Smyth is on the staff of Wisden.com.
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