600 run outs by Australians

When England last batsman Graham Onions run out during the ICC Champions Trophy semi final on Friday it was 600th victim of run out against Australia in the history of One Day International. This was Australia’s 719th ODI and Onions was 5550th wicket for Australia. So the Oz have taken 10.81% of there total wicket by run out.
Naturally Australians are very agile in the fielding but still this is not world record. There were 614 batsmen ran out themselves against India. So India is on top of the table so far made run out the rivals is concern and India’s percentage (12.71) is also high in comparison to Australia. However my friend Nikhilesh argues Australian bowlers are not giving that much chance to their fielder and statistics are also favors Nikhilesh ‘s argument.
Australian bowlers have taken more then 1000 wickets as BOWLED and 3171 wickets as CAUGHT.
Here are the details of how the teams have taken wickets as run out. (more then 100 run outs only)
Team (Run outs)

India (614)
Australia (600)
Pakistan (569)
West Indies (510)
Sri Lanka (492)
New Zealand (449)
South Africa (402)
England (395)
Zimbabwe (261)
Bangladesh (126)

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Century of Day 3 in ODI history

When New Zealand take on Pakistan in the first semifinal of the ICC
Champions Trophy on 3rd October at The Wanderers, Johannesburg, it
would be the 100th ODI to be played on the 3rd day of the month.
Before this, 99 matches have been played on the 3rd of the any month
of the calendar year and India has played most of it. Men in Blue are
involved in 26 encounters. Today's will be 10th match on 3rd October.
Similarly, most ODI matches hosted on a single date of the month are
115 each on 18th and 20th of the month. Pakistan have played 33 ODIs
on 20th of any month while India has played 31 matches on the 18th day
of a month. There are 9 days who completed of century of ODI. 102 on 9th date, 103 on 11th date, 100 on 12th day of the month, 104 on 14th day, 103 on 15th day, 102 on 17th day, 115 each on 18th and 20th day, 101 on 22nd day and 106 on 26th day.
India has played 33 matches on 26th of the month.
And at last… there are 15 ODIs played on 3 April (most on 3rd of any month) and only TWO on 3rd May and 3rd June.

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Its 250 anyway for England

When England will play against Australia at Centurion in the Semi final of the ICC Champions Trophy on Friday ‘the figure 250’ hit in any case. So far England has played 521 ODI. They won 249 and also lost 249 of them. So whether England won or loss it would be its 250th ODI. England involved 18 no result and 5 tied games.
Interestingly England won the toss for 250 times so far.
This will be England’s 9th Semi finals in any multi national tournaments. They have played 8 till date with 4-win, 4-loss record.
England and Australia have fought in 3 semi finals with only one won by former and 2 by later. In all ODI both have played 100 matches so far with Australia have won 58 of them. Both have played 7 matches at neutral venues and again Australia has upper hand with 5 wins. However in the Champions Trophy both have won one each in the previous TWO encounters.
Ricky Ponting needs 52 runs to become highest run scorer between the two rivals. Graham Gooch has scored 1395 runs in 32 ODI against England while Ponting scored 1343 in 33 so far against the arch rivals.
Brett Lee needs THREE wickets to over take former team mates Glenn McGrath’s 53 wickets against England. Brett Lee has 51 wickets in 27 matches Vs England while McGrath has played 33 matches for his 53 wickets.

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