World Cup highlights: West Indies vs Pakistan

Following are the statistical highlights of the first World Cup quarter-final between Pakistan and the West Indies in Mirpur.

 

# Kamran Akmal and Mohammad Hafeez, with their opening partnership of 113 (unbroken), have established a record for Pakistan against West Indies at the World Cup, obliterating the 78 between Mudassar Nazar and Ramiz Raja at Karachi on October 30, 1987.

 

# Pakistan's highest partnership for any wicket against West Indies at the World Cup is 166 for the second wicket between Majid Khan and Zaheer Abbas at The Oval on June 20, 1979.

 

# Devon Smith is the first West Indian to make 300 runs (ave.42.85) in the present competition.

 

# Mohammad Hafeez (2/16) has registered his best bowling performance at the World Cup.

 

# Saeed Ajmal (2/18) has produced his best bowling figures at the World Cup.

 

# Shivnarine Chanderpaul (44 not out) has posted his highest innings in the 2011 edition of the World Cup.

 

# Chanderpaul has aggregated 970 runs at an average of 40.41 in 31 games at the World Cup, including one hundred and seven half-centuries.

 

# Darren Bravo has posted his second duck at the World Cup - his first was against Ireland at Mohali on March 11.

 

# Shahid Afridi (4/30) has registered his best bowling figures against West Indies in ODIs, bettering the 4 for 38 at Gros Islet on May 21, 2005.

 

# Devon Thomas has posted his first duck in ODIs.

 

# Devendra Bishoo has recorded his first duck in ODIs.

 

# Pakistan's ten-wicket magnificent victory is their largest in terms of wickets over West Indies in ODIs. They had defeated West Indies by eight wickets twice - at Sydney on January 14, 1997 and at Lahore on November 4, 1997.

 

# Pakistan's aforesaid win is their third in nine matches against West Indies at the World Cup.

 

# West Indies (112) have posted their lowest total against Pakistan at the World Cup - their third lowest overall, next only to the 93 against Kenya at Pune on February 29, 1996 and 110 against Australia at Manchester on May 30, 1999.

 

# Afridi took his wickets' tally to 28 at an average of 18.00 in 19 matches at the World Cup.

 

# Afridi became the first bowler to record four instances of four wickets or more in one edition of the World Cup.

 

# Afridi's marvellous performance is his best against a Test-playing side at the World Cup, eclipsing the 4 for 34 against Sri Lanka at Colombo RPS on February 26, 2011.

 

# With his wickets' tally of 21 wickets at an average of 10.71 in seven games in the 2011 World Cup tournament, Afridi has set two landmarks - most wickets by a Pakistani bowler in a World Cup competition besides the most wickets by a captain in a single edition at the World Cup.

 

# Afridi is now the only one to record two instances of five-wicket hauls apart from two instances of four wicket in an innings. Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne are two other bowlers to have registered four instances of four wicket-hauls at the World Cup.

 

# Pakistan's magnificent win is their first by ten wickets at the World Cup. They had won by 9 wickets twice in the past - against UAE at Gujranawala on February 24, 1996 and against New Zealand at Manchester on June 16, 1999.

 

# Pakistan have won with 175 balls to spare - their biggest in terms of balls remaining, eclipsing their win against Canada with 119 balls to spare at Leeds on June 9, 1979.

 

# Mohammad Hafeez has got his fourth Man of the Match award.

 

# Hafeez's first fifty at the World Cup is his 8th in ODIs.