Statistical highlights: Pakistan vs Canada
Statistical highlights of the World Cup match between Pakistan and Canada
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- Updated: March 04, 2011 12:26 am IST
Statistical highlights of the World Cup match between Pakistan and Canada
# Umar Akmal's 48 is his second highest in the world cup, behind 71 against Kenya at Hambantota on February 23, 2011.
# Harvir Baidwan (3/35) has recorded his best world cup performance - his second best in ODIs, behind 3 for 24 against Kenya at Schiedam, Netherlands on July 9, 2010.
# Baidwan has claimed seven wickets at 20.14 runs apiece in three matches - the most by a Canadian bowler in the 2011 competition.
# Rizwan Cheema (2/33) has produced his best bowling performance in the world cup.
# Shahid Afridi has claimed 14 wickets at 5.21 runs apiece in three games - the most by a bowler in the 2011 edition of the world cup.
# Afridi became the seventh bowler to capture three suuccessive four-wicket hauls in ODIs, joining Shane Warne, Waqar Younis (three times), Narendra Hirwani, Vasbert Drakes, Khurram Chohan and Abdur Razzak
# Afridi has got 24 Man of the Match awards in ODIs, including two in the world cup - both in the present competition.
# Wahab Riaz's duck on his world cup debut is his fifth in ODIs
# With Ashish Bagai's wicket, Shahid Afridi has become the first bowler to claim 10 wickets in the 2011 edition of the world cup.
# The 60-run stand between Surkari and Hansra for the fourth wicket is Canada's highest for any wicket against Pakistan in the world cup.
# Canada's highest for the fourth wicket in the world cup is 86 between Ian Billcliff and Joe Harris against Kenya at Cape Town on February 15, 2003.
# Canada, with a defeat to Pakistan, have lost eleven consecutive games between February 15, 2003 and March 3, 2011, surpassing Netherlands' tally of 10 defeats in succession in the world cup between February 17,1996 and February 28, 2003. Only Zimbabwe have lost more world cup games than Canada in a row - 18 between June 11, 11983 and March 14, 1992.
# Jimmy Hansara (2/23) has recorded his best bowling performance in the world cup. He had failed to claim a single wicket in hs previous two games.
# Hansara (43) has registered his career-best innings in ODIs, surpassing the 32 against Ireland at Toronto on September 7, 2010.
# Saeed Ajmal has recorded a duck on his world cup debut - his fourth in ODIs.
# Pakistan became the first nation to register three victories in the 2011 edition of the world cup.
# Pakistan have won both their games against Canada in the world cup.
# Netherlands, Canada and Kenya have lost all three games in the 2011 edition of the world cup.
# Pakistan (184) have lost all ten wickets against Canada for the first time in ODIs.
# Shahid Afridi became the first skipper to bag two five-wicket hauls in the world cup - 5 for 16 against Kenya at Hambantota on Feb.23, 2011 and 5 for 23 against Canada at Colombo RPS on March 3, 2011.
# Besides Afridi, Kapil Dev is the only other bowler to take five wickets in an innings in the world cup - 5 for 43 against Australia at Nottingham on June 13, 1983.
# In the history of the world cup, Afridi is the first bowler bag three consecutive four wicket hauls in the world cup. Apart from his two instances of five wickets in an innings, he had claimed four for 34 against Sri Lanka at Colombo RPS on February 26, 2011.