ODI Man of the Match Award No. 10

India v New Zealand (1994/95 season)

Sachin's Score: 62 runs (54 balls, 13 fours)
Sachin's Bowling Figures:

Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Econ
10	2	29	2	2.9

Date: 3 November 1994
Venue: Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Result: India won by 107 runs
Series: Wills World Series - 6th match

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Overall Match Analysis : At Delhi, November 3. India won by 107 runs. Toss: India. After the chastening experience of Kanpur, where India lost to the windies by 46 runs (sachin scoring 34), the Indian batsmen were back in striking form, falling only ten short of their highest-ever limited-overs score, 299 against Sri Lanka in 1986-87. India got to a rocking start thanks to AJ & SRT who put up a brilliant 100 run opening partnership thus taking the sting out of the Kiwi bowling attack. Azharuddin and Kambli rounded the innings off with 67 in 46 balls. New Zealand were helpless once they were reduced to 27/3. But there were flashes of brilliance from Fleming, who hit 56 off 48 balls; he and Parore took 23 runs off Chetan Sharma's only over and added 79 together before Tendulkar scotched their last hopes with two wickets.

Sachin's Performance Analysis: Sachin's opening partnership of 100 with AJ bolstered India's score leaving New Zealand dumb-struck. In his knock of 62 runs, 52 came from boundaries. He also went on to take the crucial wicket of Stephen Flemming thereby breaking the dangerous parntnership between Parore and Flemming who looked to threaten the Indian bowling attack.

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Trivia: ╠►Azhar crossed 5000 runs in this match.

╠►This was Jadeja's highest score till then, his previous best being 87 vs Australia.

Man of the Match Award No.9

India v New Zealand 1994-95

Sachin's Score: 115 runs (136 balls, 3x6, 9x4)
Sachin's Bowlings Figures: 3-0-27-0

Date: 28 October 1994
Venue: IPCL ground, Vadodra
Toss: New Zealand won & elected to bat first
Result: India won by 7 wickets

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Overall Match & Sachin's Performance Analysis: The batsmen have traditionally enjoyed this high-scoring venue with a true wicket that holds up throughout the length of a 50-over game. A slow pitch at the small IPCL ground was ideal for batting: Rutherford reached his maiden hundred in his 103rd one-day international, only to be trumped when Tendulkar returned to form with 115. Rutherford scored at more than a run a ball and hit 13 fours, while Parore, who helped him add 180, made 96 without a boundary hit. Restored to open, Tendulkar was dropped on eight, bided his time in a 144-run stand with Prabhakar, and then broke out in a flurry of shots. He hit nine fours and three sixes in 136 balls. Though he was run out when Azharuddin's straight drive ricocheted off Nash's hands on to the stumps, victory was a near-formality.

Trivia:

╠► Sachin Tendulkar has scored the maximum runs at this Vadodara IPCL stadium which is 428 runs in 6 innings at an average of 85.60 & a Strike rate of 87.70

╠► Sachin's score of 115 in this match was the 2nd highest score on this venue with Sachin himself holding the record of highest score of 122 against RSA on the same venue.

╠► Sachin also holds the record of highest centuries in this venue which is 3 and that also incudes the 115 runs knock against the Kiwis.


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Originally Posted by Kunal

Man of the Match Award No. 8

India vs Australia 1994-95

Sachin's Score: 110 (130) (4s - 8, 6s - 2)
Sachin's Bowling Figures: 3 0 15 0 - 5.00(eco)

Date: 9 September 1994
Venue: R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo (Sri Lanka)
Result: India won by 31 runs
Series: Singer World Series in Sri Lanka (Aus Ind Pak SL) : Sep 1994

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Almanack report: Toss: India.
Tendulkar's maiden century in 78 one-day internationals was fashioned from a blazing assault in the first hour. He raced to 50 in 43 balls, knocking first the pace bowlers and then Warne - with two sixes in an over - out of the attack. His 110 from 132 balls should have been the platform for a huge total; India reached 100 in the 18th over. It never quite materialised after he played over a yorker from McDermott, but India won calmly, with Prabhakar challenging Tendulkar for the match award. He took a return catch off Taylor, two further wickets, another catch and two run-outs. Australia's only substantial partnership was 67 from Mark Waugh and Boon.

Match notes: This was 3rd match of the Singer World series. As India already lost to Sri Lanka in the opening game and Australia defeated Pakistan so it was extremely necessary for India to win this match. As usual Sachin rose to the occasion and he went on to score his first century in ODI. Finally India won the match. As it happened it was only victory for India in the series and India reached to the final and defeated Sri Lanka to clinch the Singer World Series.

Eye Witness Account: I started watching cricket in the same year (1994). As my father himself is Sachin's big fan so that made me to watch Sachin's batting always and I turned to be his big fan too in due course of time. I saw this match live but was too young to understand his shots. If I'm correct the match was telecast on DD-1 and we used to have interruption due to DD-news and the telecast was used to shift on DD-2. But we had only DD-1 coming to our TV.

Orinigally Posted by Mukesh