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Stats: Yuvraj first Indian to score a ton at Chepauk in WC

March 21, 2011 11:12 IST

Statistical highlights from the match between India [ Images ] and West Indies [ Images ] played in Chennai on Sunday.

# India's 80-run triumph is their biggest over West Indies in terms of runs in the World Cup, bettering the 43-run win in the 1983 final at Lord's.

# India have posted their fourth victory in seven World Cup games against West Indies.

# Yuvraj Singh [ Images ] (113 off 123 balls) has recorded his first hundred in the 2011 edition of the World Cup.

# Yuvraj Singh became the first player in the 2011 edition of the World Cup to post a hundred apart from three fifties.

# Yuvraj has received three Man of the Match awards -- the first to achieve the feat in the 2011 edition of the World Cup.

Yuvraj Singh# Yuvraj has captured nine wickets in the present tournament at an average of 25.22 -- his best in a series/competition.

# Yuvraj's third hundred against West Indies is his 13th in ODIs. His previous two hundreds against West Indies were 131 at Kingston [ Images ] on June 26, 2009 and 110 at Colombo RPS on August 7, 2005.

# Yuvraj and Virat Kohli [ Images ] have shared a stand of 122 for the third wicket -- India's best against West Indies at the World Cup.

# Yuvraj has become the first Indian batsman to register a hundred at Chepauk at the World Cup.

# Yuvraj has also become the first Indian all-rounder to post a century and take two wickets in the same game at the World Cup. He is the ninth all-rounder to achieve the feat, joining Aamir Sohail, Aravinda de Silva, Neil Johnson, Feiko Kloppenburg, Sanath Jayasuriya [ Images ], Ryan ten Doeschate, Tillakaratne Dilshan [ Images ] and Paul Stirling.

# Yuvraj has totalled 284 in six matches at an average of 94.66 besides claiming 9 wickets at 25.22 runs apiece in the present edition of the World Cup.

# With 24 wickets at an average of 18.70 in eleven matches, Zaheer Khan [ Images ] is the top wicket-taker in 2011, bettering Brett Lee's [ Images ] figures of 23 at 19.73 runs apiece in 12 games.

# Zaheer has taken his tally of wickets to 15 at 14.86 runs apiece in six matches -- the second best in the tenth edition of the World Cup, next only to Shahid Afridi's [ Images ] 17 at 11.47 runs apiece.

# Devon Smith [ Images ] has posted his fifth fifty in ODIs -- his first against India.

# Smith's brilliant 81 off 97 balls is his second highest innings at the World Cup -- the highest is 107 against Ireland at Mohali on March 11, 2011.

# Ravi Rampaul (5/51), on his World Cup debut, has bowled splendidly to take five wickets -- his career-best in ODIs.

# Rampaul's previous best bowling performance in ODIs was 4 for 37 against India at Kingston on June 28, 2009.

# Rampaul is the fifth bowler to take five wickets in a World Cup match for West Indies. Winston Davis, Kemar Roach, Vasbert Drakes (twice) and Joel Garner had registered the feats previously.

# Rampaul has become the second West Indian and the sixth bowler to capture five wickets on World Cup debut.  He has joined Winston Davis -- 7 for 51 against Australia [ Images ] at Leeds on

June 11, 1983, Gary Gilmour -- 6 for 14 against England [ Images ] at Leeds on June 18, 1975, Austin Codrington -- 5 for 27 against Bangladesh at Durban on February 11, 2003, Dennis Lillee – 5 for 34 against Pakistan at Leeds on June 7, 1975 and Damien Fleming -- 5 for 36 against India at Mumbai [ Images ] on February 27, 1996.

# Rampaul became the first bowler to bag five wickets in a World Cup innings at Chennai, eclipsing the four for 15 by England's Stuart Broad [ Images ] against South Africa [ Images ] on March 6, 2011.

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