Match 12: India Vs Ireland: India won by 8 wickets
Here is the statistical highlights of the ICC World Twenty20 Championships Group A match between India and Ireland.
- Between September 19, 2007 and June 10, 2009 India have won six games in a row, extending their record for most successive victories in the ICC World Twenty20.
- India’s eight-wicket triumph is their biggest in Twenty20 Internationals, obliterating the seven-wicket victory at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai on October 20, 2007.
- Zaheer Khan (4/19) has become the third Indian bowler after RP Singh and Pragyan Ojha to claim four wickets in an innings in Twenty20 Internationals.
- Zaheer has received his first Man of the Match award in Twenty20 Internationals.
- Andrew White (29 off 25 balls) has recorded his highest score in Twenty20 Internationals.
- Rohit Sharma has registered his career-best innings – an unbeaten 52 off 45 balls, obliterating the 50 not out off 40 balls against South Africa at Durban on September 20, 2008.
- In the course of his splendid innings of 37 off 31 balls, Gautam Gambhir has completed his 400 runs in Twenty20 Internationals – 415 at an average of 31.92 in 14 matches. He is the first Indian to accomplish the feat.
- Gambhir, with his aforesaid innings, has become the first player to aggregate 300 runs in the ICC World Twenty20, making 314 at an average of 39.25, including four fifties, in nine games.
