Stats: Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe 1st ODI - Afghanistan's 50th International Win

Noor Ali Zadran’s knock was the difference between the teams, on a pitch where all other batsmen struggled 

50- Number of Wins Afghanistan have now in all International Cricket Matches- Afghanistan have played 93 International Matches and have lost 43. Afghanistan have won 29 ODIs and 21 T20Is.

12- Number of teams before Afghanistan to have registered 50 victories in all international cricket matches- Afghanistan became the 13th team to do so. Netherlands have won 49 matches and need just one to join this club as its 14th member.

63- Runs made by Noor Ali Zadran in this match- Also one more than the number of 50 plus scores Afghanistani openers have made in ODIs. They have made 62 fifty-plus scores in ODIs,

859- Runs Noor Ali Zadran has scored as opener in ODIs- 7th most for any opener among non-test playing nations. With his 63 today, he went past Kyle Coetzer (Scotland) who has 831 ODI runs to his name.

31.81- the batting average of Noor Zadran in ODIs which is 2nd highest among all players from Afghanistan (min 150 runs), Only Sami Ullah Shanwari (34.28) is above Zadran.

21- Runs scored by Peter Moor in this match- his highest score in an ODI game. Incidentally, also the number of times a team has won an ODI game after setting a target of less than or equal to 150 runs. Last time it was India which won the match against Bangladesh at Mirpur in June 2014. In that game, India batting first scored 105 and dismissed Bangladesh for 58 runs.

3rd- Biggest Win by runs for any team in completed ODIs after scoring less than 150 runs in first innings. Afghanistan defeated Zimbabwe by 49 runs which is the 3rd biggest win after India's 81 run win against Sri Lanka (D/L) and 65 run win of Kenya against Zimbabwe.

4-17 - Figures of Amir Hamza in this match- his personal best and 3rd best among all bowlers from Afghanistan. Only Rehmat Shah's 5-32 and Hamid Hassan's 5-45 are above Amir Hamza's figures. It is also only the 14th instance when an Afghani bowler has got 4 or more wickets in an ODI game.

17- Number of times a Zimbabwean player has taken 5 or more wickets in an ODI game. Cremer's 5-20 in this game was the 17th such instance.

77- Number of times a bowler has taken five-for in an ODI game and ended up on losing side. Cremer took 5 wickets in this match but Afghanistan won the game.

1- Zimbabwean bowler before Cremer to have taken more than 1 five-for, bowling at position after 3. Cremer has two such five-fors while Paul Strang is the other player from Zimbabwe to do so. He has also two five-wicket hauls at bowling positions after 3.

13- Number of Times Zimbabwe have been dismissed for less than 100 in an ODI innings- 2nd most for any team after Bangladesh (16). This was their first against Afghanistan. Afghanistan have now dismissed a team under 100 in an ODI game for 3 times- Previously they have achieved it twice against Kenya. Zimbabwe's 82 in this game is lowest for any team versus Afghanistan in an ODI game.

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