- Rayad Emrit made his ODI debut for the West Indies. He became the 133rd player to represent the West Indies in ODIs.
- India made five changes in their squad that played at Cuttack, Robin Uthappa, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Anil Kumble and S Sreesanth replacing Sourav Ganguly, MS Dhoni, Joginder Sharma, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan. Five changes look a tall figure, but this is nowhere near the existing Indian record of most changes in two successive matches of the same series.
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In the Coca Cola Series in 1997-98, India made seven changes in their squad that played at Mumbai against Bangladesh from the one that played against Kenya at Bangalore.
-The five changes are however the most for India in two successive matches of a bilateral series. Against New Zealand in 1988-89 (at Baroda) and, most recently, against England in 2005-06 (at Indore) India made five changes in their squad from the previous game.
- Robin Uthappa's innings of 70 runs off 41 balls (SR-170.73) is the third best by any batsman scoring at least a fifty against West Indies. Only Kapil Dev (72 off 38 balls -- SR 189.47) at Berbice in 1982-83 and Shahid Afridi (56 off 30 balls -- SR 186.66) at Gros Islet in 2005 have performed better.
- Rahul Dravid became the fourth Indian player to complete 2,000 runs in ODIs as captain after Mohammad Azharuddin (5,239), Sourav Ganguly (5,082) and Sachin Tendulkar (2,454). Sourav Ganguly is the fastest among Indians to reach this landmark with 49 innings, followed by Tendulkar and Dravid (56 apiece) and Azharuddin (59). The ODI record is on the name of West Indian Viv Richards with 48 innings.
- Sachin Tendulkar (60) scored his 75th ODI fifty. What was surprising was that his innings contained only two fours. This is his highest score with least number of boundaries. The previous highest such score for Tendulkar was an unbeaten 57 with two fours also against the West Indies at Melbourne in 1991-92.
- All ten Indian batsmen were dismissed caught. This was the second such instance for India and tenth in all ODIs. India had also lost all ten wickets in this way to Pakistan at Birmingham in 2004.
- Dwayne Bravo (4-39) returned his best ODI figures, surpassing his previous best of 3 for 14 against Bangladesh at Jaipur in 2006 Champions Trophy.
- Chris Gayle was dismissed off the first ball of the West Indies innings. This was the second time Gayle suffered the ignominy of falling to the first ball of team innings. In the final of DLF Cup against Australia at Kuala Lumpur in 2006-07 Gayle was trapped lbw by Brett Lee.
- Gayle has now been dismissed without scoring 16 times in his career - 15 times for West Indies (on one occasion he was representing World XI). Gayle now holds the dubious distinction of aggregating most ducks for the West Indies, moving ahead of Brian Lara, who has 14 ducks against his name.
- Ajit Agarkar became the fifth Indian bowler to dismiss an opposition batsman with the first ball of the team's innings. Others to do so are: Debasish Mohanty, Zaheer Khan, Venkatesh Prasad (twice apiece) and Kapil Dev. Venkatesh Prasad was the last Indian to get a wicket off the first ball of the innings, in the second innings (v Kenya at Nairobi in 1999-00).
- Sreesanth conceded 22 runs in his first over -- second over of the West Indies innings. The sequence being -- 4, 4wides, 4wides, 0, 0, 0, 4, 4.
- Marlon Samuels (98) became 14th West Indian player to become a victim of the nervous nineties.
- The 25 wides in the West Indies total are the third most conceded by Indian bowlers in an innings after 31 wides against Kenya at Bristol in 1999 World Cup and 28 against England at the Oval in 2004.
-The 25 wides are the most conceded by India in a home match, 'improving' upon 23 wides conceded against Pakistan at Calcutta in 2004-05 and also against Sri Lanka at Baroda in 2005-06.
- Samuels won his fifth man of the match award -- his second against India.
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