West Indies won the toss and inserted the opposition in this game providing the 186th occasion of West Indies doing so in ODIs. West Indies lost this game after inserting the opposition providing the 78th occasion of West Indies losing a game after it has inserted the opposition. West Indies has lost nine games after inserting South Africa which includes this game.
HM Amla and AB de Villiers scored 102 runs each in this game providing the 1062 and 1063rd occasion of a batsman scoring a century in one day games. Their hundreds provide the 92nd and 93rd occasion of South African batsman scoring hundreds in one day games.
With HM Amla and AB de Villiers scoring hundreds in this game the number of hundreds scored by South African batsmen against West Indies stood at 14.
HM Amla's 102 and AB de Villiers's 102 in this game provides the 84th occasion of two batsmen scoring hundreds in the same innings in one day games. Their feat in this game represents the sixth occasion of South African batsmen performing such a feat in one day games. The six occasions are - DJ Cullinan (124) and JN Rhodes (121) vs Pakistan at Nairobi (Gym) on 29.09.96, G Kirsten (115) and HH. Gibbs (111) vs India at Kochi on 09.03.00, G Kirsten (124) and ND McKenzie (131*) vs Kenya at Cape Town on 22.10.01, HH Gibbs (102) and AB de Villiers (103*) vs Pakistan at Lahore on 18.10.07, JH Kallis (104*) and AB de Villiers (102*) vs India at Ahmedabad on 27.02.10 and HM Amla (102) and AB de Villiers (102) vs West Indies at North Sound on 22.05.10.
It is interesting to note that there are only two occasions of two batsmen scoring hundreds in an innings against West Indies in one day games. Apart from the South African batsmen's feat in this game, England batsman - AJ Strauss (100) and A Flintoff (123) had made hundreds at Lord's on 06.07.04.
HM Amla's 102 represents his second one day hundred and AB de Villiers's 102 represents his eighth one day hundred.
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