- It was the 1722nd ODI in cricket history.
- It was England’s 328th and Pakistan’s 497th ODI.
- It was the 48th match between these two sides. The record now reads :Pakistan 19,England 28 and abandoned one.
- It was the 22nd match between these two sides in England. The recordnow reads : Pakistan 7, England 15.
- It was the fourth match between these two sides at Lord’s. Both teamshave won two matches each.
- Former Test player Neil Mallender was making his international debutas umpire. He became 32nd English umpire to officiate in a ODI. Theother umpire Ken Palmer was standing in his 23rd match.
- Inzamam-ul-Haq failed to open his account in two successive inningsfor the first time in his career.
- Trescothick’s innings was the fourth joint highest by an Englishman inall ODIs and second highest against Pakistan The best still remains142 by Graham Gooch at Karachi on 20-11-1987. Incidentally theprevious highest by an English batsman against Pakistan at home soilwas 125* by Nick Knight at Trent Bridge on 01-09-1996.
- Trescthick just failed to surpass West Indian Viv Richards’ 138*against England in the 1979 World Cup final which still remains thehighest individual innings ever played at Lord’s. Trescothick’s placeis second alongwith countryman Dennis Amiss who had an identical scoreagainst India on 07-06-1975
- Trescothick contributed 57.08 % in England’s totalthe third highestcontribution by an Englishman in a complete innings. This was also thethird highest contribution by a batsman in a match against Pakistan.The details :
Batsman | % | Runs | Score | For | Vs | Venue | Date |
IVA Richards | 69.49 | 189* | 9/272 | WI | Eng | Old Trafford | 31-05-1984 |
N Kapil Dev | 65.79 | 175* | 8/266 | Ind | Zim | Tunbridge Wells | 18-06-1983 |
AH Jones | 63.51 | 47 | 74 | NZ | Pak | Sharjah | 01-05-1990 |
ST Jayasuriya | 63.21 | 189 | 5/299 | SL | Ind | Sharjah | 29-10-2000 |
DR Martyn | 60.73 | 116* | 191 | Aus | NZ | Auckland | 03-03-2000 |
RA Smith | 60.29 | 167* | 5/277 | Eng | Aus | Edgbaston | 21-05-1993 |
DL Houghton | 59.41 | 142 | 239 | Zim | NZ | Hyderabad (Ind) | 10-10-1987 |
Saeed Anwar | 59.33 | 194 | 5/327 | Pak | Ind | Chennai | 21-05-1997 |
DI Gower | 59.18 | 158 | 6/267 | Eng | NZ | Brisbane | 15-01-1983 |
SC Ganguly | 58.62 | 153* | 5/261 | Ind | NZ | Gwalior | 11-11-1999 |
G Kirsten | 58.57 | 188* | 2/321 | SA | UAE | Rawalpindi CS | 16-02-1996 |
HH Gibbs | 58.42 | 59* | 9/101 | SA | Pak | Sharjah | 28-03-2000 |
RT Ponting | 57.75 | 123 | 5/213 | Aus | SL | Melbourne | 09-01-1996 |
ME Trescothick | 57.08 | 137 | 240 | Eng | Pak | Lord’s | 12-06-2001 |
DL Haynes | 55.98 | 145* | 5/259 | WI | NZ | Berbice | 14-04-1985 |
GS Chappell | 55.67 | 108 | 194 | Aus | NZ | Auckland | 13-02-1982 |
AJ Lamb | 55.48 | 81 | 146 | Eng | Pak | Melbourne | 02-03-1985 |
RL Powell | 55.47 | 76 | 137 | WI | Ind | Toronto | 14-09-1999 |
GM Turner | 55.34 | 171* | 5/309 | NZ | EA | Edgbaston | 07-06-1975 |
- The 170 run-partnership between Trescothick and Owais Shah was thehighest for England for any wicket against Pakistan. The partnershipsurpassed the 147 run-partnership between Mike Atherton and RobinSmith for the first wicket at Karachi on 03-03-1996. This alsoeclipsed the previous best for the fourth wicket for England againstPakistan which was the 109 between Graham Gooch and David Capel atKarachi on 20-11-1987.
- The Trescothick-Owais partnership was also the highest for England forthe fourth wicket against all countries beating the unbeaten 154 runpartnership between Neil Fairbrother and Graeme Hick against Sri Lankaat Adelaide on 23-01-1999.
- The victory margin of 2 runs was Pakistan’s narrowest against Englandin all ODIs. It had beaten England by three runs at this same groundon 1992. It was the fifth occasion that England was losing a match by2 runs. However England’s narrowest defeat still remains by one run bySouth Africa at Cape Town on 26-01-2000.
- Pakistan was registering victory off the last ball of the match whiledefending a target. It was the fifth such occasion for Pakistan. Theother occasions being : v New Zealand at Faisalabad on 23-11-1984,vAustralia at Sydney on 20-02-1990, v West Indies at Sharjah on21-10-1991 and v India at Sharjah on 23-10-1991.
- Marcus Trescothick was winning his second Man of the Match award. Hisonly other award had come against West Indies at Chester-le-Street on15-07-2000