Stats: Manish Pandey completes 1000 List A runs for India A

India ‘A’ captain Manish Pandey led his side to victory against South Africa ‘A’ in their last league match of the ongoing Triangular series at Pretoria which also includes Afghanistan ‘A’ as the third team. Manish remained unbeaten on 93 during his team’s chase of 267 to guide them to a 1-wicket win. In this process, he became only the third player to complete 1000 runs in List A cricket while playing for India ‘A’.

Excluding the domestic tournaments; Challenger Trophy and Deodhar Trophy which include a team named India A, Pandey has aggregated a total of 1064 runs in the 50-over professional cricket while playing for India’s A side. During this innings, Pandey went past Shikhar Dhawan’s tally of 1004 runs and stands only behind Gautam Gambhir.

Most runs for India ‘A’ in the List A cricket:

The half century in the game was 6th fifty for Pandey in the India ‘A’ jersey and he also has 3 centuries for the A side in the List A format. Only Gambhir (11) has more fifty-plus scores in the format while representing India A. Unmukt Chand scored as many as 9 fifty-plus scores for India A. Opener Sanju Samson, who scored 68 in this game, recorded his 7th fifty-plus score for India A in the List A format.

Only 6 players other than Pandey and Samson have scored 7 or more fifty-plus scores in the 50-over games while playing for India A. This match was the 28th and 29th List A game respectively for Pandey and Samson while representing India ‘A’ while only Dhawal Kulkarni (31) has represented India ‘A’ in more List A games than the two right-handed batsmen.

Most fifty-plus scores for India ‘A’ in the List A cricket:

(Note: Stats include the India ‘A’ matches where they played against an International ‘A’ and touring teams)

(Stats as on August 3, 2017)