What a match!

The first One-Day International between India and Pakistan at Karachi will always rank very high among the most thrilling encounters witnessed in the history of the one-day game.

In fact, it will keep the cricket statisticians busy for the next few days. But two world records were not that difficult to be noticed.

As many as 693 runs for scored for the loss of 15 wickets, which is the highest run-aggregate in a match, beating the previous world record of 664 for the loss of 19 wickets, scored in the match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan in the Singer Cup opener in 1995-96.

Pakistan's score of 344 for eight is the highest ever made by a side batting second, beating Australia's match-winning 330 for four against South Africa in 2001-02.

Highest run-aggregate in a match

Runs-Wkts	Overs	Batted 1st		Batted 2nd		Venue	Date
693-15	100	Ind	349-7	Pak	344-8	Karachi	13 Mar 2004
664-19	99.4	SL	349-9	Pak	315	Singapore Pedang	02 Apr 1996
662-17	99.3	WI	333-7	SL	329	Sharjah	16 Oct 1995
660-19	99.5	Pak	371-9	SL	289	Nairobi Gym	04 Oct 1996
656-10	99.1	SAf	326-3	Aus	330-7	Port Elizabeth	06 Apr 2002
655-19	97	NZ	349-9	Ind	306	Rajkot	05 Nov 1999
652-12	100	SL	398-5	Ken	254-7	Kandy	06 Mar 1996
651-13	99.3	Eng	325-5	Ind	326-8	Lord's	13 Jul 2002
650-15	100	Aus	349-6	NZ	301-9	Christchurch	26 Feb 2000

Top run-chases

Score	Overs	For	Vs	Score	Overs	Venue	Date
344-8	50	Pak	Ind	349-7	50	Karachi	13 Mar 2004
330-7	49.1	Aus	SA	326-3	50	Port Elizabeth	06 Apr 2002
329	49.3	SL	WI	333-7	50	Sharjah	16 Oct 1995
326-8	49.3	Ind	Eng	325-5	50	Lord's	13 Jul 2002
325-5	47.4	Ind	WI	324-4	50	Ahmedabad (GS)	15 Nov 2002
316-7	47.5	Ind	Pak	314-5	48	Dhaka	18 Jan 1998
316-4	48.5	Aus	Pak	315-8	50	Lahore	10 Nov 1998
315	49.4	Pak	SL	349-9	50	Singapore (Pedang)	02 Apr 1996
313-7	49.2	SL	Zim	312-4	50	New Plymouth	23 Feb 1992
313-6	49.3	SL	WI	312-4	50	Bridgetown	08 Jun 2003
310	48.5	Ind	SA	320-7	50	Nagpur	19 Mar 2000
310-6	49.4	SA	WI	304-2	50	Johannesburg	4 Feb 2004