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- Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Joginder Sharma became the 157th and 158th player to represent India in one-day internationals.
- Sridharan Sriram made a comeback into Indian side after four years. He had last played for India against Zimbabwe at Rajkot on 14-12-2000. Sriram thus missed 116 matches in between his two appearances. He is the sixth Indian player to miss 100 (or more) matches in between two appearances after Sairaj Bahutule (196), Aashish Kapoor (157), Robin Singh (146), Harvinder Singh (110) and Amit Bhandari (108).
- Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar opened the innings together for India after a gap of 26 matches. In fact, it was only the second such occasion in the year 2004.
- Mohammad Kaif's innings of 80 is the highest for India at Chittagong eclipsing Navjot Singh Sidhu's unbeaten 50 against Bangladesh on 27-10-1988.
- The fourth wicket partnership of 128 runs between Rahul Dravid and Kaif is India's best for this wicket against Bangladesh. The pair obliterated the previous record stand of 27 between Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajay Jadeja at Dhaka on 10-01-1998.
- The above partnership is the second highest for any wicket for India against Bangladesh after the 154-run partnership for the second wicket between Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly at Colombo (SSC) on 21-07-2004.
- Dravid and Kaif have now been involved in a century partnership on five occasions -- twice against Pakistan and once each against New Zealand, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh. Interestingly, on all of the five occasions India have won the match.
- Dhoni became the 17th Indian batsman to score a duck in his debut innings. However, he is only the fifth after Roger Binny, Yograj Singh, Lalchand Rajput and Avishkar Salvi to last only one ball while achieving this dubious distinction.
- India (245-8) for the first time batted through the 50 overs against Bangladesh. In their last 11 encounters, India batted second 10 times successfully chasing the victory target. On one occasion when they batted first, India were dismissed for 276 in 49.3 overs.
- Habibul Bashar (65) completed his 1,000 runs in ODIs when his score reached 42. He became the second batsman from Bangladesh to aggregate 1000 or more runs after Khaled Mashud.
- Khaled Mashud's 39-ball half-century is the third fastest fifty by a Bangladesh batsman. Only Mohammad Ashraful (31 balls v Zimbabwe at Harare on 10-03-2004) and Khaled Mahmud (38 balls v Zimbabwe at Dhaka on 25-11-2001) have scored faster fifties for Bangladesh.
- Mashud provided the second instance of a Bangladesh wicketkeeper performing the all-round feat of scoring a fifty and effecting three dismissals in the same match. He had made an unbeaten 54 besides holding three catches against Pakistan at Chittagong on 22-01-2002.
- The 40-run partnership between Mashud and Khaled Mahmud is Bangladesh's best for the eighth wicket against India obliterating the 24-run partnership between Manjural Islam Rana and Khaled Mahmud at Colombo (SSC) on 21-07-2004.
- Kaif won his fourth Man of the match award.
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