Yuvraj Singh dives to stop the ball during practice at Kingsmead in Durban on Tuesday, the eve of India’s clash with England. (AFP)

OVERALL

Played 47: England won 23, India won 22, Abandoned 2.

l Matches in South Africa — First meeting.

l In World Cup — Played 5: England won 3, India won 2.

F June 7, 1975 at Lord’s: England 334/4 in 60 overs (Dennis Amiss 137, Keith Fletcher 68, Abid Ali 2/58); India 132/3 in 60 overs (Sunil Gavaskar 36 not out, Gundappa Viswanath 37). England won by 202 runs. Man of the Match: Amiss.

F June 22,1983 at Manchester: England 213 in 60 overs (Graeme Fowler 33, Chris Tavare 32, Kapil Dev 3/35, Mohinder Amarnath 2/27); India 217/4 in 54.4 overs (Mohinder Amarnath 46, Yashpal Sharma 61, Sandeep Patil 51 not out, Ian Botham 1/40).India won by 6 wickets. Man of the Match: Amarnath.

F November 5,1987 at Bombay: England 254/6 in 50 overs (Graham Gooch 115, Mike Gatting 56, Alan Lamb 32, Maninder Singh 3/54,Kapil Dev 2/38); India 219 in 45.3 overs (Krish Srikkanth 31, Mohammed Azharuddin 64, Kapil 30,Eddie Hemmings 4/52, Neal Foster 3/47). England won by 35 runs. Man of the Match: Gooch.

F February 22,1992 at Perth: England 236/9 in 50 overs (Gooch 51, Robin Smith 91, Manoj Prabhakar 2/34, Kapil 2/38); India 227 in 49.2 overs (Ravi Shastri 57, Srikkanth 39, Sachin Tendulkar 35, Dermott Reeve 3/38, Botham 2/27). England won by 9 runs. Man of the Match: Botham.

F May 29,1999 at Birmingham: India 232/8 in 50 overs (Sourav Ganguly 40, Rahul Dravid 53, Ajay Jadeja 39, Mark Ealham 2/28); England 169 in 45.2 overs (Nasser Hussain 33, Graham Thorpe 36, Ganguly 3/27, Jawagal Srinath 2/25, Anil Kumble 2/30). India won by 63 runs. Man of the Match: Sourav.

HIGHEST TOTALS

l England: 334/4 in 60 overs (Lord’s, June 7, 1975)

l India: 326/8 in overs (Lord’s, July 13, 2002)

LOWEST TOTALS

l England: 149 in 41.4 overs (Sydney, February 26, 1985)

l India: 158 in 40.2 overs (Leeds, May 25, 1996)

HIGHEST INDIVIDUAL SCORES

l England: 137 by Amiss (Lord’s, June 7, 1975) (out of twelve hundreds scored by English batsmen against India, Robin Smith and Marcus Trescothick have scored two each while Amiss, Alistair Brown, Alec Stewart, Mike Gatting, Gooch, Nasser Hussain, Graeme Hick and Nick Knight have scored one each).

l India: 134 not out Navjyot Sidhu (Gwalior, March 4, 1993) (out of the eight hundreds by Indian batsmen against England, one each has been scored by Sidhu, Virender Sehwag, Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Ravi Shastri, Chetan Sharma and Vinod Kambli).

BEST BOWLING

l England: 5/26 Ronnie Irani (The Oval, July 9,2002) (Of the two other five wicket hauls one each has been achieved by Paul Jarvis and Ashley Giles)

l India: 5/41 Srinath (Bangalore, February 26,1993) (Harbhajan Singh has taken the other five-wicket haul for India).