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The nine best runs chases

When India scored 302 to defeat South Africa at Cochin the other day, it was the second such occasion the team, notoriously bad chasers, has in fact gone past 300 to win a game.

Sri Lanka and India are in fact the only teams to have performed the feat twice, while Australia, which holds the world record for the highest successful chase, has done it once.

Equally interestingly, India has never found itself at the receiving end of this equation - in other words, if you scan the list of the best 9 run-chases in ODI history, India with its ordinary bowling line-up does not figure in the loser's column even once - whereas Pakistan, the team rated to possess one of the best bowling attacks in the world, have the dubious honour of being losers of the first, and second, highest chases of all time.

Ironic results, wouldn't you say?

Here is the table:

Results of victories batting second, chasing a large target.

Won by	Team	Total	Loser	Total	Date	Venue
6	Aus	316-4	Pak	315-8	10/11/1998	Lahore (Gd.)
3	Ind	316-7	Pak	314-5	18/01/1998	Dhaka
3	SL	313-7	Zim	312-4	23/02/1992	New Plymouth
1	SL	303-9	Eng	302-3	23/01/1999	Adelaide
3	Ind	302-7	SA	301-3	9/03/2000	Cochin
4	NZ	297-6	Eng	296-5	29/01/1983	Adelaide
4	Pak	300-6	SL	295-7	7/04/1998	Kimberley
4	NZ	298-6	Eng	295-6	23/05/1990	Headingley
5	SA	297-5	WI	293-8	3/11/1997	Lahore (Gd.)