Note: As on the eve of the 2005-06 one-day series between India and Pakistan.

* 1 - The number of wickets needed by Shoaib Akhtar to complete a double century of victims in ODIs. He will become the fifth Pakistani after Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Saqlain Mushtaq and Abdul Razzaq to accomplish this feat.

* 1 - The number of innings required by Sachin Tendulkar to complete 350 appearances at the crease in ODIs. He will become the first batsman to do so.

* 3 - The number of sixes needed by Sachin Tendulkar to complete 150 sixes in ODIs. He will become the fifth batsman after Shahid Afridi , Sanath Jayasuriya , Sourav Ganguly and Chris Cairns to accomplish this rare feat * 12 - The number of victims required by off-spinner Harbhajan Singh to reach the 150-wicket mark in ODIs. Incidentally, he went wicketless in the just concluded Test series.

* 19 - The number of runs required by Mohammad Yousuf complete 7000 runs in ODIs. He will become the fifth Pakistani after Inzamam-ul-Haq, Saeed Anwar, Javed Miandad and Salim Malik to do so.

* 86 - The number of runs required by dashing wicket-keeper -batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni to complete a thousand runs in ODIs.

* 235 - The number of runs required by Shahid Afridi to complete 5000 ODI runs.