This series was drawn 0-0 with both Tests at Karachi being drawn.
For Tests between these teams,
Pakistan lead 25-14 with 23 draws.
In Pakistan, Pakistan lead 13-2 with 8 draws.
In New Zealand, Pakistan lead 10-9 with 14 draws.
On neutral grounds, Pakistan trail 2-3 with 1 draw.
Looking at individual performances:
Batting:
Most runs (750 or more):
Javed Miandad leads, with KS Williamson in second place.
Highest innings scores, (150 or more):
Inzamam-ul-Haq leads with a triple century. Williamson has NZ’s record with 238. In this series his 200* was the highest for NZ in Pakistan, surpassing the previous record of 152 by WK Lees in 1976.
Highest averages (Minimum 20 innings and 30.00):
Miandad leads second-placed Williamson by a large margin. Latham and some other recent players can also be seen here.
Highest strike rates (Minimum 1000 balls faced and 40.00):
Led by McCullum with today’s hero Sarfraz Ahmed close behind. R Taylor and Williamson follow closely.
This two-test series marked an important landmark, as Bangladesh won their first Test against New Zealand in their 16th attempt. The series was drawn 1-1.
Resultsof all Tests between NZ and BD:
Overall: 17 tests: NZ lead 13-1, 3 draws
In NZ: 11 tests: NZ lead 10-1
In BD: 6 tests: NZ lead 3-0 with 3 draws.
Most runs (minimum 350):
Tamim Iqbal leads with 908, followed by Shakib (763) and newly-retired R Taylor (746).
Highest individual scores (Minimum 110):
TWM Latham’s 252 in the second Test is the highest for NZ against BD, surpassing the 202 by SP Fleming at Chattogram in 2004. Their previous best in NZ was 200* by Williamson at Hamilton in 2019. Also note that Shakib had made 217 at Wellington in 2017.
Incidentally Latham is the first player to score 252 in a Test.
While there is not enough data for meaningful batting averages, we have some strike rates:
Highest strike rates (Min 1000 balls faced, all instances):
Not surprisingly, R Taylor has the highest strike rate. Williamson and Shakib are slightly lower.
Bowling:
Most wickets (Minimum 10):
Vettori (51) is followed by the current trio of Wagner, Boult and Southee.
The most 5wi are 5 by Vettori and 3 by Wagner.
The only 10wm is by Vettori.
Best innings bowling (including all 6wi):
Shakib has BD’s best innings figure of 7-36 at Chattogram in 2008. In this series, Ebadot took 6-46 which is BD’s best innings figure in NZ. The previous best for BD in NZ was 5-166 by Rubel Hossain at Hamilton in 2010.
Best match bowling (7wm and above):
Vettori’s 12-170 at Chattogram is the best performance here.
Ebadot’s 7-121 is BD’s best match figure in NZ. The previous record was 5-88 by Mashraf Mortaza at Dunedin in 2008.
There is not enough data for meaningful bowling averages etc, as Vettori is the only one with over 2000 balls bowled.
Fielding:
Most dismissals (Minimum 8):
McCullum (28) and Watling (26) have the most dismissals.
Watling (26) and McCullum (24) have the most catches by a keeper.
Mc Cullum (4) has the most stumpings.
R Taylor (17) and Sinclair (12) have the most dismissals by a fielder.
Most innings dismissals (Minimum 4):
Imrul Kayes has the most catches by a keeper in an innings (5)
During this series Shadman Islam and TWM Latham both took 4 catches as fielders.
Most match dismissals (Minimum 5):
Watling (7) has the most dismissals by a keeper in an innings (all caught). Next is McCullum with 6.
The most catches by a fielder is 6 by Latham in this series. Next are Sinclair and Shadman with 5.
All-round performance:
50+ and 5wi in a match:
Vettori’s 55*, 76 and 9-133 at Chattogram in 2008 is clearly the best. If he had taken one more wicket, he would have become one of the only five players to score 100 runs and take 10 wickets in a test (The others are Davidson, Botham, Imran and Shakib).
India won the 2-Test series 1-0. The summary of all Tests between these teams is
Both sides have considerable home advantage.
The neutral Test at Southampton in 2021 is India’s only neutral Test.
The second Test has a host of records, including the lowest total against India (62) and India’s highest innings margin (372 runs). Both these records were earlier held by South Africa in their series in 2015. These previous records were 79 at Nagpur and 337 runs at Delhi.
Here we concentrate on individual records, starting with Batting:
Dravid has the most centuries (6). He and Tendulkar have 12 scores of 50+
Most runs (750 and above):
Dravid and Tendulkar head this list. R Taylor has the most runs (890) among current players, with Williamson, Pujara and Kohli bunched together after that.
Highest innings (175 and above):
The highest score in recent years is Kohli’s 211 in 2016.
Highest averages (Minimum 20 innings, all instances):
Note that Dravid’s average is much higher that that of the second-placed Dowling.
Kohli and Pujara have the highest averages among current players.
Highest strike rates (Minimum 1000 balls faced, all instances):
Taylor and Kohli have the highest SRs among current players.
Now for individual Bowling records:
Most wickets (25 and above):
R Ashwin with 66 wickets moved just ahead of Sir Richard Hadlee with 65. Next highest among current players is TG Southee (52).
Ashwin has the most 5-fors (6) and 10-fors (3).
Best innings bowling (including all 7wi and above):
AY Patel now has the record, moving ahead of Venkataraghavan’s 8-for in 1965.
Best match bowling (including all 10wm and above):
AY Patel again, who moved ahead of R Ashwin’s 13-140 in 2016.
Bowling averages (Minimum 2000 balls bowled, all instances):
R Ashwin has the best average with 15.43. The next among current players is TG Southee with 24.69.
The best economy rates are 1.52 by RG Nadkarni (who else?) and 1.68 by BS Bedi.
The best strike rates are 35.7 by R Ashwin followed by 46.9 by TG Southee.
We close by looking at statistics for World Cup matches alone, since a fair number of high scoring rates mentioned earlier were in relatively less important or highly one-sided matches. Perhaps this would give a better idea of performance in more important matches. Perhaps the Champions Trophy matches could also be added.
We start with the highest averages in World Cup matches (minimum 20 innings):
de Villiers heads this list although MJ Clarke and IVA Richards are just behind.
Now we look as
Highest strike rates in World Cup matches (minimum 500 balls faced):
Here we have McCullum followed by de Villiers and Kapil.
Then there are links in Cricinfo’s records section for Fastest centuries in ODIs:
That link is constantly updated. This is what it looked like on 26/05/2018:
Note that it took over 17 years to move from Afridi’s 37-ball effort in 1996 to Anderson’s improvement to 36 balls in 2014. But de Villiers lowered the bar to 31 balls a year later.
For World Cup matches alone, the best efforts are 50 balls by KJ O’Brien in 2011, 51 by GJ Maxwell in 2015 and de Villiers again with 52 balls in 2015.
Similarly there is a link for the fastest 50. Like in the table above, it refers to the first 50 runs in the innings although the number of balls for the second or later 50 runs may be quite different.
The record had been stuck at Jayasuriya’s 17 balls since 1996. de Villiers lowered it to 16 balls after almost 19 years. After that Kusal Perera and Guptill also equalled the old 17-ball record.
In World Cup matches, the fastest 50s have been in 18 balls by McCullum (2015), 19 by Mc Cullum again in 2015 and 20 by AD Mathews also in 2015.
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