The first day of the third and final Test between Pakistan and New Zealand saw a couple of records being broken by the visitors the moment Daniel Vettori took field. Amit Banerjee takes a closer look at the records.
Daniel Vettori created a new record on the morning of the first day of the third Test against Pakistan at Sharjah the moment Misbah-ul-Haq flipped the coin and Brendon McCullum called. Vettori became New Zealand’s most capped Test player, surpassing the record previously held by Stephen Fleming, who had made 111 appearances for the Kiwis. McCullum is third with 90 appearances.
Following is the table representing the cricketers with most appearances for New Zealand:
Player
Span
Matches
Daniel Vettori
1997-Present
112
Stephen Fleming
1994-2008
111
Brendon McCullum
2004-Present
90
Richard Hadlee
1973-1990
86
John Wright
1978-1993
82
Vettori also became the New Zealand cricketer with the second-longest career span, with Bert Sutcliffe taking the pole position in this regard. The following table contains the list of cricketers with the longest career-spans for New Zealand.
Player Name
Debut
Retirement
Career Span
Bert Sutcliffe
March 21, 1947
June 1, 1965
18 years, 72 days
Daniel Vettori
February 6, 1997
–
17 years, 293 days
Richard Hadlee
February 2, 1973
July 10, 1990
17 years, 158 days
John Reid
July 23, 1949
July 8, 1965
15 years, 350 days
John Wright
February 10, 1978
March 12, 1993
15 years, 30 days
New Zealand are currently playing Pakistan in the third and final Test at Sharjah, where Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first. The series is currently 1-0 in Pakistan’s favour after their crushing 248-run win in the first Test at Abu Dhabi which was followed by a tooth-and-nail draw at Dubai.
(Amit Banerjee, a reporter at CricketCountry, takes keen interest in photography, travelling, technology, automobiles, food and, of course, cricket. He can be followed on Twitter via his handle@akb287)
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