As ODI cricket made its first appearance of the new year, a slew of landmarks were achieved during New Zealand’s innings against Sri Lanka at Bay Oval on Thursday.
Here is a list of the statistical milestones achieved so far in this ODI:
– In his 157th innings, Guptill hit his 152nd six to move past former allrounder Cairns who hit 151 in 192 ODI innings for the Blackcaps. This milestone came in the same match in which the 32-year-old became the fifth New Zealand batsman to reach 6,000 runs in ODIs.
MOST SIXES FOR NEW ZEALAND IN ODIS:
Player
M
I
Span
6s
B McCullum
260
228
2002-2016
200
M Guptill
160
157
2009-2019
153
C Cairns
214
192
1991-2006
151
– In his comeback match for the first time since March, Guptill – in his 160th ODI – followed Stephen Fleming (8007), Ross Taylor (7433), Nathan Astle (7090) and Brendon McCullum (6083) to the milestone of 6,000 ODI runs.
– In terms of innings, it took Guptill 157 to get to 6,000 runs which is faster than team-mate Taylor (166) needed. This makes the 32-year-old the joint eighth-fastest to the landmark alongside Dean Jones.
MOST RUNS FOR NEW ZEALAND IN ODIS:
Player
M
I
NO
Runs
HS
Avg
SR
100
50
S Fleming
279
268
21
8007
134*
32.41
71.40
8
49
R Taylor
208
192
34
7433
181*
47.04
82.57
19
43
N Astle
223
217
14
7090
145*
34.92
72.64
16
41
M Guptill
160
157
17
6114
237*
43.67
86.63
14
34
B McCullum
260
228
28
6083
166
30.41
96.37
5
32
– The allrounder Jimmy Neesham returned to international cricket for the first time in nearly 17 months, and on comeback blasted six sixes to finish not out 47 off 13 balls. In terms of strike-rate in an innings, Neesham’s 361.53 is the second best for the Blackcaps after James Franklin’s 31* off eight balls against Canada during the 2011 World Cup, for a strike-rate of 387.50.
– However, in terms of ODI innings spanning at least ten deliveries, Neesham’s strike-rate of 361.53 is the highest ever recorded.
– Neesham thus joined AB de Villiers for the third most numbers of runs scored in an ODI, behind Herschelle Gibbs’ 36 against the Netherlands in the 2007 World Cup and Perera’s 35 against South Africa at Pallekele in 2013.
– New Zealand’s total of 371/7 in 50 overs slots in as their seventh best, one run behind the 372/6 they scored against Zimbabwe in 2012.
– This is the biggest total at Bay Oval, surpassing by some distance the 294/5 scored by New Zealand against Sri Lanka in January 2016.
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