Martin Guptill’s 237: more records
Martin Guptill’s 237: more records
Martin Guptill’s unbeaten 237 against West Indies in the quarter-final at Wellington smashed many records. Bharath Seervi lists some overlooked records set by Guptill.
Martin Guptill smashed the World Cup double-century of against West Indies at Wellington in the fourth quarter-final match of ICC Cricket World Cup 2015. Guptill reached his century in the 35th over in 111 balls and got to the double-century in 152 balls in the 48th over. He ended unbeaten on 237 off 163 balls with 24 fours and 11 sixes.
He broke many records during his innings. Apart from being the fifth person to score 200 in One-Day Internationals (ODIs), second to do in World Cups, first for New Zealand let’s list the other records he went past. READ: Martin Guptill’s 200 and related records
Highest individual score in World Cup knockout matches
Martin Guptill went past Adam Gilchrist who scored 149 in the final of 2007 World Cup and scored the first 150+ score in World Cup knockout matches.
| Player | Runs | 4s | 6s | SR | For | Opposition | Ground | Start Date |
| Martin Guptill | 237* | 24 | 11 | 145.4 | New Zealand | West Indies | Wellington | 21-Mar-15 |
| Adam Gilchrist | 149 | 13 | 8 | 143.3 | Australia | Sri Lanka | Kensington Oval | 28-Apr-07 |
| Ricky Ponting | 140* | 4 | 8 | 115.7 | Australia | India | New Wanderers | 23-Mar-03 |
| Viv Richards | 138* | 11 | 3 | 87.9 | West Indies | England | Lord’s | 23-Jun-79 |
| Rohit Sharma | 137 | 14 | 3 | 108.7 | India | Bangladesh | MCG | 19-Mar-15 |
Guptill became only the second batsman from New Zealand to score a century in knockout stage of World Cups. The first was Chris Harris, who had scored 130 against Australia at Chennai in the quarter-final of 1996 World Cup. New Zealand had lost that match.
Scoring 60 % of team total runs in a completed inning in World Cup
Martin Guptill scored 237 out of his team’s 393 which are 60.30% of his New Zealand’s total. It is only the third time in World Cups that a player scored more than 60% of his team’s total in a completed inning (all out or batted all overs).
| % runs | Batsman | Runs | Team total | Inns | For | Against | Venue | Date | Result |
| 65.78 | Kapil Dev | 175* | 266/8 | 1 | India | Zimbabwe | Tunbridge Wells | 18-Jun-83 | Won |
| 62.66 | Scott Styris | 141 | 225 | 2 | New Zealand | Sri Lanka | Bloemfontein | 10-Feb-03 | Lost |
| 60.3 | Martin Guptill | 237* | 393/6 | 1 | New Zealand | West Indies | Wellington | 21-Mar-15 | Won |
Opener remaining not out at the end of the first inning in World Cups
| Batsman | Runs | Fours | Sixes | S/R | For | Opposition | Ground | Date | Result |
| Glenn Turner | 171* | 16 | 2 | 85.1 | New Zealand | East Africa | Birmingham | 7-Jun-75 | Won |
| Geoff Marsh | 126* | 12 | 3 | 84.6 | Australia | New Zealand | Chandigarh | 27-Oct-87 | Won |
| Andy Flower | 115* | 8 | 1 | 75.7 | Zimbabwe | Sri Lanka | New Plymouth | 23-Feb-92 | Lost |
| Rameez Raja | 102* | 4 | 0 | 64.6 | Pakistan | West Indies | Melbourne | 23-Feb-92 | Lost |
| Gary Kirsten | 188* | 13 | 4 | 118.2 | South Africa | U.A.E. | Rawalpindi | 16-Feb-96 | Won |
| Ridley Jacobs | 49* | 3 | 0 | 34.5 | West Indies | Australia | Manchester | 30-May-99 | Lost |
| Craig Wishart | 172* | 18 | 3 | 113.9 | Zimbabwe | Namibia | Harare | 10-Feb-03 | Won |
| Marvan Atapattu | 103* | 7 | 0 | 81.1 | Sri Lanka | Zimbabwe | East London | 15-Mar-03 | Won |
| Jeremy Bray | 115* | 10 | 2 | 83.9 | Ireland | Zimbabwe | Kingston | 15-Mar-07 | Tied |
| Tillakaratne Dilshan | 161* | 22 | 0 | 110.3 | Sri Lanka | Bangladesh | Melbourne | 26-Feb-15 | Won |
| Martin Guptill | 237* | 24 | 11 | 145.4 | New Zealand | West Indies | Wellington | 21-Mar-15 | Won |
– Ridley Jacobs is the only batsman to carry his bat in the history of World Cup Cricket.
– Andy Flower did it on his ODI debut.
– The efforts of Flower, Rameez Raja and Jacobs came in losing causes.
Highest individual score for New Zealand in World Cup
Glenn Turner scored 171 not out in New Zealand’s very first match in the World Cup and it took 76 further matches in 11 editions of the World Cup to beat it.
| Player | Runs | Fours | Sixes | S/R | Opposition | Ground | Start Date |
| Martin Guptill | 237* | 24 | 11 | 145.39 | West Indies | Wellington | 21-Mar-15 |
| Glenn Turner | 171* | 16 | 2 | 85.07 | East Africa | Edgbaston | 7-Jun-75 |
| Scott Styris | 141 | 3 | 6 | 112.8 | Sri Lanka | Bloemfontein | 10-Feb-03 |
| Stephen Fleming | 134* | 21 | 0 | 101.51 | South Africa | New Wanderers | 16-Feb-03 |
| Ross Taylor | 131* | 8 | 7 | 105.64 | Pakistan | Pallekele | 8-Mar-11 |
Footnote Trivia:
Guptill now has the top two highest individual score for New Zealand in ODIs. He is the only one to have this record at present from the Test teams.
(Bharath Seervi is a cricket statistician who is obsessed with digging numbers, facts and records related to the game. An active member of Society of Cricket Statisticians of India, he blogs at www.cricketseervistats.blogspot.com. He can be followed on Twitter at www.twitter.com/SeerviBharath and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SeerviCricket)