Jos Buttler, Adil Rashid smash records in England vs New Zealand 1st ODI
Jos Buttler, Adil Rashid smash records in England vs New Zealand 1st ODI
England were 202 for 6 after 30 overs in the first One-Day International (ODI) against New Zealand at Edgbaston when Adil Rashid walked out to join Jos Buttler. The pair set off cautiously before adding whopping 56 in the Batting Powerplay. They carried on with the onslaught, adding 177 from a mere 105 balls as England finished off at a record 408 for nine.
In the process they set a new world record for the seventh wicket stand, going past 130 added by Andy Flower and Heath Streak against England at Harare, 2001-02. Zimbabwe had been reduced to 127 for 6 before Flower and Streak took them to 257.
Highest seventh-wicket stands in ODIs:
| Stand | Batsmen | Against | Venue | Year |
| 177 | Jos Buttler, Adil Rashid | New Zealand | Edgbaston | 2015 |
| 130 | Andy Flower, Heath Streak | England | Harare | 2001 |
| 126* | Mahela Jayawardene, Upul Chandana | India | Dambulla | 2005 |
| 125* | MS Dhoni, Ravichandran Ashwin | Pakistan | Chepauk | 2012 |
| 124 | Mohammad Yousuf, Rashid Latif | Australia | Cardiff | 2001 |
Buttler and Rashid broke quite a few seventh-wicket stand records: the previous best for England was 110 between Paul Collingwood and Craig White, against Sri Lanka at WACA in 2002-03; the previous best against New Zealand was 110 between Haris Sohail and Shahid Afridi at Abu Dhabi earlier this year; the previous best on English soil was 124 between Mohammad Yousuf and Rashid Latif (mentioned in the table above).