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Most runs in a year for Sarfraz

Stats highlights from the fourth day of the second Test between Pakistan and New Zealand, in Dubai

Bishen Jeswant
Bishen Jeswant
20-Nov-2014
Brendon McCullum dismissed Sarfraz Ahmed for his first Test wicket, Pakistan v New Zealand, 2nd Test, Dubai, 4th day, November 20, 2014

Brendon McCullum picked up his first Test wicket in his 89th Test  •  AFP

3 Number of Test centuries for Sarfraz Ahmed in 2014. The only wicketkeeper to have scored more hundreds in a calendar year is AB de Villiers - four in 2013.
667 Runs scored by Sarfraz in 2014, from eights Tests, at an average of 74.11. This is the most runs scored by a Pakistan keeper in a calendar year. The next four spots are occupied by Kamran Akmal.
4 Number of wicketkeepers who have made 500-plus Test runs in a calendar year at an average of 70 or more; Zimbabwe's Andy Flower has done this twice.
1 Number of Pakistan players who have been involved in two tenth-wicket partnerships of 75 runs or more - Rahat Ali is the only one. He added 81 with Sarfraz for the tenth wicket during Pakistan's first innings, to take them just ten runs shy of New Zealand's score of 403.
89 Brendon McCullum's first Test wicket came in his 89th Test, second only to Alastair Cook's 105-Test wait, when he dismissed Ishant Sharma at Trent Bridge in July 2014. McCullum took a catch off his own bowling to dismiss Sarfraz for 112.
18 Hundreds scored by Pakistan's batsmen in 2014. Batsmen from no other team have scored more than 12 hundreds this year. The only year where Pakistan scored more hundreds was 2006, when their batsmen made 20 hundreds.
77 Runs scored by Ross Taylor in New Zealand's second innings, his highest score this year. Prior to this Test, Taylor had scored 239 runs from ten innings in 2014, at an average of 26.6, with just one fifty.

Bishen Jeswant is a stats sub editor at ESPNCricinfo. @bishen_jeswant