Latham, Conway script first-class history and break many NZ records

1 - Tom Latham and Devon Conway became the first opening pair in first-class history to make hundreds in both innings of a match. This is also only the fourth instance of a pair of batters from a team getting hundreds in each innings of a Test. The previous instance was Dhananjaya de Silva and Kamindu Mendis against Bangladesh in Sylhet in 2024. Azhar Ali and Misbah-ul-Haq was only the second such pair, and the first in over 40 years of Tests, when they did this against Australia in Abu Dhabi in 2014. The first such pair was Ian and Greg Chappell who achieved this against New Zealand in Wellington in 1974.

515 - Runs added by Latham and Conway for New Zealand's combined opening stand in the second Test. This is the highest aggregate by an opening pair in a Test match beating the previous best by a 100 runs. Neil McKenzie and Graeme Smith had added 415 in the Chattogram Test in 2008.

10 Batters with a double-hundred and a hundred in the same Test match. Conway became only the 10th batter ever in Tests when he got to his century in the second innings. Conway is the second batter to achieve this in 2025 after Shubman Gill scored 269 and 161 in Edgbaston in July this year.

1 - Number of opening pairs from New Zealand to make two century stands in a Test before Conway and Latham. Rod Latham - Tom's father- had partnered with Mark Greatbatch in two century stands against Zimbabwe in the Bulawayo Test in 1992 for the only other such instance for New Zealand.

0 - Number of pairs before Conway and Latham to add a triple-century stand and a century stand in the same Test. Only three other pairs have managed to add a 250-run stand and a century stand in a Test match before them. Mushtaq Mohammad and Javed Miandad were the first pair to do so, against New Zealand in Karachi in 1976. The other two instances have come fairly recently. Imam-ul-haq and Abhullah Shafique against Australia in Rawalpindi in 2022, and Mushfiqur Rahim and Najmul Hossain Shanto in Galle in 2025.

669* - Runs scored by the first-wicket partnerships in this Test. While the New Zealand opening pair added 515 runs, the West Indies pair has added 154 runs, including an unbeaten 43, so far in the match. This is easily the highest-ever aggregate in a Test match beating the previous highest of 577 runs, which were scored in the Chennai Test of 1956, also involving New Zealand. But on that occasion, New Zealand's opening pair had played second fiddle to the India pair of Vinoo Mankad and Pankaj Roy, who made a then record opening stand of 413 runs.

2 - New Zealand openers with two hundreds in a Test match before Conway and Latham. Glenn Turner was the first to do it when he made 101 and 110* against Australia in Christchurch in 1974. Peter Fulton scored 136 and 110 against England in Auckland in 2013. Geoff Howarth (against England, Auckland, 1978), Andrew Jones (against Sri Lanka, Hamilton, 1991) and Kane Williamson (against South Africa, Mount Maunganui, 2024) are the only other New Zealand batters to score twin hundreds in a Test match at any batting position.

565 - Runs scored by New Zealand openers in this Test - the highest aggregate in a match by openers. While Conway added 327 runs, Latham scored 238 runs. The previous highest was 550 runs between the South Africa's opening pair of Smith and Herschelle Gibbs in the Edgbaston Test in 2003.

327 Runs by Conway in this Test - the third highest by a New Zealand batter in a match. Only Stephen Fleming's 343 runs against Sri Lanka in Colombo 2003 and Martin Crowe's 329 against the same opposition in Wellington in 1991 are higher.

881 Runs scored by New Zealand in this Test - their highest aggregate in a match beating the 874 runs they had scored against India in Auckland in 1990.