Stats Analysis

Smashing debuts, quick partnerships, and Anderson's feat

Stats highlights from an action-packed opening day at Headingley

S Rajesh
S Rajesh
29-May-2015
Luke Ronchi went to fifty in just 37 balls, England v New Zealand, 2nd Investec Test, Headingley, 1st day, May 29, 2015

Luke Ronchi's 70-ball 88 is the second-quickest 50-plus score on Test debut  •  Getty Images

401 Test wickets for James Anderson, which makes him the 12th bowler, and the eighth fast bowler, to make the club. He is already England's leading wicket-taker, 18 ahead of Ian Botham's 383.
84 Tom Latham's score, which is his seventh 50-plus score in 20 innings in Test cricket, and his fourth between 73 and 84.
125.7 Luke Ronchi's strike rate on his debut innings of 88, which came off 70 balls. It's the second-highest for a 50-plus score by a debutant in Test cricket (among games where balls-faced data is available). The only quicker debut score of 50 or more was by the player who replaced him at the crease today: Tim Southee made an unbeaten 77 off 40 against England at Napier in 2008, at a strike rate of 192.50. Had he scored 12 more runs, the 34-year-old Ronchi would have become the second-oldest centurion on Test debut.
4.96 The run rate during the 120-run stand between Latham and Ronchi, which is the third-best for New Zealand in any century partnership against England. Ronchi made 88 of those runs, while Latham contributed 26.
0 The partnership runs for New Zealand's second wicket in the series so far. In three innings, the first and second wickets have fallen at the same scores - 148 and 0 at Lord's, and 2 in the first innings at Headingley.
43 Number of Test innings Kane Williamson had gone without scoring a duck, before today. In his first 30 innings in Tests, he had five ducks.
25 The number of times Ross Taylor has been dismissed lbw in his Test career. Among New Zealand batsmen, only Brendon McCullum (30) and Stephen Fleming (28) have been out in that manner more often.
82.20 New Zealand's average sixth-wicket partnership in Tests since the beginning of 2014, easily the best among all teams during this period. In 21 partnerships, they have five century, and five half-century stands.

S Rajesh is stats editor of ESPNcricinfo. @rajeshstats