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Youngest NZ opener to score ton in 35 years

Stats highlights from the third day of the first Test between Pakistan and New Zealand in Abu Dhabi

Bishen Jeswant
Bishen Jeswant
11-Nov-2014
Ross Taylor made a six-ball duck, the most balls he has played for a duck  •  Associated Press

Ross Taylor made a six-ball duck, the most balls he has played for a duck  •  Associated Press

4 Number of 50-plus scores by New Zealand openers in 2014. All four of these have been by Tom Latham. New Zealand have tried four different opening combinations in 2014; no other team has more.
0 Number of 50-plus opening stands for New Zealand in Tests in 2014. India and Zimbabwe are the other teams that also have none. New Zealand's openers posted 33 runs in their first innings, which was their first 23-plus opening stand in 12 innings. The last time they posted more, was also 33.
2 Number of father-son pairs from New Zealand who had scored Test hundreds before Tom Latham today. The two previous pairs are Richard & Walter Hadlee, and Hamish & Ken Rutherford. The latest additions to this list are Tom and Rod Latham.
8 Number of instances when Pakistan have batted first and taken a 300-plus first-innings lead. Two of the eight instances have come in their last two Tests, against Australia and now New Zealand, both in Abu Dhabi.
6 Number of balls played by Ross Taylor to score zero. He has never before played more than two balls for a Test duck. Geoff Allott holds the record with a 77-ball duck against South Africa in 1999.
103 Runs scored by Tom Latham in New Zealand's first innings. He is the third youngest New Zealand opener (22 years and 221 days) to have made a Test century, and the youngest in the last 35 years.
3 Runs scored by Kane Williamson today. He has five single-digit scores in his last 19 Test innings, with three of those being scores of exactly three.

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