The Hindu : Vettori achieves a double

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Sunday, Oct 12, 2003

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Vettori achieves a double

By Mohandas Menon

** The 67-run partnership between Daniel Vettori and Paul Wiseman equals the best for the 9th wicket at this venue. Mohammad Azharuddin and Rajesh Chauhan were involved in an identical stand against Sri Lanka in February 1994. However, the Vettori-Wiseman stand was the best by a visiting pair at this venue, bettering the 60-run stand between South Africans Fanie deVilliers and Allan Donald in November 1996.

** Vettori (60) became the 35th New Zealander and 388th batsman overall to reach 1000 runs in Tests. Playing in his 47th Test match he now has exactly 1000 runs (avg. 17.24) with six fifties.

** By achieving the above landmark, Vettori also became the fourth Kiwi all-rounder (after Richard Hadlee, John Bracewell and Chris Cairns) and the 41st overall to do the Test double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets. Vettori now has 1000 runs and 145 wickets to his credit.

** Although Sachin Tendulkar aggregated just 15 runs (8+7) in this match, he, during his knock of seven runs in the second innings, became the first Indian batsman to reach 1000 runs against the Kiwis in Tests. Playing in his 15th Test match he now has 1006 runs (avg. 50.30) against this team. For the record, 14 other batsmen have made over 1000 runs against the Kiwis, with Pakistani Javed Miandad making the most runs - 1919 (avg. 79.96) in 18 matches. Rahul Dravid now has 986 runs in 8 matches against the Kiwis.

** Dravid's match aggregate of 295 runs (222+73) was the third best by an Indian in Tests. Only Sunil Gavaskar (124+220=344 v West Indies, at Port of Spain, April 1971) and V.V.S. Laxman (59+281=340 v Australia at Kolkata, March 2001) have made more runs than Dravid in a Test match. Incidentally, Dravid bettered the 293 runs he made against New Zealand (190+103*) at Hamilton in January 1999.

** Saurav Ganguly's five sixes in this match has taken his tally of sixes in Tests to 41, which takes him past the 38 sixes each by Navjot Singh Sidhu and Tendulkar. Now only Kapil Dev with 61 sixes exceeds Ganguly's tally. For the record, Ganguly also has 149 sixes in LOIs, the most by an Indian batsman.

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