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Bishan Singh Bedi to DDCA: Remove my name from Kotla stand, cancel my membership

23/12/2020 hrg

Email to Association President refers to nepotism during the reign of Arun Jaitley, whose statue is being installed at the Kotla. Former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi has asked the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) to remove his name from the spectators’ stand at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium, his home ground in domestic cricket, while also renouncing his membership with the association. In an email to the DDCA, Bedi said his decision was in response to news that the association had decided to erect a statue of Arun Jaitley, the former president of the association, at the stadium, which was renamed after him following his death last year.

Bedi, after whom the stand at the venue was named in 2017, referred to what he called the “unsavoury past” and nepotism of Jaitley’s 14-year reign as DDCA president as the reason for his decision.

Here’s the full text of the email, written by Bedi to Rohan Jaitley, Arun Jaitley’s son and the new president of the DDCA, on December 22.

Dear Sir,

I write this letter with a heavy heart & deep sense of embarrassment.

I’m old enough to know that one doesn’t talk ill of the dead. And I hope you are also old enough to be in the know of my personal relationship with Late Arun Jaitley was never quite on the same page. Let’s say we weren’t really cricketing buddies when he was the President of DDCA. My reservations about the choice of people he hand picked to run the day to day affairs of DDCA is well known. I remember walking out from a meeting at his residence whence he was unable to throw out a rowdy element using terribly foul language. I think I was too head strong..too Old school..& too proud an Indian cricketer to be co-opted into the corrupt darbar of sycophants Arun Jaitley mustered at the Kotla during his stewardship.

It pains me no end to point out the far from flattering facts about DDCA’s unsavoury past, but trust me it has a context. I was not raised to carry on the fight to the next generation. But I was also taught that if I firmly believe in taking a stand I must stick with it. But sadly this is how it has unfolded. Keep in mind, these are the ills of nepotism-you get blamed for decisions you weren’t part of and you can’t even give the excuse of absence.

As I observe now even in your leadership DDCA’s court culture of fawning obeisance continues. After the Feroze Shah Kotla was named hurriedly & most undeservingly after Late Arun Jaitley my reaction then was maybe somehow good sense might prevail to keep Kotla sacrosanct. How wrong I was. Now I gather a statue of Late Arun Jaitley is going to be installed at the Kotla. I’m not at all enamoured with the thought of a statue of Arun Jaitley coming up at Kotla.

I pride myself as a man of immense tolerance & patience..but all that I’m afraid is running out. DDCA has truly tested me & forced me to take this drastic action.

So, Mr President I request you to remove my name from the stand named after me with immediate effect. Also, I hereby renounce my DDCA membership. I’ve taken this decision with sufficient deliberations. I’m not prone to disregard the honour that was bestowed upon me. My gratitude to Justice Sen & the Committee of M/s Dr ND Puri..Dr Ravi Chaturvedi..Vijay Lokapally..& Neeru Bhatia..all people of social & professional eminence..who extended the warm gesture to Mohinder Amarnath & myself..will never fade. But as we all know with honour comes responsibility. They feted me for the total respect & integrity with which I played the game. And now I’m returning the honour just to assure them all that four decades after my retirement, I still retain those values.

A mere google search would have helped to know that Late Arun Jaitley’s tenure at DDCA was riddled with corruption. You being a lawyer should also know the cases of massive misappropriation of funds are still pending in courts.

Late Arun Jaitley I’m told was an able politician. So its the Parliament & not a cricket stadium which needs to remember him for posterity. He might have been a good cricket fan too, but his dillance with cricket administration was dubious & left much to desired. This is not a rhetorical assessment but a factual appraisal of his time at DDCA. Take my word, failures don’t need to be celebrated with plaques & busts. They need to be forgotten.

Mr President if ever you get to travel to the cricket stadiums around the world you will find how aesthetically challenged Kotla is and how it lacks the grandeur of a Test Centre. You need to be educated that sports administrators don’t need to be self serving. People who surround you presently will never inform you that it’s WG Grace at Lord’s..Sir Jack Hobbs at the Oval..Sir Donald Bradman at the SCG…Sir Garfield Sobers at Barbados & Shane Warne of recent vintage at the MCG..who adorn their cricket stadia with the Spirit of Cricket never out of place..so when the kids walk into these stadiums these majestic statues/busts enhance & enliven the inspiring stories of these past heroes that their elders tell them. Sporting arenas need sporting role models. The place of the administrators is in their glass cabins.

Since DDCA doesn’t understand this Universal cricket culture, I need to walk out of it. I can’t be part of a stadium which has got its priorities so grossly wrong & where administrators get precedence over the cricketers. Please bring down my name from the stand with immediate effect. You needn’t worry about me or my legacy. God Almighty has been very kind to me to keep me alive with my cricketing convictions. I don’t wish my strength of character to be maligned by my silence or association to this unsporting act.

Thankfully…Bshan Bedi.

Shamya Dasgupta is senior assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo

Captains scoring 250 plus runs in a test innings

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KC Williamson of New Zealand scored 251 against West Indies at Hamilton in Dec 2020 to provide the 20th occasion of a captain scoring 250 plus runs in a test innings. All such occasions are tabulated below. The list is in the descending order of the runs scored by captains.

No	Player	Runs	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	BC Lara	400*	1	Win	Eng	St John’s	10 Apr 2004
2	M Jayawardene	374	2	Srl	SAF	Col-SSC	27 Jul 2006
3	MA Taylor	334*	1	Aus	Pak	Peshawar	15 Oct 1998
4	GA Gooch	333	1	Eng	Ind	Lord’s	26 Jul 1990
5	MJ Clarke	329*	2	Aus	Ind	Sydney	03 Jan 2012
6	Younis Khan	313	2	Pak	Srl	Karachi	21 Feb 2009
7	RB Simpson	311	1	Aus	Eng	Manchester	23 Jul 1964
8	BB McCullum	302	3	NZl	Ind	Wellington	14 Feb 2014
9	MD Crowe	299	3	NZl	Srl	Wellington	31 Jan 1991
10	PBH May	285*	3	Eng	Win	Birmingham	30 May 1957
11	GC Smith	277	1	SAF	Eng	Birmingham	24 Jul 2003
12	SP Fleming	274*	1	NZl	Srl	Col-PSS	25 Apr 2003
13	DG Bradman	270	3	Aus	Eng	Melbourne	01 Jan 1937
14	AN Cook	263	2	Eng	Pak	Abu Dhabi	13 Oct 2015
15	SP Fleming	262	1	NZl	SAF	Cape Town	27 Apr 2006
16	MJ Clarke	259*	2	Aus	SAF	Brisbane	09 Nov 2012
17	GC Smith	259	2	SAF	Eng	Lord’s	31 Jul 2003
18	Wasim Akram	257*	2	Pak	Zim	Sheikhupura	17 Oct 1996
19	V Kohli	254*	1	Ind	SAF	Pune	10 Oct 2019
20	KS Williamson	251	1	NZl	Win	Hamilton	03 Dec 2020

KC Williamson of New Zealand scored 251 against West Indies at Hamilton in Dec 2020 to provide the fifth occasion of a New Zealand captain scoring 250 plus runs in a test innings. All such occasions are tabulated below. The list is in the descending order of the runs scored by captains.

No	Player	Runs	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	BB McCullum	302	3	NZl	Ind	Wellington	14 Feb 2014
2	MD Crowe	299	3	NZl	Srl	Wellington	31 Jan 1991
3	SP Fleming	274*	1	NZl	Srl	Col-PSS	25 Apr 2003
4	SP Fleming	262	1	NZl	SAF	Cape Town	27 Apr 2006
5	KS Williamson	251	1	NZl	Win	Hamilton	03 Dec 2020

KC Williamson of New Zealand scored 251 against West Indies at Hamilton in Dec 2020 to provide the second occasion of a captain scoring 250 plus runs in a test innings against West Indies. Both such occasions are tabulated below. The list is in the descending order of the runs scored by captains.

No	Player	Runs	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	PBH May	285*	3	Eng	Win	Birmingham	30 May 1957
2	KS Williamson	251	1	NZl	Win	Hamilton	03 Dec 2020

GC Smith {02}, MJ Clarke {02} and SP Fleming {02} are the three captains who have scored 250 plus runs in a test innings on two occasions.

No	Player	Runs	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	GC Smith	277	1	SAF	Eng	Birmingham	24 Jul 2003
2	GC Smith	259	2	SAF	Eng	Lord’s	31 Jul 2003

1	MJ Clarke	329*	2	Aus	Ind	Sydney	03 Jan 2012
2	MJ Clarke	259*	2	Aus	SAF	Brisbane	09 Nov 2012

1	SP Fleming	274*	1	NZl	Srl	Col-PSS	25 Apr 2003
2	SP Fleming	262	1	NZl	SAF	Cape Town	27 Apr 2006

MJ Clarke of Australia is the only captain in the annals of test cricket to score a triple hundred and 250 plus runs. He scored 359 not out against India at Sydney in Jan 2012 and 259 not out against South Africa in Nov 2012

No	Player	Runs	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	MJ Clarke	329*	2	Aus	Ind	Sydney	03 Jan 2012
2	MJ Clarke	259*	2	Aus	SAF	Brisbane	09 Nov 2012

250 plus runs in a test innings – KS Williamson of New Zealand joins the list

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KC Williamson of New Zealand scored 251 against West Indies at Hamilton in Dec 2020 to provide the 98^th occasion of a batsman scoring 250 plus runs in a test innings. All such occasions are tabulated below. The list is in the descending order of the runs scored by batsmen.

No	Player	Runs	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	BC Lara	400*	1	Win	Eng	St John’s	10 Apr 2004
2	ML Hayden	380	1	Aus	Zim	Perth	09 Oct 2003
3	BC Lara	375	1	Win	Eng	St John’s	16 Apr 1994
4	M Jayawardene	374	2	Srl	SAF	Col-SSC	27 Jul 2006
5	GS Sobers	365*	2	Win	Pak	Kingston	26 Feb 1958
6	L Hutton	364	1	Eng	Aus	The Oval	20 Aug 1938
7	ST Jayasuriya	340	2	Srl	Ind	Col-RPS	02 Aug 1997
8	Hanif Mohammad	337	3	Pak	Win	Bridgetown	17 Jan 1958
9	WR Hammond	336*	2	Eng	NZl	Auckland	31 Mar 1933
10	DA Warner	335*	1	Aus	Pak	Adelaide	29 Nov 2019
11	MA Taylor	334*	1	Aus	Pak	Peshawar	15 Oct 1998
12	DG Bradman	334	1	Aus	Eng	Leeds	11 Jul 1930
13	GA Gooch	333	1	Eng	Ind	Lord’s	26 Jul 1990
14	CH Gayle	333	1	Win	Srl	Galle	15 Nov 2010
15	MJ Clarke	329*	2	Aus	Ind	Sydney	03 Jan 2012
16	Inzamam-ul-Haq	329	1	Pak	NZl	Lahore	01 May 2002
17	A Sandham	325	1	Eng	Win	Kingston	03 Apr 1930
18	V Sehwag	319	2	Ind	SAF	Chennai	26 Mar 2008
19	KC Sangakkara	319	1	Srl	Ban	Chattogram	04 Feb 2014
20	CH Gayle	317	2	Win	SAF	St John’s	29 Apr 2005
21	Younis Khan	313	2	Pak	Srl	Karachi	21 Feb 2009
22	HM Amla	311*	2	SAF	Eng	The Oval	19 Jul 2012
23	RB Simpson	311	1	Aus	Eng	Manchester	23 Jul 1964
24	JH Edrich	310*	1	Eng	NZl	Leeds	08 Jul 1965
25	V Sehwag	309	1	Ind	Pak	Multan	28 Mar 2004
26	RM Cowper	307	2	Aus	Eng	Melbourne	11 Feb 1966
27	DG Bradman	304	2	Aus	Eng	Leeds	20 Jul 1934
28	KK Nair	303*	2	Ind	Eng	Chennai	16 Dec 2016
29	Azhar Ali	302*	1	Pak	Win	Dub-DSC	13 Oct 2016
30	LG Rowe	302	2	Win	Eng	Bridgetown	06 Mar 1974
31	BB McCullum	302	3	NZl	Ind	Wellington	14 Feb 2014
32	DG Bradman	299*	2	Aus	SAF	Adelaide	29 Jan 1932
33	MD Crowe	299	3	NZl	Srl	Wellington	31 Jan 1991
34	AN Cook	294	2	Eng	Ind	Birmingham	10 Aug 2011
35	V Sehwag	293	2	Ind	Srl	Mum-BS	02 Dec 2009
36	IVA Richards	291	1	Win	Eng	The Oval	12 Aug 1976
37	RR Sarwan	291	2	Win	Eng	Bridgetown	26 Feb 2009
38	LRPL Taylor	290	2	NZl	Aus	Perth	13 Nov 2015
39	RE Foster	287	2	Eng	Aus	Sydney	11 Dec 1903
40	KC Sangakkara	287	2	Srl	SAF	Col-SSC	27 Jul 2006
41	PBH May	285*	3	Eng	Win	Birmingham	30 May 1957
42	VVS Laxman	281	3	Ind	Aus	Kolkata	11 Mar 2001
43	Javed Miandad	280*	1	Pak	Ind	Hyd-Pak	14 Jan 1983
44	AB de Villiers	278*	1	SAF	Pak	Abu Dhabi	20 Nov 2010
45	DCS Compton	278	2	Eng	Pak	Nottingham	01 Jul 1954
46	BC Lara	277	2	Win	Aus	Sydney	02 Jan 1993
47	GC Smith	277	1	SAF	Eng	Birmingham	24 Jul 2003
48	DJ Cullinan	275*	1	SAF	NZl	Auckland	27 Feb 1999
49	G Kirsten	275	3	SAF	Eng	Durban	26 Dec 1999
50	M Jayawardene	275	2	Srl	Ind	Ahmedabad	16 Nov 2009
51	SP Fleming	274*	1	NZl	Srl	Col-PSS	25 Apr 2003
52	RG Pollock	274	1	SAF	Aus	Durban	05 Feb 1970
53	Zaheer Abbas	274	1	Pak	Eng	Birmingham	03 Jun 1971
54	Javed Miandad	271	1	Pak	NZl	Auckland	24 Feb 1989
55	GA Headley	270*	1	Win	Eng	Kingston	14 Mar 1935
56	DG Bradman	270	3	Aus	Eng	Melbourne	01 Jan 1937
57	R Dravid	270	2	Ind	Pak	Rawalpindi	13 Apr 2004
58	KC Sangakkara	270	2	Srl	Zim	Bulawayo	14 May 2004
59	AC Voges	269*	1	Aus	Win	Hobart	10 Dec 2015
60	GN Yallop	268	2	Aus	Pak	Melbourne	26 Dec 1983
61	BA Young	267*	1	NZl	Srl	Dunedin	07 Mar 1997
62	PA de Silva	267	2	Srl	NZl	Wellington	31 Jan 1991
63	Younis Khan	267	1	Pak	Ind	Bengaluru	24 Mar 2005
64	Z Crawley	267	1	Eng	Pak	Southampton	21 Aug 2020
65	WH Ponsford	266	1	Aus	Eng	The Oval	18 Aug 1934
66	DL Houghton	266	1	Zim	Srl	Bulawayo	20 Oct 1994
67	TWM Latham	264*	2	NZl	Srl	Wellington	15 Dec 2018
68	AN Cook	263	2	Eng	Pak	Abu Dhabi	13 Oct 2015
69	DL Amiss	262*	3	Eng	Win	Kingston	16 Feb 1974
70	SP Fleming	262	1	NZl	SAF	Cape Town	27 Apr 2006
71	RR Sarwan	261*	2	Win	Ban	Kingston	04 Jun 2004
72	FMM Worrell	261	2	Win	Eng	Nottingham	20 Jul 1950
73	CC Hunte	260	2	Win	Pak	Kingston	26 Feb 1958
74	Javed Miandad	260	1	Pak	Eng	The Oval	06 Aug 1987
75	MN Samuels	260	2	Win	Ban	Khulna	21 Nov 2012
76	MJ Clarke	259*	2	Aus	SAF	Brisbane	09 Nov 2012
77	GM Turner	259	2	NZl	Win	Georgetown	06 Apr 1972
78	GC Smith	259	2	SAF	Eng	Lord’s	31 Jul 2003
79	TW Graveney	258	1	Eng	Win	Nottingham	04 Jul 1957
80	SM Nurse	258	1	Win	NZl	Christchurch	13 Mar 1969
81	BA Stokes	258	1	Eng	SAF	Cape Town	02 Jan 2016
82	Wasim Akram	257*	2	Pak	Zim	Sheikhupura	17 Oct 1996
83	RT Ponting	257	2	Aus	Ind	Melbourne	26 Dec 2003
84	RB Kanhai	256	1	Win	Ind	Kolkata	31 Dec 1958
85	KF Barrington	256	2	Eng	Aus	Manchester	23 Jul 1964
86	DJ McGlew	255*	1	SAF	NZl	Wellington	06 Mar 1953
87	V Kohli	254*	1	Ind	SAF	Pune	10 Oct 2019
88	DG Bradman	254	2	Aus	Eng	Lord’s	27 Jun 1930
89	V Sehwag	254	2	Ind	Pak	Lahore	13 Jan 2006
90	JE Root	254	1	Eng	Pak	Manchester	22 Jul 2016
91	HM Amla	253*	1	SAF	Ind	Nagpur	06 Feb 2010
92	ST Jayasuriya	253	3	Srl	Pak	Faisalabad	20 Oct 2004
93	DA Warner	253	1	Aus	NZl	Perth	13 Nov 2015
94	WR Hammond	251	2	Eng	Aus	Sydney	14 Dec 1928
95	KS Williamson	251	1	NZl	Win	Hamilton	03 Dec 2020
96	KD Walters	250	1	Aus	NZl	Christchurch	18 Feb 1977
97	SFAF Bacchus	250	2	Win	Ind	Kanpur	2 Feb 1979
98	JL Langer	250	1	Aus	Eng	Melbourne	26 Dec 2002

KC Williamson of New Zealand scored 251 against West Indies at Hamilton in Dec 2020 to provide the ninth occasion of a New Zealand batsman scoring 250 plus runs in a test innings. All such occasions are tabulated below. The list is in the descending order of the runs scored by batsmen.

No	Player	Runs	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	BB McCullum	302	3	NZl	Ind	Wellington	14 Feb 2014
2	MD Crowe	299	3	NZl	Srl	Wellington	31 Jan 1991
3	LRPL Taylor	290	2	NZl	Aus	Perth	13 Nov 2015
4	SP Fleming	274*	1	NZl	Srl	Col-PSS	25 Apr 2003
5	BA Young	267*	1	NZl	Srl	Dunedin	07 Mar 1997
6	TWM Latham	264*	2	NZl	Srl	Wellington	15 Dec 2018
7	SP Fleming	262	1	NZl	SAF	Cape Town	27 Apr 2006
8	GM Turner	259	2	NZl	Win	Georgetown	06 Apr 1972
9	KS Williamson	251	1	NZl	Win	Hamilton	03 Dec 2020

KC Williamson of New Zealand scored 251 against West Indies at Hamilton in Dec 2020 to provide the ninth occasion of a batsman scoring 250 plus runs in a test innings against West Indies. All such occasions are tabulated below. The list is in the descending order of the runs scored by batsmen.

No	Player	Runs	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	Hanif Mohammad	337	3	Pak	Win	Bridgetown	17 Jan 1958
2	A Sandham	325	1	Eng	Win	Kingston	03 Apr 1930
3	Azhar Ali	302*	1	Pak	Win	Dub-DSC	13 Oct 2016
4	PBH May	285*	3	Eng	Win	Birmingham	30 May 1957
5	AC Voges	269*	1	Aus	Win	Hobart	10 Dec 2015
6	DL Amiss	262*	3	Eng	Win	Kingston	16 Feb 1974
7	GM Turner	259	2	NZl	Win	Georgetown	06 Apr 1972
8	TW Graveney	258	1	Eng	Win	Nottingham	04 Jul 1957
9	KS Williamson	251	1	NZl	Win	Hamilton	03 Dec 2020

KC Williamson of New Zealand scored 251 against West Indies at Hamilton in Dec 2020 to provide the second occasion of a New Zealand batsman scoring 250 plus runs in a test innings against West Indies. Both such occasions are tabulated below. The list is in the descending order of the runs scored by batsmen.

No	Player	Runs	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	GM Turner	259	2	NZl	Win	Georgetown	06 Apr 1972
2	KS Williamson	251	1	NZl	Win	Hamilton	03 Dec 2020

DG Bradman {05}, V Sehwag {04}, BC Lara {03], Javed Miandad {03} and KC Sangakkara {03} are the five batsmen in the annals of test cricket who have scored 250 plus runs in a test innings on three or more occasions. The following table list the 250 plus runs scored by these five batsmen.

No	Player	Runs	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	DG Bradman	334	1	Aus	Eng	Leeds	11 Jul 1930
2	DG Bradman	304	2	Aus	Eng	Leeds	20 Jul 1934
3	DG Bradman	299*	2	Aus	SAF	Adelaide	29 Jan 1932
4	DG Bradman	270	3	Aus	Eng	Melbourne	01 Jan 1937
5	DG Bradman	254	2	Aus	Eng	Lord’s	27 Jun 1930

1	V Sehwag	319	2	Ind	SAF	Chennai	26 Mar 2008
2	V Sehwag	309	1	Ind	Pak	Multan	28 Mar 2004
3	V Sehwag	293	2	Ind	Srl	Mum-BS	02 Dec 2009
4	V Sehwag	254	2	Ind	Pak	Lahore	13 Jan 2006

1	BC Lara	400*	1	Win	Eng	St John’s	10 Apr 2004
2	BC Lara	375	1	Win	Eng	St John’s	16 Apr 1994
3	BC Lara	277	2	Win	Aus	Sydney	02 Jan 1993

1	Javed Miandad	280*	1	Pak	Ind	Hyd-Pak	14 Jan 1983
2	Javed Miandad	271	1	Pak	NZl	Auckland	24 Feb 1989
3	Javed Miandad	260	1	Pak	Eng	The Oval	06 Aug 1987

1	KC Sangakkara	319	1	Srl	Ban	Chattogram	04 Feb 2014
2	KC Sangakkara	287	2	Srl	SAF	Col-SSC	27 Jul 2006
3	KC Sangakkara	270	2	Srl	Zim	Bulawayo	14 May 2004

Pakistan wins the Napier T20I by six wickets to post its 97th T20I win

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New Zealand Vs Pakistan at Napier on 22 Dec 20

MJ Guptill became the first batsman in the history of T20Is to aggregate 500 plus runs against Pakistan. He reached the milestone when he was on 10 during the course of his knock of 19 in this game. At the end of this game, his run aggregate against Pakistan read 509 runs.

MJ Guptill’s feat of scoring 509 runs against Pakistan provides the seventh occasion of a batsman scoring 500 plus runs against a specific opposition in the history of T20Is. All such occasions are tabulated below. MJ Guptill became the sixth batsman to accomplish such a feat.

No	Player	Team	Oppn	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs
1	V Kohli	Ind	Aus	19	18	6	718
2	Mohd Hafeez	Pak	NZl	17	17	3	552
3	AJ Finch	Aus	Eng	12	12	3	550
4	PR Stirling	Ire	Afg	17	17	0	543
5	RG Sharma	Ind	Win	15	15	3	519
6	MJ Guptill	NZl	Pak	18	18	1	509
7	V Kohli	Ind	Win	12	11	3	501

MJ Guptill was playing his 18th T20I against Pakistan. He now shares the record for most T20I appearances by a New Zealand cricketer against Pakistan with LRPL Taylor.

MJ Guptill’s lone boundary six in this game fetched him 25 boundary sixes against Pakistan. He became the first New Zealand batsman to score 25 boundary sixes against a specific opposition and his feat provides the eleventh such occasion. He also became the tenth batsman to score 25 plus boundary sixes against a specific opposition. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Team	Opp	Mat	I	NO	Runs	6s
1	AJ Finch	Aus	Eng	12	12	3	550	34
2	Hazratullah Zazai	Afg	Ire	07	07	1	411	34
3	CH Gayle	Win	Eng	13	13	1	409	30
4	RG Sharma	Ind	Win	15	15	3	519	29
5	E Lewis	Win	Ind	09	08	1	322	28
6	GJ Maxwell	Aus	Ind	16	15	2	431	28
7	Mohammad Nabi	Afg	Ire	18	15	3	399	28
8	EJG Morgan	Eng	NZl	15	14	2	424	26
9	KA Pollard	Win	Ind	14	10	1	292	26
10	CH Gayle	Win	RSA	07	07	0	307	25
11	MJ Guptill	NZl	Pak	18	18	1	509	25

DP Conway scored 63 in this game to provide the 97^th occasion of a New Zealand batsman scoring a fifty in T20Is. It also provides the 14th occasion of a New Zealand batsman scoring a fifty in T20Is against Pakistan.

DP Conway scored 63 in this game to provide the second occasion of his scoring a fifty in T20Is. Prior to this he had scored 65 not out against West Indies at Mount Maunganui on 29 Nov 20. He was born in South Africa at Transval, Johannesburg on 08.07.91.

Mohammad Rizwan scored 89 in this game to provide the 97th occasion of a Pakistan batsman scoring a fifty in T20Is. It also provides the 15th occasion of Pakistan batsman scoring a fifty in T20Is against New Zealand.

At the end of this game – by a strange coincidence – New Zealand batsmen have scored fifties on 97 occasions against Pakistan and Pakistan batsmen have scored fifties on 97 occasions against New Zealand.

Mohammad Rizwan scored 89 in this game to provide the tenth occasion of a Pakistan wicket keeper batsman scoring a fifty in T20Is. It also provides the second occasion of Pakistan wicket keeper batsman scoring a fifty in T20Is against New Zealand.

Mohammad Rizwan scored 89 in this game to provide the fifth occasion of a Pakistan wicket keeper opening batsman scoring a fifty in T20Is. It also provides the second occasion of Pakistan wicket keeper opening batsman scoring a fifty in T20Is against New Zealand.

Mohammad Rizwan scored 89 in this game to provide the 45th occasion of a Pakistan opening batsman scoring a fifty in T20Is. It also provides the ninth occasion of Pakistan opening batsman scoring a fifty in T20Is against New Zealand.

Mohammad Rizwan scored 89 in this game to provide the highest individual score by a a Pakistan opening batsman against New Zealand in T20Is. The previous best was 79 by Babar Azam at Dub-DSC on 04.11.18.

Shadab Khan of Pakistan pouched three catches in New Zealand’s innings to provide the 129^th occasion of a fieldsman other than the wicket keeper taking three or more catches in an innings in the history of T20Is. It also provides the seventh occasion of a Pakistan fieldsman other than the wicket keepers taking three or more catches in an innings in T20Is.

Shadab Khan of Pakistan pouched three catches in New Zealand’s innings to provide the fourth occasion of a fieldsman other than the wicket keeper taking three or more catches in an innings in the history of T20Is against New Zealand. It also provides the second occasion of a Pakistan fieldsman taking three or more catches in an innings in T20Is against New Zealand. Shahid Afridi is the other fieldsman. He had pouched three catches against New Zealand at Auckland on 15.01.16.

Shadab Khan of Pakistan pouched three catches in New Zealand’s innings to provide the 17^th occasion of a captain other than the wicket keeper captain taking three or more catches in an innings in the history of T20Is. It also provides the second occasion of a Pakistan captain other than the wicket keepers taking three or more catches in an innings in T20Is. Shahid Afridi is the other captain. He had pouched three catches against New Zealand at Auckland on 15.01.16.

Shadab Khan of Pakistan pouched three catches in New Zealand’s innings to provide the 200th occasion of a fieldsman including the wicket keepers taking three or more catches in an innings in the history of T20Is. It also provides the ninth occasion of a Pakistan fieldsman including wicket keepers taking three or more catches in an innings in T20Is.

Shadab Khan of Pakistan pouched three catches in New Zealand’s innings to provide the ninth occasion of a fieldsman including the wicket keepers taking three or more catches in an innings in the history of T20Is against New Zealand. It also provides the second occasion of a Pakistan fieldsman including wicket keepers taking three or more catches in an innings in T20Is. Shahid Afridi is the other fieldsman. He had pouched three catches against New Zealand at Auckland on 15.01.16.

DJ Mitchell of New Zealand held three catches in this game as a substitute fieldsman to provide the second occasion of a substitute fieldsman pouching three catches in a T20I innings. MA Leask of Scotland is the other substitute fieldsman to pouch three catches in a T20I innings. He had taken three catches against Kenya at ICCA 2 Dubai on 19.10.19. There are twelve substitute fieldsmen who have pouched two catches in a T20I innings. JS Patel of New Zealand had pouched two catches as a substitute fieldsman against England at Durban on 18.09.07.

Mohammad Hafeez’s T20I run aggregate read 2323 at the end of this game. He now shares the record for most runs in T20Is by a Pakistan batsman with Shoaib Malik. Shoaib Malik has also an aggregate of 2323 runs in T20Is.

Mohammad Hafeez’s T20I run aggregate against New Zealand read 552 at the end of this game. He now stands second in the list of batsmen who have scored most runs in T20Is against a specific opposition. V Kohli of India has scored most runs. He has an aggregate of 718 runs against Australia

No	Player	Team	Oppn	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs
1	V Kohli	Ind	Aus	19	18	6	718
2	Mohd Hafeez	Pak	NZl	17	17	3	552

Mohd Hafeez’s boundary fours aggregate in T20Is read 55 at the end of this game. He is one of the five batsmen who have an aggregate of 50 plus boundary fours against a specific opposition in the history of T20Is. He now occupied the joint second place in the list of batsmen who have scored most boundary fours against a specific opposition. V Kohli of India has an aggregate of 55 boundary fours against Australia. The first place is occupied by PR Sterling of Ireland. He has an aggregate of 60 boundary fours against Afghanistan.

No	Player	Team	Opp	Mat	I	NO	Runs	HS	4s
1	PR Stirling	Ire	Afg	17	17	0	543	91	60
2	V Kohli	Ind	Aus	19	18	6	718	90*	55
3	Mohd Hafeez	Pak	NZl	17	17	3	552	99*	55
4	AJ Finch	Aus	Ind	15	15	0	440	89	54
5	Mohd Shahzad	Afg	Ire	12	12	2	436	77	52

Shadab Khan of Pakistan was dismissed first ball for a duck in this game to provide the 72^nd occasion of a captain collecting the first ball duck in T20Is. It also provides the sixth occasion of a Pakistan captain collecting the first ball duck in T20Is.

Shadab Khan of Pakistan was dismissed first ball for a duck in this game to provide the fourth occasion of a captain collecting the first ball duck in T20Is against New Zealand. It also provides the first occasion of a Pakistan captain collecting the first ball duck in T20Is against New Zealand.

Pakistan won this game with two balls to spare to provide the 34^th occasion of a team winning a T20I with two deliveries to spare. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Team	Res	Margin	BR	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	Ind	won	8 wkts	2	Aus	Melbourne	03 Feb 2012
2	NZl	won	5 wkts	2	Zim	Hamilton	14 Feb 2012
3	Afg	won	4 wkts	2	Net	Dub-DSC	14 Mar 2012
4	Eng	won	7 wkts	2	Win	Nottingham	24 Jun 2012
5	Pak	won	2 wkts	2	RSA	Col-RPS	28 Sep 2012
6	Pak	won	5 wkts	2	Ind	Bengaluru	25 Dec 2012
7	Ind	won	6 wkts	2	Aus	Rajkot	10 Oct 2013
8	Aus	won	5 wkts	2	RSA	Durban	12 Mar 2014
9	HKG	won	2 wkts	2	Ban	Chattogram	20 Mar 2014
10	Ind	won	7 wkts	2	Win	Dhaka	23 Mar 2014
11	Win	won	6 wkts	2	Aus	Dhaka	28 Mar 2014
12	Pak	won	2 wkts	2	Zim	Lahore	24 May 2015
13	Nep	won	3 wkts	2	Net	Rotterdam	03 Jul 2015
14	RSA	won	7 wkts	2	Ind	Dharamsala	02 Oct 2015
15	HKG	won	4 wkts	2	Afg	A Dhabi	28 Nov 2015
16	Oman	won	2 wkts	2	Ire	Dharamsala	09 Mar 2016
17	Eng	won	2 wkts	2	RSA	Mumbai	18 Mar 2016
18	Win	won	3 wkts	2	RSA	Nagpur	25 Mar 2016
19	Win	won	7 wkts	2	Ind	Mumbai	31 Mar 2016
20	Win	won	4 wkts	2	Eng	Kolkata	03 Apr 2016
21	Afg	won	5 wkts	2	UAE	Dub-DSC	16 Dec 2016
22	Srl	won	3 wkts	2	RSA	Jo’burg	22 Jan 2017
23	Ban	won	5 wkts	2	Srl	Col-RPS	10 Mar 2018
24	Eng	won	5 wkts	2	Ind	Cardiff	06 Jul 2018
25	Pak	won	6 wkts	2	NZl	Dub-DSC	02 Nov 2018
26	Ind	won	6 wkts	2	Aus	Sydney	25 Nov 2018
27	Aus	won	7 wkts	2	Ind	Bengaluru	27 Feb 2019
28	Qat	won	4 wkts	2	Mal	Singapore	27 Jul 2019
29	UAE	won	7 wkts	2	Net	The Hague	08 Aug 2019
30	Spa	won	4 wkts	2	Fin	Kerava	18 Aug 2019
31	NZl	won	4 wkts	2	Srl	Pallekele	03 Sep 2019
32	Ban	won	3 wkts	2	Zim	Dhaka	13 Sep 2019
33	Ind	won	6 wkts	2	Aus	Sydney	06 Dec 2020
34	Pak	won	4 wkts	2	NZl	Napier	22 Dec 2020

Pakistan won this game with two balls to spare to provide the fifth occasion of Pakistan winning a T20I with two deliveries to spare. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Team	Res	Margin	BR	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	Pak	won	5 wkts	2	Ind	Bengaluru	25 Dec 2012
2	Pak	won	2 wkts	2	Zim	Lahore	24 May 2015
3	Pak	won	2 wkts	2	RSA	Col-RPS	28 Sep 2012
4	Pak	won	4 wkts	2	NZl	Napier	22 Dec 2020
5	Pak	won	6 wkts	2	NZl	Dub-DSC	02 Nov 2018

Pakistan won this game with two balls to spare to provide the second occasion of a team winning a T20I with two deliveries to spare against New Zealand. Both such occasions are tabulated below. Both these occasions are against Pakistan.

No	Team	Res	Margin	BR	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	Pak	won	4 wkts	2	NZl	Napier	22 Dec 2020
2	Pak	won	6 wkts	2	NZl	Dub-DSC	02 Nov 2018

Pakistan won this game by six wickets to post its 97^th win in T20Is. It also represents its 14^th T20I win against New Zealand

New Zealand win the Hamilton T20I by nine wickets

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New Zealand vs Pakistan at Hamilton on 20 Dec 20

New Zealand won this game by nine wkts to post its 65^th win in T20Is and also its tenth win in T20Is against Pakistan. New Zealand became the second team to post ten or more victories against Pakistan in T20Is after England. England has posted eleven wins.

TG Southee captured four for 21 in this game to provide the 13th occasion of a New Zealand bowler capturing four or more wkts in T20Is. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Wkts	I	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	MR Gillespie	4-07	1	Ken	Durban	12 Sep 2007
2	DL Vettori	4-20	2	Ind	Jo’burg	16 Sep 2007
3	TG Southee	5-18	1	Pak	Auckland	26 Dec 2010
4	NL McCullum	4-16	2	Pak	Hamilton	28 Dec 2010
5	JEC Franklin	4-15	2	Eng	Hamilton	12 Feb 2013
6	NL McCullum	4-24	2	Win	Auckland	11 Jan 2014
7	GD Elliott	4-22	1	Srl	Auckland	10 Jan 2016
8	AF Milne	4-37	1	Pak	Auckland	15 Jan 2016
9	MJ Santner	4-11	2	Ind	Nagpur	15 Mar 2016
10	TA Boult	4-34	2	Ind	Rajkot	04 Nov 2017
11	LH Ferguson	5-21	1	Win	Auckland	27 Nov 2020
12	JA Duffy	4-33	1	Pak	Auckland	18 Dec 2020
13	TG Southee	4-21	1	Pak	Hamilton	20 Dec 2020

TG Southee captured four for 21 in this game to provide the fifth occasion of a New Zealand bowler capturing four or more wkts in T20Is against Pakistan. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Wkts	I	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	TG Southee	5-18	1	Pak	Auckland	26 Dec 2010
2	NL McCullum	4-16	2	Pak	Hamilton	28 Dec 2010
3	AF Milne	4-37	1	Pak	Auckland	15 Jan 2016
4	JA Duffy	4-33	1	Pak	Auckland	18 Dec 2020
5	TG Southee	4-21	1	Pak	Hamilton	20 Dec 2020

TG Southee captured four for 21 in this game to provide the second occasion of his capturing four or more wkts in T20Is. Prior to this he had captured 5 for 18 against Pakistan at Auckland on 26.12.10. Both such occasions are tabulated below. He became the first New Zealand bowler to capture four plus wkts on two occasions. By coincidence his two four plus wicket hauls are against Pakistan.

No	Player	Wkts	I	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	TG Southee	5-18	1	Pak	Auckland	26 Dec 2010
2	TG Southee	4-21	1	Pak	Hamilton	20 Dec 2020

Mohammad Hafeez scored 99 not out in this game to provide the 49th occasion of a batsman scoring a ninety in T20Is. It also provides the sixth occasion of a Pakistan batsman scoring ninety in T20Is

Mohammad Hafeez scored 99 not out in this game to provide the third occasion of a batsman scoring a ninety in T20Is against New Zealand. It also provides the first occasion of a Pakistan batsman scoring ninety in T20Is against New Zealand.

Mohammad Hafeez scored 99 not out in this game to provide the fourth occasion of a batsman scoring a ninety nine in T20Is. It also provides the first occasion of a Pakistan batsman scoring ninety nine in T20Is.

TL Siefert scored 84 not out in this game to provide the 53rd occasion of a New Zealand opener scoring a fifty in T20Is. It also provides the ninth occasion of a New Zealand opener scoring a fifty in T20Is against Pakistan.

TL Siefert scored 84 not out in this game to provide the 17th occasion of a New Zealand wicketkeeper batsman scoring a fifty in T20Is. It also provides the second occasion of a New Zealand wicketkeeper batsman scoring a fifty in T20Is against Pakistan.

TL Siefert scored 84 not out in this game to provide the tenth occasion of a New Zealand wicket keeper opener scoring a fifty in T20Is. It also provides the seconf occasion of a New Zealand wicket keeper opener scoring a fifty in T20Is against Pakistan.

TL Siefert {84*} and KS Williamson {57*} not out scored fifties in this game to provide the 95^th and 96^th occasion of New Zealand batsmen scoring fifties in T20Is. It also provides the 12^th and 13th occasion of New Zealand batsmen scoring fifties in T20Is against Pakistan.

KS Williamson’s 57 not out in this game provide the fourth occasion of hiw scoring a fifty against Pakistan in T20Is. He became the second New Zealand batsman to score fifties on four occasions after MJ Guptill. The following table lists the fifties scored by these two batsmen.

No	Player	Runs	I	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	MJ Guptill	54	2	Pak	Auckland	26 Dec 2010
2	MJ Guptill	87*	2	Pak	Hamilton	17 Jan 2016
3	MJ Guptill	80	1	Pak	Mohali	22 Mar 2016
4	MJ Guptill	59	2	Pak	Mt Maunganui	28 Jan 2018

1	KS Williamson	70	2	Pak	Auckland	15 Jan 2016
2	KS Williamson	72*	2	Pak	Hamilton	17 Jan 2016
3	KS Williamson	60	2	Pak	Dubai (DSC)	04 Nov 2018
4	KS Williamson	57*	2	Pak	Hamilton	20 Dec 2020

KS Williamson’s 57 not out in this game represent his 12^th fifty in T20Is. He is the fourth New Zealand batsman to score 12 or more fifties in T20Is. Others are – MJ Guptill {17}, BB McCullum {15} and C Munro {14}

TL Siefert {84*} and KS Williamson {57*} not out scored fifties in this game providing the 22nd occasion of two batsmen scoring unbeaten fifties in T20Is. It also provides the second occasion of New Zealand batsmen scoring unbeaten fifties in T20Is. By a coincidence both these occasions are against Pakistan.

No	Player	Runs	I	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	MJ Guptill	87*	2	Pak	Hamilton	17 Jan 2016
2	KS Williamson	72*	2	Pak	Hamilton	17 Jan 2016

1	TL Seifert	84*	2	Pak	Hamilton	20 Dec 2020
2	KS Williamson	57*	2	Pak	Hamilton	20 Dec 2020

TL Siefert {84*} and KS Williamson {57*} not out scored unbeaten fifties in this game providing the 24^th and 25^th occasion of New Zealand batsmen scoring unbeaten fifties in T20Is. It also provides the fourth and fifth occasion of New Zealand batsmen scoring unbeaten fifties in T20Is against Pakistan.

MJ Guptill’s T20I run aggregate at the end of this game read 2602. He now stands third in the list of batsmen who have scored most runs in T20Is. The first two places are occupied by V Kohli {2928} and RG Sharma {2773}

MJ Guptill’s T20I run aggregate at the end of this game read 490 against Pakistan. He now owns the record for most runs by a batsman in T20Is against Pakistan. He needs ten more runs to total 500 runs against Pakistan to become the first New Zealand batsman to total 500 plus runs against Pakistan and also the first ever batsman to total 500 plus runs against Pakistan.

Mohd Hafeez {99*} for Pakistan and TL Siefert {84*} and KS Williamson {57*} not out scored unbeaten fifties in this game providing the sixth occasion of three batsmen scoring unbeaten fifties in a T20I match.

KS Williamson’s 57 not out in this game fetched him an aggregate of 413 runs against Pakistan in T20Is. He became the second batsman and also the second New Zealand batsman to total 400 plus runs in T20Is against Pakistan after MJ Guptill. MJ Guptill has an aggregate of 490 runs against Pakistan.

New Zealand won this game by nine wickets to provide the 39^th occasion of a team winning a T20I by nine wickets margin. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Team	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	New Zealand	v Kenya	Durban	12 Sep 2007
2	Australia	v Bangladesh	Cape Town	16 Sep 2007
3	Australia	v India	Melbourne	01 Feb 2008
4	England	v New Zealand	Manchester	13 Jun 2008
5	Scotland	v Kenya	Belfast	04 Aug 2008
6	Kenya	v Canada	Dubai (DSC)	10 Feb 2010
7	Sri Lanka	v England	Bristol	25 Jun 2011
8	Australia	v India	Colombo (RPS)	28 Sep 2012
9	Sri Lanka	v West Indies	Pallekele	29 Sep 2012
10	South Africa	v Pakistan	Dubai (DSC)	13 Nov 2013
11	Bangladesh	v Afghanistan	Dhaka	16 Mar 2014
12	Sri Lanka	v Netherlands	Chattogram	24 Mar 2014
13	Scotland	v U.A.E.	Edinburgh	09 Jul 2015
14	New Zealand	v Sri Lanka	Auckland	10 Jan 2016
15	Hong Kong	v Scotland	Mong Kok	30 Jan 2016
16	India	v Sri Lanka	Visakhapatnam	14 Feb 2016
17	South Africa	v England	Johannesburg	21 Feb 2016
18	India	v U.A.E.	Dhaka	03 Mar 2016
19	Pakistan	v England	Manchester	07 Sep 2016
20	Pakistan	v West Indies	Dubai (DSC)	23 Sep 2016
21	England	v South Africa	Southampton	21 Jun 2017
22	India	v Australia	Ranchi	07 Oct 2017
23	Australia	v Pakistan	Harare	02 Jul 2018
24	Namibia	v Ghana	Kampala	20 May 2019
25	P.N.G.	v Samoa	Apia (No 1)	08 Jul 2019
26	Ireland	v Zimbabwe	Bready	12 Jul 2019
27	South Africa	v India	Bengaluru	22 Sep 2019
28	Nepal	v Singapore	Singapore	28 Sep 2019
29	Argentina	v Mexico	C Polo Club Pitch A	03 Oct 2019
30	Greece	v Bulgaria	Corfu	16 Oct 2019
31	Australia	v Sri Lanka	Brisbane	30 Oct 2019
32	Pakistan	v Bangladesh	Lahore	25 Jan 2020
33	Kuwait	v Saudi Arabia	Al Amerat	23 Feb 2020
34	Saudi Arabia	v Iran	Al Amerat	24 Feb 2020
35	Nepal	v Thailand	Bangkok	04 Mar 2020
36	Spain	v Germany	Almeria	08 Mar 2020
37	Bangladesh	v Zimbabwe	Dhaka	11 Mar 2020
38	England	v South Africa	Cape Town	01 Dec 2020
39	New Zealand	v Pakistan	Hamilton	20 Dec 2020

New Zealand won this game by nine wickets to provide the third occasion of a New Zealand winning a T20I by nine wickets margin. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Team	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	New Zealand	v Kenya	Durban	12 Sep 2007
2	New Zealand	v Sri Lanka	Auckland	10 Jan 2016
3	New Zealand	v Pakistan	Hamilton	20 Dec 2020

New Zealand won this game by nine wickets to provide the third occasion of a team winning a T20I by nine wickets margin against Pakistan. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Team	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	South Africa	v Pakistan	Dubai (DSC)	13 Nov 2013
2	Australia	v Pakistan	Harare	02 Jul 2018
3	New Zealand	v Pakistan	Hamilton	20 Dec 2020

New Zealand wins Auckland T20I by five wickets

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New Zealand vs Pakistan First T20I at Auckland 18 Dec 20

JA Duffy captured four for 33 in this game to provide the 22^nd occasion of a bowler capturing four or more wickets on debut in T20Is. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	W-R	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	MS Kasprowicz	4-29	2	Aus	NZl	Auckland	17 Feb 2005
2	J Lewis	4-24	2	Eng	Aus	Southampton	13 Jun 2005
3	AR Cusack	4-21	1	Ire	Sco	Belfast	02 Aug 2008
4	HS Baidwan	4-19	1	Can	Net	Belfast	02 Aug 2008
5	BAW Mendis	4-15	1	Srl	Zim	King City (NW)	10 Oct 2008
6	K Weeraratne	4-19	2	Srl	Pak	King City (NW)	11 Oct 2008
7	PP Ojha	4-21	2	Ind	Ban	Nottingham	06 Jun 2009
8	D Bishoo	4-17	2	Win	Pak	Gros Islet	21 Apr 2011
9	Elias Sunny	5-13	2	Ban	Ire	Belfast	18 Jul 2012
10	BB Sran	4-10	1	Ind	Zim	Harare	20 Jun 2016
11	PADLR Sandakan	4-23	1	Srl	SAF	Johannesburg	22 Jan 2017
12	BJ McCarthy	4-33	1	Ire	Afg	Greater Noida	10 Mar 2017
13	TC Vine	4-28	1	Esp	Mal	Cartagena	29 Mar 2019
14	MJ Ross	4-23	1	ITA	Ger	Utrecht	25 May 2019
15	HAM Shah	4-23	1	Den	Jer	Castel	16 Jun 2019
16	MR Adair	4-40	1	Ire	Zim	Bready	12 Jul 2019
17	Bilal Zalmai	4-12	1	Aut	Rom	Ilfov County	29 Aug 2019
18	A Nanda	5-06	1	Lux	Tur	Ilfov County	29 Aug 2019
19	EB Ringera	4-18	1	Ken	PNG	Dubai (DSC)	27 Oct 2019
20	Khizar Hayat	5-04	2	Mal	HKG	Kuala Lumpur	20 Feb 2020
21	ST Kanakalil	4-31	2	Mlt	Bul	Sofia	23 Sep 2020
22	JA Duffy	4-33	1	NZl	Pak	Auckland	18 Dec 2020

It also provides the first occasion of a New Zealand bowler capturing four wickets on T20I debut and also provides the third occasion of a bowler capturing four wicket on T20I debut against Pakistan

No	Player	W-R	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	K Weeraratne	4-19	2	Srl	Pak	King City (NW)	11 Oct 2008
2	D Bishoo	4-17	2	Win	Pak	Gros Islet	21 Apr 2011
3	JA Duffy	4-33	1	NZl	Pak	Auckland	18 Dec 2020

JA Duffy captured four for 33 in this game to provide the 12th occasion of a New Zealand bowler capturing four or more wickets in T20Is. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Wkts	I	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	MR Gillespie	4-07	1	Ken	Durban	12 Sep 2007
2	DL Vettori	4-20	2	Ind	Jo’burg	16 Sep 2007
3	TG Southee	5-18	1	Pak	Auckland	26 Dec 2010
4	NL McCullum	4-16	2	Pak	Hamilton	28 Dec 2010
5	JEC Franklin	4-15	2	Eng	Hamilton	12 Feb 2013
6	NL McCullum	4-24	2	Win	Auckland	11 Jan 2014
7	GD Elliott	4-22	1	Srl	Auckland	10 Jan 2016
8	AF Milne	4-37	1	Pak	Auckland	15 Jan 2016
9	MJ Santner	4-11	2	Ind	Nagpur	15 Mar 2016
10	TA Boult	4-34	2	Ind	Rajkot	04 Nov 2017
11	LH Ferguson	5-21	1	Win	Auckland	27 Nov 2020
12	JA Duffy	4-33	1	Pak	Auckland	18 Dec 2020

JA Duffy captured four for 33 in this game to provide the fourth occasion of a New Zealand bowler capturing four or more wickets in T20Is against Pakistan. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Wkts	I	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	TG Southee	5-18	1	Pak	Auckland	26 Dec 2010
2	NL McCullum	4-16	2	Pak	Hamilton	28 Dec 2010
3	AF Milne	4-37	1	Pak	Auckland	15 Jan 2016
4	JA Duffy	4-33	1	Pak	Auckland	18 Dec 2020

Mohammad Hafeez was dismissed for a first ball duck in this game to provide the 52nd occasion of a Pakistan batsman collecting the first ball duck in T20Is. It also provides the eighth occasion of a Pakistan batsman collecting the first ball duck in T20Is against New Zealand.

Mohammad Hafeez was dismissed for a first ball duck in this game to provide the fourth occasion of his collecting the first ball duck in T20Is. He became the fourth Pakistan batsman to collect four or more first ball ducks. Others are – Shahid Afridi {06}, Umar Akmal {06} and Imad Wasim {04}

Mohammad Hafeez was dismissed duck in this game to provide the seventh occasion of his collecting a duck in T20Is. He became the fourth Pakistan batsman to collect four or more first ball ducks. Others are – Umar Akmal {10}, Shahid Afridi {08} and Kamran Akmal {07}

Abdullah Shafique scored a duck in this game to provide the 28^th occasion of a Pakistan opener scoring a duck in T20Is. It also provides the second occasion of a Pakistan opener scoring a duck in T20Is against New Zealand after Umar Amin. Umar Amin was dismissed for a duck at Wellington on 22.01.18.

This series witnessed new captains for both the teams New Zealand and Pakistan. MJ Santner led New Zealand while Shadab Khan led Pakistan.

MJ Santner became the eighth captain to lead New Zealand in T20Is. He also became the sixth New Zealand captain to lead in T20Is against Pakistan. Shadab Khan became the ninth captain to lead Pakistan in T20Is. He also became the sixth Pakistan captain to lead in T20Is against New Zealand. He made 42 in this game. It is the third highest score by a Pakistan captain on his first captaincy assignment. Babar Azam had scored 59 not out on his first captaincy assignment against Australia at Sydney on 03 Nov 2019. Shahid Afridi had scored 50 on his first captaincy assignment against Sri Lanka at Col-RPS on 12 Aug 09.

TL Siefert scored 57 in this game to provide the 52nd occasion of a New Zealand opener scoring a fifty in T20Is. It also provides the eighth occasion of a New Zealand opener scoring a fifty in T20Is against Pakistan.

TL Siefert scored 57 in this game to provide the 16th occasion of a New Zealand wicketkeeper batsman scoring a fifty in T20Is. It also provides the first occasion of a New Zealand wicketkeeper batsman scoring a fifty in T20Is against Pakistan.

TL Siefert scored 57 in this game to provide the ninth occasion of a New Zealand wicket keeper opener scoring a fifty in T20Is. It also provides the first occasion of a New Zealand wicket keeper opener scoring a fifty in T20Is against Pakistan.

MJ Guptill’s T20I run aggregate at the end of this game read 2581. He now stands third in the list of batsmen who have scored most runs in T20Is. The first two places are occupied by V Kohli {2928} and RG Sharma {2773}

MJ Guptill’s T20I run aggregate at the end of this game read 469 against Pakistan. He now owns the record for most runs by a batsman in T20Is against Pakistan.

New Zealand won this game by five wickets to post its 64^th win in T20is. It also represents its ninth win in T20Is against Pakistan. New Zealand became the third team to post nine or more wins against Pakistan. Others are – England {11} and Australia {09}

Wrong reporting by Times of India

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A Times of India {in India} report on yesterday’s match between Australia and India at Adelaide says that India posted its highest and lowest total in test innings on Dec 19. This information is carried in almost all the newspapers and also on social media in the country.

This is wrong and erroneous reporting. India posted its highest total of 759 for 7 declared against England at Chennai in the test which had a start date of 16 Dec 2016. India started its batting on the second day of the test and its score was 60 for no loss at the end of the second day {17 Dec 2016}. India batted the entire third day and took its score to 391 for 4 at the end of the third day {18 Dec 2016}. India declared its innings closed on the fourth day at 759 for 7 {19 Dec 2016}.

Thus to say, that India posted its highest total of 759 for 7 declared on 19 Dec 2016 is absolutely wrong and erroneous because India batted for three days to post 759 runs.

Let us not forget the nomenclature of tests are done on start date, while for one day and Twenty20 Internationals it is match date. If a one day is played for two days, that game will have a start date. This nomenclature is an accepted practice as of now. Let us not deviate from the accepted practice to create something unusual, because the present generation of youngsters and cricket enthusiasts are mislead.

PJ Cummins and JR Hazzlewood wreck India – India dismissed for its lowest total in tests.

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First Test Australia Vs India Pink Test at Adelaide – Third day

India lost its six wickets for 19 in its second innings to provide the eighth occasion of a team losing six wickets for 19 or less than 19 runs in the annals of test cricket. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	W/R	I	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	6/19	3	Ind	Aus	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020
2	6/18	3	Aus	Eng	Lord’s	16 Jul 1888
3	6/18	4	Srl	NZl	Kandy	09 Mar 1984
4	6/18	3	Aus	SAF	Cape Town	09 Nov 2011
5	6/18	1	Eng	NZl	Auckland	22 Mar 2018
6	6/17	1	Eng	Aus	Sydney	28 Jan 1887
7	6/11	4	Aus	Eng	The Oval	10 Aug 1896
8	6/07	3	Aus	Eng	Manchester	30 Aug 1888

India lost its six wickets for 19 in its second innings to provide the second occasion of a team losing six wickets for 19 or less than 19 runs in the annals of test cricket against Australia. Both such occasions are tabulated below

No	W/R	I	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	6/19	3	Ind	Aus	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020
2	6/17	1	Eng	Aus	Sydney	28 Jan 1887

Thus it took 132 years and eleven months for Australia to capture six wickets for 19 or less than 19 runs.

JR Hazzlewood captured five wickets conceding eight runs in India’s second innings to provide the 12^th occasion of a bowler capturing five or more wickets in a test innings conceding single digit runs {one to nine}. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	W-R	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	GA Lohmann	8-7	4	Eng	SAF	P Elizabeth	13 Feb 1896
2	AER Gilligan	6-7	2	Eng	SAF	Birmingham	14 Jun 1924
3	H Ironmonger	5-6	1	Aus	SAF	Melbourne	12 Feb 1932
4	ERH Toshack	5-2	2	Aus	Ind	Brisbane	28 Nov 1947
5	TBA May	5-9	3	Aus	Win	Adelaide	23 Jan 1993
6	JJC Lawson	6-3	3	Win	Ban	Dhaka	08 Dec 2002
7	MJ Clarke	6-9	3	Aus	Ind	Mumbai	03 Nov 2004
8	VD Philander	5-7	1	SAF	NZl	Cape Town	02 Jan 2013
9	DW Steyn	6-8	2	SAF	Pak	Jo’burg	01 Feb 2013
10	KAJ Roach	5-8	1	Win	Ban	N Sound	04 Jul 2018
11	JJ Bumrah	5-7	4	Ind	Win	N Sound	22 Aug 2019
12	JR Hazlewood	5-8	3	Aus	Ind	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

JR Hazzlewood captured five wickets conceding eight runs in India’s second innings to provide the fifth occasion of an Australian bowler capturing five or more wickets in a test innings conceding single digit runs {one to nine}. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	W-R	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	H Ironmonger	5-6	1	Aus	SAF	Melbourne	12 Feb 1932
2	ERH Toshack	5-2	2	Aus	Ind	Brisbane	28 Nov 1947
3	TBA May	5-9	3	Aus	Win	Adelaide	23 Jan 1993
4	MJ Clarke	6-9	3	Aus	Ind	Mumbai	03 Nov 2004
5	JR Hazlewood	5-8	3	Aus	Ind	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

JR Hazzlewood captured five wickets conceding eight runs in India’s second innings to provide the third occasion of an Australian bowler capturing five or more wickets in a test innings against India conceding single digit runs {one to nine}. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	W-R	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	ERH Toshack	5-2	2	Aus	Ind	Brisbane	28 Nov 1947
2	MJ Clarke	6-9	3	Aus	Ind	Mumbai	03 Nov 2004
3	JR Hazlewood	5-8	3	Aus	Ind	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

India was dismissed for 36 in its second innings to provide the 23^rd occasion of a team dismissed for a total less than 50 in the annals of test cricket. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Team	Score	I	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	Eng	45	1	Aus	Sydney	28 Jan 1887
2	Aus	42	2	Eng	Sydney	10 Feb 1888
3	SAF	47	2	Eng	Cape Town	25 Mar 1889
4	SAF	43	3	Eng	Cape Town	25 Mar 1889
5	SAF	30	4	Eng	P Elizabeth	13 Feb 1896
6	Aus	44	4	Eng	The Oval	10 Aug 1896
7	SAF	35	4	Eng	Cape Town	01 Apr 1899
8	Aus	36	2	Eng	Birmingham	29 May 1902
9	SAF	30	2	Eng	Birmingham	14 Jun 1924
10	SAF	36	1	Aus	Melbourne	12 Feb 1932
11	SAF	45	3	Aus	Melbourne	12 Feb 1932
12	NZl	42	1	Aus	Wellington	29 Mar 1946
13	NZl	26	3	Eng	Auckland	25 Mar 1955
14	NZl	47	2	Eng	Lord’s	19 Jun 1958
15	Ind	42	3	Eng	Lord’s	20 Jun 1974
16	Eng	46	4	Win	Port of Spain	25 Mar 1994
17	Win	47	3	Eng	Kingston	11 Mar 2004
18	Aus	47	3	SAF	Cape Town	09 Nov 2011
19	NZl	45	1	SAF	Cape Town	02 Jan 2013
20	Pak	49	2	SAF	Johannesburg	01 Feb 2013
21	Ban	43	1	Win	North Sound	04 Jul 2018
22	Ire	38	4	Eng	Lord’s	24 Jul 2019
23	Ind	36	3	Aus	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

India was dismissed for 36 in its second innings to provide the fifth occasion of a team dismissed for a total less than 50 in the annals of test cricket by Australia. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Team	Score	I	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	Eng	45	1	Aus	Sydney	28 Jan 1887
2	SAF	36	1	Aus	Melbourne	12 Feb 1932
3	SAF	45	3	Aus	Melbourne	12 Feb 1932
4	NZl	42	1	Aus	Wellington	29 Mar 1946
5	Ind	36	3	Aus	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

India was dismissed for 36 in its second innings to provide the second occasion of India dismissed for a total less than 50 in the annals of test cricket by Australia. Both such occasions are tabulated below

No	Team	Score	I	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	Ind	42	3	Eng	Lord’s	20 Jun 1974
2	Ind	36	3	Aus	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

In India’s second innings, no batsman reached double figures providing the second such occasion in the annals of test cricket. The first such occasion was witnessed when all the eleven batsman of South Africa scored single digit runs in the second innings of the test against England at Birmingham in Jun 1924

No	Team	Score	Num	I	Oppn	Ground	Match Date
1	SAF	30	11	2	Eng	Birmingham	14 Jun 1924
2	Ind	36	11	3	Aus	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

Indian second innings contained three ducks to provide the 22^nd occasion of three or more Indian batsmen scoring ducks in a test innings against Australia. It also provides the 14th occasion of three or more Indian batsmen scoring ducks in a test innings against Australia

TM Paine of Australia scored 73 not out as a wicket keeper batsman and effected five dismissals – all caught – to provide the 44^th occasion of a wicket keeper scoring a fifty in an innings or in both innings and effecting five or more dismissals in an innings or in both innings in the annals of test cricket. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Scores	Ct+St	Team	Opp	Ground	Mon/Yr
1	DT Lindsay	69+182	6+0	SAF	Aus	Jo’burg	Dec 66
2	Wasim Bari	63	5+0	Pak	Eng	Leeds	Jul 71
3	RW Marsh	91	5+0	Aus	Eng	Manchester	Jun 72
4	RW Marsh	56	5+0	Aus	Win	Melbourne	Dec 75
5	SMH Kirmani	66	5+0	Ind	Pak	Faisalabad	Jan 83
6	SAR Silva	111	5+0	Srl	Ind	Col-PSS	Sep 85
7	RC Russell	55	5+0	Eng	Win	Bridgetown	Apr 90
8	IA Healy	58	5+0	Aus	Pak	Rawalpindi	Oct 94
9	IA Healy	70	5+0	Aus	Srl	Adelaide	Jan 96
10	MV Boucher	52	6+0	SAF	Pak	P Elizabeth	Mar 98
11	AJ Stewart	56	5+0	Eng	SAF	Lord’s	Jun 98
12	AC Gilchrist	75	10+0	Aus	NZl	Hamilton	Mar 00
13	MV Boucher	63	5+0	SAF	Srl	Centurion	Nov 02
14	AC Gilchrist	80	5+0	Aus	Srl	Darwin	Jul 04
15	MV Boucher	63	5+0	SAF	Aus	Jo’burg	Mar 06
16	AC Gilchrist	62	5+0	Aus	Eng	Sydney	Jan 07
17	BB McCullum	51	5+0	NZl	Eng	Hamilton	Mar 08
18	MS Dhoni	52+56*	6+0	Ind	NZl	Wellington	Apr 09
19	D Ramdin	54	5+0	Win	Aus	Brisbane	Nov 09
20	BB McCullum	89	5+0	NZl	Pak	Napier	Dec 09
21	MV Boucher	638	5+0	SAF	Eng	Centurion	Dec 09
22	MJ Prior	85	6+0	Eng	Aus	Melbourne	Dec 10
23	MJ Prior	118	5+0	Eng	Aus	Sydney	Jan 11
24	MV Boucher	65	6+0	SAF	Srl	Centurion	Dec 11
25	MJ Prior	73	5+1	Eng	SAF	Lord’s	Aug 12
26	de Villiers	103*	11+0	SAF	Pak	Jo’burg	Feb 13
27	MJ Prior	73+110*	5+0	Eng	NZl	Auckland	Mar 13
28	BJ Haddin	65*	5+0	Aus	Eng	Manchester	Aug 13
29	de Villiers	74	5+0	SAF	Ind	Durban	Dec 13
30	BJ Watling	124	5+0	NZl	Ind	Wellington	Feb 14
31	BJ Watling	89	5+0	NZl	Win	Kingston	Jun 14
32	Q de Kock	51	5+0	SAF	Srl	Galle	Jul 14
33	JC Buttler	59*	5+0	Eng	Win	N Sound	Apr 15
34	JM Bairstow	140	5+0	Eng	Srl	Leeds	May 16
35	Q de Kock	82+50	5+0	SAF	NZl	Centurion	Aug 16
36	Q de Kock	90	5+0	SAF	NZl	Hamilton	Mar 17
37	JM Bairstow	101	5+0	Eng	NZl	Christchurch	Mar 18
38	JM Bairstow	70	5+0	Eng	Ind	Birmingham	Aug 18
39	S Ahmed	50	10+0	Pak	SAF	Jo’burg	Jan 19
40	BJ Watling	105*	5+0	NZl	Srl	Col-PSS	Aug 19
41	TD Paine	79	5+0	Aus	NZl	Melbourne	Dec 19
42	Q de Kock	95	6+0	SAF	Eng	Centurion	Dec 19
43	Q de Kock	50	5+0	SAF	Eng	Cape Town	Jan 20
44	TD Paine	73*	5+0	Aus	Ind	Adelaide	Dec 20

It also provides the tenth occasion of an Australian wicket keeper batsman scoring a fifty in an innings or in both innings and effecting five or more dismissals in an innings or in both innings of a test. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	FI	SI	Ct	St	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	RW Marsh	–	91	5	0	Eng	Manchester	08 Jun 1972
2	RW Marsh	56	–	5	0	Win	Melbourne	26 Dec 1975
3	IA Healy	58	–	5	0	Pak	Rawalpindi	05 Oct 1994
4	IA Healy	70	–	5	0	Srl	Adelaide	25 Jan 1996
5	AC Gilchrist	75	–	10	0	NZl	Hamilton	31 Mar 2000
6	AC Gilchrist	–	80	5	0	Srl	Darwin	01 Jul 2004
7	AC Gilchrist	62	–	5	0	Eng	Sydney	02 Jan 2007
8	BJ Haddin	65*	–	5	0	Eng	Manchester	01 Aug 2013
9	TD Paine	79	–	5	0	NZl	Melbourne	26 Dec 2019
10	TD Paine	73*	–	5	0	Ind	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

It also provides the fifth occasion of a wicket keeper against India.

No	Player	FI	SI	Ct	St	Team	Ground	Start Date
1	SAR Silva	111	–	5	0	Srl	Col-PSS	06 Sep 1985
2	AB de Villiers	74	–	5	0	SAF	Durban	26 Dec 2013
3	BJ Watling	–	124	5	0	NZl	Wellington	14 Feb 2014
4	JM Bairstow	70	–	5	0	Eng	Birmingham	01 Aug 2018
5	TD Paine	73*	–	5	0	Aus	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

Australia won this test by eight wickets to post its 394^th win and also its 43^rd win against India. It also represents its eighth win in Pink Ball Tests. Australia is yet to lose a Pink Ball test.

Tim Paine’s fifty reduces the first innings lead for India

19/12/2020 hrg

First Test Australia Vs India Pink Test at Adelaide – Second Day

MA Starc retuned with four for 53 in this test to provide the seventh occasion of his capturing four or more wickets in an innings of a Pink Ball Test. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	W-R	I	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	4-088	3	SAF	Adelaide	24 Nov 2016
2	4-119	4	Pak	Brisbane	15 Dec 2016
3	5-088	4	Eng	Adelaide	02 Dec 2017
4	6-066	2	Pak	Adelaide	29 Nov 2019
5	5-052	2	NZl	Perth	12 Dec 2019
6	4-045	4	NZl	Perth	12 Dec 2019
7	4-053	1	Ind	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

He remains the only bowler to capture four wickets in an innings on seven occasions in Pink Ball tests.

TM Paine scored 73 not out in this test to provide the eighth occasion of a wicket keeper batsman scoring a fifty in an innings of a Pink Ball Test. It also provides his second fifty in a Pink Ball Test. Prior to this he had scored 57 against England in Dec 2017. TM Paine became the third wicketkeeper batsman to score fifties on two occasions after N Dickwella and Sarfraz Ahmed. The following table lists the performance of these three wicketkeeper batsmen.

No	No	Player	R	I	Team	Oppn	Ground	Mon/Year
1	1	N Dickwella	52	1	Srl	Pak	Dub-DSC	Oct 2017
	2	N Dickwella	64	1	Srl	Aus	Brisbane	Jan 2019

2	1	TD Paine	57	1	Aus	Eng	Adelaide	Dec 2017
	2	TD Paine	73*	2	Aus	Ind	Adelaide	Dec 2020

3	1	S Ahmed	59*	2	Pak	Aus	Brisbane	Dec 2016
	2	S Ahmed	68	4	Pak	Srl	Dub-DSC	Oct 2017

TM Paine scored 73 not out in this test to provide the 16th occasion of a captain scoring a fifty in an innings of a Pink Ball Test.

V Kohli scored 74 and TM Paine scored 73 not out test in the first and second innings of this test to provide the second occasion of rival captains scoring fifties in the first and second innings of a Pink Ball Test. It also provides the fifth occasion of rival captains scoring fifties in a Pink Ball Test.

TM Paine scored 73 not out in this test to provide the second occasion of a captain wicket keeper batsman scoring a fifty in an innings of a Pink Ball Test. Prior to this Sarfraz Ahmed of Pakistan had scored 68 against Sri Lanka at Dub-DSC in Oct 2017

No	No	Player	R	I	Team	Oppn	Ground	Mon/Year
1	*+	TD Paine	73*	2	Aus	Ind	Adelaide	Dec 2020
2	*+	S Ahmed	68	4	Pak	Srl	Dub-DSC	Oct 2017

R Ashwin captured four for 55 in Australia’s first innings to provide the 40^th occasion of a bowler capturing four wickets in an innings in the Pink Ball Test. It also provides the fourth occasion of an Indian bowler capturing four or more wickets in an innings in the Pink Ball test

No	Player	W-R	I	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	I Sharma	5-22	1	Ban	Kolkata	22 Nov 2019
2	I Sharma	4-56	3	Ban	Kolkata	22 Nov 2019
3	UT Yadav	5-53	3	Ban	Kolkata	22 Nov 2019
4	R Ashwin	4-55	2	Aus	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

It also provides the tenth occasion of a bowler capturing four or more wickets in an innings in a Pink Ball Test against Australia and the fourth such occasion in a Pink Ball Test at Adelaide.

It also provides the tenth occasion of a spin bowler capturing four or more wickets in an innings in a Pink Ball Test and also the first occasion of a spin bowler capturing four or more wickets in a Pink Ball Test against Australia

R Ashwin’s four wicket haul in this test fetched him an aggregate of 81 wickets against Australia. He became the third Indian bowler to capture 80 plus wickets against Australia. Others are A Kumble {111} and Harbhajan Singh {95}

R Ashwin and UT Yadav joined the list of Indian bowlers who have captured an aggregate of 30 plus wickets against Australia in Australia. The following table lists the eight bowlers.

No	Player	Mat	Ins	Balls	Runs	W	F	T
1	N Kapil Dev	11	21	3137	1254	51	5	0
2	A Kumble	10	18	3204	1849	49	4	1
3	BS Bedi	07	14	2391	0963	35	3	1
4	R Ashwin	08	13	2667	1353	31	0	0
5	Mohd Shami	08	15	1681	0997	31	2	0
6	EAS Prasanna	08	15	2561	0965	31	2	0
7	I Sharma	13	23	2727	1505	31	0	0
8	UT Yadav	09	15	1738	1278	30	1	0

R Ashwin became the fourth Indian spin bowler to capture 30 plus wickets against Australia in Australia.

No	Player	Mat	Ins	Balls	Runs	W	F	T
1	A Kumble	10	18	3204	1849	49	4	1
2	BS Bedi	07	14	2391	0963	35	3	1
3	R Ashwin	08	13	2667	1353	31	0	0
4	EAS Prasanna	08	15	2561	0965	31	2	0

MS Wade and JA Burns opened Australia’s innings to provide the 245th opening pair for Australia. They also became the 44th Australia’s opening pair against India and also became the Australia’s sixth opening pair in Pink Ball Tests.

MS Wade opened for the first time in his test career. This was his 33^rd test and his 56th innings.

Australia capped C Green for this test. He became the 459^th cricketer to represent Australia in tests and also became the 53^rd cricketer to make his test debut against India.

Australia capped C Green for this test. He became the 294th cricketer to represent Australia in tests on home soil and also became the 36th cricketer to make his test debut against India on home soil.

Australia capped C Green for this test. He became the 48th cricketer to represent Australia in tests at Adelaide and also became the 12th cricketer to make his test debut against India at Adelaide.

V Kohli pouched two catches in Australia’s first innings in this test which fetched him 20 catches against Australia. He became the fifth Indian fieldsman – other than the wicket keepers – to pouch 20 plus catches against Australia. Others are – R Dravid {46}, VVS Laxman {33}, SR Tendulkar {23} and V Sehwag {22}

V Kohli pouched two catches in Australia’s first innings in this test which fetched him 55 catches while leading India. He is one of the two Indian captains who have pouched 50 plus catches in tests after M Azharuddin. M Azharuddin has pouched 50 catches.

V Kohli pouched two catches in Australia’s first innings in this test which fetched him eleven catches against Australia while leading India. He now owns the record for most catches by an Indian captain against Australia. He went past M Azharuddin who has pouched nine catches against Australia while leading India.

V Kohli’s knock of 74 in India’s first innings contained eight boundary fours which fetched him 150 boundary fours against Australia on away soil. He became the third Indian batsman to score 150 boundary fours against Australia on away soil. Others are – SR Tendulkar {209} and V Sehwag {165}

V Kohli’s knock of 74 in India’s first innings fetched him an aggregate of 5216 runs while leading India. He now occupies the fifth place in the list of captains who have scored most runs. Other captains to score more than V Kohli are – GC Smith {8659}, AR Border {6623}, RT Ponting {6542} and CH Lloyd {5233}. V Kohli went past SP Fleming’s aggregate of 5156 runs on his way to the fifth place.

V Kohli posts his 50th fifty

18/12/2020 hrg

First Test Australia Vs India Pink Test at Adelaide – First Day

This test provides the 16^th Pink Ball Test in the annals of Test Cricket. It also provides the eighth Pink Ball Test for Australia and the second Pink Ball Test for India.

PP Shaw was dismissed for a duck in this test to provide the tenth occasion of an opening batsman dismissed for a duck in a Pink Ball Test. All such occasions are tabulated below.

No	Player	R	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	D Elgar	0	3	SAF	Aus	Adelaide	24 Nov 2016
2	KC Brathwaite	0	2	Win	Eng	Birmingham	17 Aug 2017
3	H Masakadza	0	2	Zim	SAF	P Elizabeth	26 Dec 2017
4	MDKJ Perera	0	2	Srl	Win	Bridgetown	23 Jun 2018
5	DS Smith	0	3	Win	Srl	Bridgetown	23 Jun 2018
6	ML Udawatte	0	4	Srl	Win	Bridgetown	23 Jun 2018
7	Shadman Islam	0	3	Ban	Ind	Kolkata	22 Nov 2019
8	Imam-ul-Haq	0	3	Pak	Aus	Adelaide	29 Nov 2019
9	TWM Latham	0	2	NZl	Aus	Perth	12 Dec 2019
10	PP Shaw	0	1	Ind	Aus	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

It also provides the first occasion of an Indian opening batsman dismissed without scoring in a Pink Ball Test.

It also provides the first occasion of an opening batsman dismissed without scoring in the first innings of a Pink Ball Test.

It also provides the fourth occasion of an opening batsman dismissed without scoring in the Pink Ball Test against Australia

No	Player	R	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	D Elgar	0	3	SAF	Aus	Adelaide	24 Nov 2016
2	Imam-ul-Haq	0	3	Pak	Aus	Adelaide	29 Nov 2019
3	TWM Latham	0	2	NZl	Aus	Perth	12 Dec 2019
4	PP Shaw	0	1	Ind	Aus	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

PP Shaw became the second opening batsman to be dismissed by the second ball of the innings for a duck in a Pink Ball test after TWM Latham of New Zealand. TWM Latham was dismissed by the second ball of the innings for a duck against Australia at Perth in Dec 2019.

No	Player	R	BF	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	TWM Latham	0	2	2	NZl	Aus	Perth	12 Dec 2019
2	PP Shaw	0	2	1	Ind	Aus	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

India lost its first wicket without a run on the board in this test to provide the fifth occasion of a team losing its first wicket without a run on the board in an innings in a pink test. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	W/R	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	1/0	2	Win	Eng	Birmingham	17 Aug 2017
2	1/0	2	Zim	SAF	P Elizabeth	26 Dec 2017
3	1/0	2	Srl	Win	Bridgetown	23 Jun 2018
4	1/0	3	Ban	Ind	Kolkata	22 Nov 2019
5	1/0	1	Ind	Aus	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

V Kohli scored 74 in this test to provide the 15^th occasion of a captain scoring a fifty in a Pink Ball Test. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	R	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	SPD Smith	53	2	Aus	NZl	Adelaide	27 Nov 2015
2	F du Plessis	118*	1	SAF	Aus	Adelaide	24 Nov 2016
3	SPD Smith	59	2	Aus	SAF	Adelaide	24 Nov 2016
4	SPD Smith	130	1	Aus	Pak	Brisbane	15 Dec 2016
5	SPD Smith	63	3	Aus	Pak	Brisbane	15 Dec 2016
6	JE Root	136	1	Eng	Win	Birmingham	17 Aug 2017
7	LD Chandimal	62	1	Srl	Pak	Dub-DSC	06 Oct 2017
8	Sarfaraz Ahmed	68	4	Pak	Srl	Dub-DSC	06 Oct 2017
9	JE Root	67	4	Eng	Aus	Adelaide	02 Dec 2017
10	AB de Villiers	53	1	SAF	Zim	P Elizabeth	26 Dec 2017
11	KS Williamson	102	2	NZl	Eng	Auckland	22 Mar 2018
12	JE Root	51	3	Eng	NZl	Auckland	22 Mar 2018
13	JO Holder	74	1	Win	Srl	Bridgetown	23 Jun 2018
14	V Kohli	136	2	Ind	Ban	Kolkata	22 Nov 2019
15	V Kohli	74	1	Ind	Aus	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

V Kohli became the third captain to score fifty on two or more occasions in a Pink Ball Test after SPD Smith and JE Root. SPD Smith has scored fifties on four occasions, while JE Root has scored on three occasions.

No	Player	R	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	SPD Smith	53	2	Aus	NZl	Adelaide	27 Nov 2015
2	SPD Smith	59	2	Aus	SAF	Adelaide	24 Nov 2016
3	SPD Smith	130	1	Aus	Pak	Brisbane	15 Dec 2016
4	SPD Smith	63	3	Aus	Pak	Brisbane	15 Dec 2016

1	JE Root	136	1	Eng	Win	Birmingham	17 Aug 2017
2	JE Root	67	4	Eng	Aus	Adelaide	02 Dec 2017
3	JE Root	51	3	Eng	NZl	Auckland	22 Mar 2018

1	V Kohli	136	2	Ind	Ban	Kolkata	22 Nov 2019
2	V Kohli	74	1	Ind	Aus	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

V Kohli became the third captain to score a fifty against Australia in a Pink Ball Test after F du Plessis and JE Root.

No	Player	R	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	F du Plessis	118*	1	SAF	Aus	Adelaide	24 Nov 2016
2	JE Root	67	4	Eng	Aus	Adelaide	02 Dec 2017
3	V Kohli	74	1	Ind	Aus	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

V Kohli became the second captain to be dismissed run out after scoring a fifty in a Pink Ball Test after SPD Smith of Australia. SPD Smith was dismissed run out for 59 against South Africa at Adelaide in Nov 2016.

No	Player	R	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	SPD Smith	59	2	Aus	SAF	Adelaide	24 Nov 2016
2	V Kohli	74	1	Ind	Aus	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

V Kohli became the second captain to be dismissed run out in a Pink Ball Test after SPD Smith of Australia. SPD Smith was dismissed run out for 59 against South Africa at Adelaide in Nov 2016.

No	Player	R	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	SPD Smith	59	2	Aus	SAF	Adelaide	24 Nov 2016
2	V Kohli	74	1	Ind	Aus	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

V Kohli became the fifteenth batsman to be dismissed run out in a Pink Ball Test. He also became the fourth batsman to be dismissed run out in a Pink Ball Test against Australia

No	Player	R	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	Rahat Ali	4	2	Pak	Aus	Brisbane	15 Dec 2016
2	Yasir Shah	33	4	Pak	Aus	Brisbane	15 Dec 2016
3	Mohd Abbas	1	3	Pak	Aus	Adelaide	29 Nov 2019
4	V Kohli	74	1	Ind	Aus	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020

V Kohli’s run out for 74 in this game provides the 40^th occasion of an Indian batsman dismissed run out in an innings against Australia. It also provides the second occasion of his run out against Australia. Prior to this he was dismissed run out for 22 against Australia at Adelaide in Nov 2012. He became the seventh Indian batsman to be dismissed run out on two or more occasions in a test innings against Australia. Others are – SR Tendulkar {03}, SC Ganguly {03}, SMH Kirmani {02}, CA Pujara {02}, S Ramesh {02} and S Venkataraghavan {02}.

V Kohli’s run out for 74 in this game provides the sixth occasion of an Indian batsman dismissed run out in an innings after scoring a fifty against Australia.

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	R Dravid	180	3	Aus	Kolkata	11 Mar 2001
2	CA Pujara	123	1	Aus	Adelaide	06 Dec 2018
3	V Subramanya	75	4	Aus	Adelaide	23 Dec 1967
4	V Kohli	74	1	Aus	Adelaide	17 Dec 2020
5	M Kaif	64	2	Aus	Chennai	14 Oct 2004
6	NS Sidhu	62	1	Aus	Chennai	06 Mar 1998

V Kohli’s 74 in this game represent his tenth fifty against Australia in Australia. He became the second Indian batsman to score ten or more fifties against Australia in Australia after SR Tendulkar. SR Tendulkar has scored 13 fifties.

V Kohli’s 74 in this game represent his tenth fifty against Australia in Australia. He became the 16th batsman in the annals of test cricket to score ten or more fifties against Australia in Australia

V Kohli’s 74 in this game represent his sixth fifty against Australia in Australia while captaining India. He became the third captain in the annals of test cricket to score six or more fifties against Australia in Australia. Others are – CH Lloyd of West Indies {11} and AC Maclaren of England {06}

V Kohli’s 74 in this game represent his sixth fifty against Australia while captaining India. He became the third Indian captain in the annals of test cricket to score six or more fifties against Australia. Others are – MAK Pataudi {09} and MS Dhoni {06}

V Kohli’s 74 in this game provide the 50^th fifty of his test career. He became the 55^th batsman in the history of test cricket to score 50 fifties and also the eighth Indian batsman to achieve the feat.

No	Player	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	C	HC	50+
1	SR Tendulkar	200	329	33	15921	51	68	119
2	R Dravid	163	284	32	13265	36	63	99
3	SM Gavaskar	125	214	16	10122	34	45	79
4	VVS Laxman	134	225	34	08781	17	56	73
5	V Sehwag	103	178	06	08503	23	31	54
6	DB Vengsarkar	116	185	22	06868	17	35	52
7	SC Ganguly	113	188	17	07212	16	35	51
8	V Kohli	087	146	10	07314	27	23	50

PP Shaw was dismissed for a duck in this game to provide the 37^th occasion of an Indian opening batsman dismissed for a duck in a test innings against Australia. It also provides the 23rd occasion of an Indian opening batsman dismissed for a duck in a test innings against Australia in Australia.

PP Shaw was dismissed for a duck in this game to provide the 37^th occasion of an Indian opening batsman dismissed for a duck in a test innings against Australia at Adelaide. Others are MH Mankad in Jan 1948, DJ Gandhi in Dec 1999 and IK Pathan in Jan 2008

India lost its first wicket without a run on the board to provide the 20^th such occasion against Australia in a test innings. It also provides the 12^th such occasion against Australia in Australia and also the third such occasion in a test at Adelaide.

V Kohli’s run aggregate against Australia at Adelaide read 505 at the end of India’s first innings. He became the fourth batsman to total 500 plus runs in tests at Adelaide against Australia. Others are – BC Lara {610}, JB Hobbs {601} and IVA Richards {552}.

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