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New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat first to provides the 39^th occasion of New Zealand doing so against England. It also provides the sixth occasion of New Zealand doing so against England at Lord’s

New Zealand capped DP Conway for this test. He became the 280th cricketer to appear in tests for New Zealand. He also became the 100th New Zealand Cricketer to make his test debut against England. He also became the 17^th New Zealand cricketer to make his test debut against England at Lords’

DP Conway became the 219^th cricketer to make his test debut at Lord’s and also the 114^th visiting cricketer to make his test debut at Lord’s

He also became the 54^th opening batsman to make his test debut and also became the 18^th New Zealand opening batsman to make his test debut against England. He also became the third New Zealand opening batsman to make his test debut against England at Lord’s.

England capped JR Bracey and OE Robinson for this test. They became the 692^nd and 693^rd cricketers to represent England in tests. They also became the 57^th and 58th England cricketers to make their test debut against New Zealand. They also became 15^th and England cricketers to make their test debut against New Zealand at Lord’s.

JR Bracey became the 250^th wicket keeper batsman to make his test debut in the annals of test cricket. He became the 62^nd England wicket keeper batsman to make his test debut. He became the sixth England wicket keeper batsman to make his test debut against New Zealand.

He became the sixth England wicket keeper batsman to make his test debut at Lord’s and also the first England wicket keeper batsman to make his test debut against New Zealand at Lord’s. He also became the 17^th wicket keeper batsman to make his test debut in the annals of test cricket to make his debut at Lord’s.

KS Williamson was dismissed for 13 in New Zealand’s first innings to provides the 151st occasion of a captain dismissed for a score of 13 in the annals of test cricket. It also provides the 32nd occasion of captain to be dismissed for a score of 13 in a test innings against England.

It also provides the 18^th occasion of a New Zealand captain dismissed for a score of 13 in a test innings. It also provides the eighth occasion of a New Zealand captain dismissed for a score of 13 in a test innings against England.

It also provides the ninth occasion of captain dismissed for a score of 13 in a test innings at Lord’s. It also provides the third occasion of a visiting captain scoring 13 in a test innings at Lord’s.

It also provides the second occasion of a New Zealand captain scoring 13 against England at Lord’s. The first such occasion was – ML Page scoring 13 in Jun 1937.

DP Conway scored 136 not out at the end of the first day’s play to provides the 111th occasion of a batsman scoring a century on test debut. It also provides the 12th occasion of New Zealand batsman scoring a century on test debut.

It also provides the 26th occasion of a batsman scoring a century on test debut against England. It also provides the fourth occasion of New Zealand batsman scoring a century on test debut against England.

DP Conway became the sixth batsman to score a century on test debut  at Lord’s. The following table lists all the six batsmen.

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	H Graham	107	2	Aus	Eng	Lord’s	17 Jul 1893
2	JH Hampshire	107	2	Eng	Win	Lord’s	26 Jun 1969
3	SC Ganguly	131	2	Ind	Eng	Lord’s	20 Jun 1996
4	AJ Strauss	112	2	Eng	NZl	Lord’s	20 May 2004
5	MJ Prior	126*	1	Eng	Win	Lord’s	17 May 2007
6	DP Conway	136*	1	NZl	Eng	Lord’s	02 Jun 2021

It also provides the third occasion of a visiting batsman scoring a century on test debut at Lord’s and also against England at Lord’s. It also provides the first occasion of New Zealand batsman scoring a century on test debut at Lord’s and also against England at Lord’s. The three occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Runs	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	H Graham	107	2	Aus	Eng	Lord’s	17 Jul 1893
2	SC Ganguly	131	2	Ind	Eng	Lord’s	20 Jun 1996
3	DP Conway	136*	1	NZl	Eng	Lord’s	02 Jun 2021

DP Conway’s 136 not out represents the highest score by a debutant batsman at Lord’s. The previous best was SC Ganguly’s 131 in Jun 1996

It also provides the 28^th occasion of a left hand batsman scoring a century on debut. It also provides the 13th occasion of a left hand opening batsman scoring a century on debut.

It also provides the seventh occasion of a left hand New Zealand batsman scoring a century on debut. It also provides the fourth occasion of a left hand New Zealand opening batsman scoring a century on debut.

It also provides the third occasion of a left hand batsman scoring a century on debut at Lord’s. It also provides the second occasion of a left hand opening batsman scoring a century on debut at Lord’s.

It also provides the first occasion of a left hand New Zealand batsman scoring a century on debut at Lord’s. It also provides the first occasion of a left hand New Zealand opening batsman scoring a century on debut at Lord’s

If a quiz “Who holds the Indian record for most boundary sixes in his test career” is asked, most cricket lovers will credit the record to SR Tendulkar, which is very obvious considering the fact that he holds many records. But SR Tendulkar does not hold this record. It is credited to V Sehwag who has scored 90 boundary sixes. SR Tendulkar has scored 69 boundary sixes and occupies the third place in the list of Indian batsmen who have scored most sixes in their test career. MS Dhoni occupies the second place with 78 boundary sixes. The following table lists the seven Indian batsmen who have scored 50 plus boundary sixes in their test career.

No	Player	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	6s
1	V Sehwag	103	178	06	08503	319	90
2	MS Dhoni	090	144	16	04876	224	78
3	Tendulkar	200	329	33	15921	248*	69
4	N Kapil Dev	131	184	15	05248	163	61
5	RG Sharma	038	064	08	02615	212	59
6	SC Ganguly	113	188	17	07212	239	57
7	RA Jadeja	051	073	19	01954	100*	50

This is how V Sehwag scored his 90 boundary sixes. The table is arranged in the descending order of boundary sixes. Only the test innings in which he has scored boundary sixes are shown.

No	Runs	6s	Pos	I	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	293	7	2	2	Srl	Mum-BS	02 Dec 2009
2	309	6	2	1	Pak	Multan	28 Mar 2004
3	195	5	2	1	Aus	Melbourne	26 Dec 2003
4	319	5	2	2	SAF	Chennai	26 Mar 2008
5	201*	4	2	1	Srl	Galle	31 Jul 2008
6	83	4	2	4	Eng	Chennai	11 Dec 2008
7	147	3	2	1	Win	Mumbai	09 Oct 2002
8	61	3	2	2	Win	Chennai	17 Oct 2002
9	33	2	2	4	Win	Chennai	17 Oct 2002
10	130	2	2	2	NZl	Mohali	16 Oct 2003
11	164	2	1	2	SAF	Kanpur	20 Nov 2004
12	88	2	1	2	SAF	Kolkata	28 Nov 2004
13	173	2	2	2	Pak	Mohali	08 Mar 2005
14	201	2	2	2	Pak	Bengaluru	24 Mar 2005
15	180	2	2	1	Win	Gros Islet	10 Jun 2006
16	151	2	1	3	Aus	Adelaide	24 Jan 2008
17	17	2	1	3	SAF	Ahmedabad	03 Apr 2008
18	22	2	2	4	SAF	Kanpur	11 Apr 2008
19	131	2	2	1	Srl	Kanpur	24 Nov 2009
20	165	2	2	2	SAF	Kolkata	14 Feb 2010
21	55	2	2	4	Win	Delhi	06 Nov 2011
22	20	1	7	2	Eng	Ahmedabad	11 Dec 2001
23	84	1	2	2	Eng	Lord’s	25 Jul 2002
24	29	1	2	1	NZl	Ahmedabad	08 Oct 2003
25	72	1	2	1	Aus	Sydney	02 Jan 2004
26	39	1	2	1	Pak	Lahore	05 Apr 2004
27	44	1	2	2	Zim	Bulawayo	13 Sep 2005
28	254	1	1	2	Pak	Lahore	13 Jan 2006
29	76*	1	2	4	Eng	Mohali	09 Mar 2006
30	41	1	2	3	Win	St John’s	02 Jun 2006
31	40	1	7	1	SAF	Cape Town	02 Jan 2007
32	50	1	2	3	Srl	Galle	31 Jul 2008
33	66	1	1	1	Aus	Nagpur	06 Nov 2008
34	92	1	1	3	Aus	Nagpur	06 Nov 2008
35	34	1	2	2	NZl	Napier	26 Mar 2009
36	48	1	2	1	NZl	Wellington	03 Apr 2009
37	45	1	2	3	Ban	Chattogram	17 Jan 2010
38	109	1	2	2	Srl	Galle	18 Jul 2010
39	30	1	2	2	Aus	Bengaluru	09 Oct 2010
40	173	1	2	1	NZl	Ahmedabad	04 Nov 2010
41	96	1	2	2	NZl	Hyd-RGS	12 Nov 2010
42	54*	1	2	4	NZl	Hyd-RGS	12 Nov 2010
43	74	1	2	2	NZl	Nagpur	20 Nov 2010
44	63	1	2	3	SAF	Centurion	16 Dec 2010
45	37	1	2	2	Win	Mumbai	22 Nov 2011
46	38	1	2	4	NZl	Bengaluru	31 Aug 2012
47	117	1	2	1	Eng	Ahmedabad	15 Nov 2012
48	25	1	1	4	Eng	Ahmedabad	15 Nov 2012
	Total	90