KS Williamson scored 88 and 71 in the ongoing test against Sri Lanka at Dunedin to provide the fifth occasion of his scoring twin fifties in a test. He became the third New Zealand batsman to achieve such a feat after SP Fleming and LRPL Taylor

It is noted with interest that all the three batsmen have scored at least one century and a half century in their five twin fifties. SP Fleming and KS Williamson has two such performances while LRPL Taylor has one such performance.

SP Fleming and KS Williamson have scored a double century and a half century in their five twin fifties, while LRPL Taylor has rare twin half centuries – an identical score of 76 in both innings of a test – against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo in Nov 2011

SP Fleming scored 274 not out and 69 not out against Sri Lanka at Col-PSS in Apr 2003,  while KS Williamson emulated SP Fleming by scoring 69 and 242 not out at Wellington in Jan 2015 against the same opposition – that is Sri Lanka

No	Player	FI	SI	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	SP Fleming	79	53	v South Africa	Cape Town	02 Jan 1995
2	SP Fleming	78	174*	v Sri Lanka	Colombo (RPS)	27 May 1998
3	SP Fleming	57	99	v South Africa	Bloemfontein	17 Nov 2000
4	SP Fleming	274*	69*	v Sri Lanka	Colombo (PSS)	25 Apr 2003
5	SP Fleming	59	66	v England	Napier	22 Mar 2008
1	LRPL Taylor	53	55	v England	Wellington	13 Mar 2008
2	LRPL Taylor	94	59	v Pakistan	Dunedin	24 Nov 2009
3	LRPL Taylor	78	52	v Pakistan	Wellington	15 Jan 2011
4	LRPL Taylor	76	76	v Zimbabwe	Bulawayo	01 Nov 2011
5	LRPL Taylor	142	74	v Sri Lanka	Colombo (PSS)	25 Nov 2012
1	KS Williamson	114	74	v Bangladesh	Chittagong	09 Oct 2013
2	KS Williamson	58	56	v West Indies	Hamilton	19 Dec 2013
3	KS Williamson	69	242*	v Sri Lanka	Wellington	03 Jan 2015
4	KS Williamson	140	59	v Australia	Brisbane	05 Nov 2015
5	KS Williamson	88	71	v Sri Lanka	Dunedin	10 Dec 2015