KS Williamson and LRPL Taylor share the New Zealand record of scoring twin fifties on most occasions

KS Williamson and LRPL Taylor share the New Zealand record of scoring twin fifties on most occasions

LRPL Taylor scored 124 not out and 67 not out and KS Williamson scored 113 and 68 not out in the ongoing test against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo to provide the sixth occasion of these two batsmen scoring twin fifties in a test. LRPL Taylor and KS Williamson now share the record for most occasions of a New Zealand batsmen scoring twin fifties in test. They went past SP Fleming who held the previous record with five such occasions. The following table list the performance of these three batsmen

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 1 Nov 2011
5 LRPL Taylor 142 74 v Sri Lanka Colombo (PSS) 25 Nov 2012
6 LRPL Taylor 124* 67* v Zimbabwe Bulawayo 06 Aug 2016
             
1 KS Williamson 114 74 v Bangladesh Chittagong 9 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
6 KS Williamson 113 68* v Zimbabwe Bulawayo 06 Aug 2016

 

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