World Test Championship final, India vs New Zealand: Day 5 statistical highlights

Jun 23, 2021

World Test Championship final, India vs New Zealand: Day 5 statistical highlights Image

Test matches in the 21st century to have featured a scheduled sixth day’s cricket. The only Test match scheduled for six days, between Australia and the ICC World XI in 2005/06, did not go the distance. However, there have been two scheduled four-day Test matches, between South Africa and Zimbabwe, and India and Afghanistan.

46 wickets for Ishant Sharma on English soil, the most by an Indian bowler in a single country outside India and Australia. Ishant also stands with a chance to go past the wicket tally of Anil Kumble (49) and Kapil Dev (51) in Australia, the most for an Indian in any country away from home.

69 wickets for R Ashwin in the ICC World Test Championship now, the most by an Indian and the joint second-most overall. Ashwin needs 1 wicket to go past Stuart Broad (69) and 2 to beat Pat Cummins (70) and secure top spot.

75 sixes for Tim Southee. He is currently 15th on the list of six-hitters in Test cricket. The two sixes in the first innings took him past Ricky Ponting’s tally of 73. Among New Zealanders, only Brendon McCullum (107, the world record) and Chris Cairns (87) have hit more sixes.

306 wickets for Ishant in Test cricket. He needs 6 to go past Zaheer Khan (311) and become the fifth-highest wicket-taker for India in Test cricket.

7,178 runs for Kane Williamson. He went past Stephen Fleming’s tally of 7,172 runs today and became the second-highest run-scorer for New Zealand in Test cricket, after Ross Taylor (7,517).