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Stats Analysis

NZ's lower-order fight, and Pakistan's collapse

Stats highlights from the first ODI between New Zealand and Pakistan in Wellington

Bharath Seervi
25-Jan-2016
Pakistan and New Zealand's innings in two halves, in the Wellington ODI, January 25, 2016

Pakistan were dominant in the first 25 overs with both bat and ball, but New Zealand fought back superbly  •  ESPNcricinfo Ltd

181 Runs added by New Zealand after they had lost their sixth wicket - they moved from 99 for 6 to 280 for 8. It is the most runs added by them after being six down in ODIs. There are only five instances of teams adding more for the last four wickets in ODI history.
0 Number of previous occasions of a team's Nos. 8, 9 and 10 all scoring 30 or more in an ODI. In New Zealand's innings, Mitchell Santner and Matt Henry scored 48 each while Mitchell McClenaghan made 31. This is the first time a team has had two partnerships of 70 or more for the seventh wicket or later. Henry Nicholls and Santner added 79 for the seventh wicket, while Henry and McClenaghan put on unbeaten 73 runs for the ninth.
171 Runs added by New Zealand in the last 25 overs of the innings, for the loss of two wickets; they made 109 for six in the first 25. Pakistan's innings moved in the opposite direction after 25 overs: from 111 for two, they collapsed to 210 all out. While New Zealand added 181 runs after being six down, Pakistan added 40.
16 Consecutive ODI innings, before this match, in which at least one of New Zealand's top-three scored 25 or more. In this match, Martin Cuptill and Tom Latham made 11 each and Kane Williamson fell for 10. The last such top-order failure for New Zealand was in the final of the 2015 World Cup. In the 16 innings between these two occurrences, there was at least one fifty by one of the top three in 14 games.
13.27 The partnership run rate for the ninth wicket between McClenaghan and Henry. There have been only three instances of better run rates for 50-plus stands for this wicket in ODIs (where ball-by-ball data is available).
29 Matches by Trent Boult to reach 50 wickets in his ODI career. Among the 27 New Zealand bowlers who have taken 50 or more wickets, only three have done it in fewer matches than Boult: McClenaghan (23), Shane Bond (27) and Geoff Allott (28). Boult's average of 22.47 is third best among New Zealand bowlers with 50 or more wickets. His 4 for 40 in this match are his second-best figures in ODIs.
4 Wins for New Zealand after losing their first six wickets for less than 100 when batting first, out of 41 such instances. Their last such win was in 2008 against England in Bristol .
23* The previous highest score for Henry Nicholls, in four ODI innings. He had batted at No. 5 in those innings, but made the most of the opportunity to bat one slot higher this time. This is the first 50-plus score by a New Zealand batsman other than Ross Taylor at that slot since January 2013.
0 Scores of 50 or more in his last ten ODI innings for Azhar Ali, in which he has made 258 runs. In his previous 19 innings he had nine 50-plus scores and had become the quickest Asian batsman to aggregate 1000 runs in ODIs.
4 Half-centuries for Babar Azam in his ODI career of eight innings. However, he hasn't yet gone past 62. His four 50-plus scores are 54, 62*, 51 and 62.

Bharath Seervi is stats sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo. @SeerviBharath