Hamilton- The Ground at which Brendon McCullum played his debut Test match against South Africa on 10 March 2004- he scored 76 in that match. He is playing his record-breaking match at the same ground.

4- Number of players above Bredon McCullum with most consecutive Tests not necessarily from debut- Alan Border (153), Alastair Cook (120), Mark Waugh (107) and Sunil Gavaskar (106) are the four players above McCullum (99).

64.75- the batting average of Angelo Mathews when captaining the side- which is in contrast to the 39.71 he holds when he is not captain. He has struck 6 centuries in 46 innings as captain and only 1 in 50 innings when not captain.

2005- The last time a Sri Lankan captain other than Mathews went past 50 runs in a Test innings in New Zealand- Marvan Atapattu scored 127 at Napier in April 2005- which is the only test century by a Sri Lankan captain on New Zealand soil. Mathews’ 63* in this match is the 4th highest score by a Sri Lankan captain in New Zealand.

0- Sri Lankan captains other than Mathews to hit more than 1 six in tests in New Zealand. Mathews has done it twice- 3 sixes in this match and 2 at Christchurch in December last year.

10- Number of sixes Angelo Mathews has hit in Tests against New Zealand- 2nd most for him against any team after Pakistan (11). New Zealand is the only team against which he has hit more sixes than tests played.

26- Number of sixes Mathews has struck in his test career when playing as captain- which are the most for any Sri Lankan Captain- Arjuna Ranatunga (25) and Jayasuriya, Jayawardene (19 each) are next on the list.

897 – Runs Dinesh Chandimal has scored in Tests this year- most among all Asian players in 2015. Angelo Mathews (829) and Younis Khan (789) are next on the list. Overall he is the 7th highest run-getter in tests this year.

110 – Fours struck by Chandimal in Tests this year- which are also the most by any Asian player in this year. His 7 fifty plus scores in this year are only joint equal to Misbah ul Haq’s 7 such scores in the Asian list.

21.80- Sri Lanka’s opening stand’s average in the year 2015- which is 2nd worst after West indies’ 14.50 (for this year). They have put on only 2 fifty-plus opening stands in 2015- 2nd fewest for any team this year after West Indies, who are yet to score their first.

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