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Harry gets fifty while Wellington players attack the record books Francis Payne - 6 March 2001
New Zealand's one-day season came to an end on a successful note at Dunedin. It was the 27th one-dayer which New Zealand had played since taking on Pakistan at Singapore on 20 August. Nine wins were recorded, 17 matches were lost and one game ended in a no result. Despite the low success ratio, however, New Zealand could still point to victory at the ICC Knockout in Kenya plus a meritorious 3-2 series win against Pakistan. The series victory against Pakistan was a welcome relief after a string of series losses. Since defeating West Indies 5-0 early in 1999/00, New Zealand had lost five successive series to Australia (1-4), Zimbabwe twice (both 1-2), South Africa (0-5) and Sri Lanka (1-4).
In recent weeks we've been charting Chris Harris's progress on the all-time not outs list. In the fifth one-dayer at Carisbrook Harris was unbeaten when the winning runs were scored, registering his 50th not out in One-Day Internationals. He is only the third player to achieve this milestone as the following table illustates:
New Zealand's win in the fourth one-dayer at Christchurch was one of their biggest and their first by 100 runs or more against a Test-playing nation for 10 years. The biggest wins by runs are:
New Zealand's successful victory chase at Dunedin was also one of their all-time best and by far their highest successful chase in New Zealand. The highest innings by New Zealand batting second are:
Nathan Astle reached his ninth One-Day International century at Dunedin from just 93 balls. The fastest one-day hundreds for New Zealand are now:
Astle, along with Stephen Fleming, broke several New Zealand partnerships records with their opening stand at Dunedin. They began with the highest first wicket stand against Pakistan (previously 155 by Astle and Bryan Young at Mohali in 1996/97) and then the highest first wicket partnership against all countries (previously 158 by Martin Crowe and Andrew Jones against Bangladesh at Sharjah in 1989/90).
Their final partnership was worth 193 - the highest for any wicket for New Zealand beating 180 for the third wicket between Adam Parore and Ken Rutherford against India at Baroda in 1994/95. The highest stands for each wicket for New Zealand are now:
The highest partnerships in one-dayers for New Zealand for any wicket are:
In the Shell Trophy, David Kelly hit 212 against Canterbury at Blenheim. This was just the seventh double century for Central Districts since they became a first-class side in 1950/51 and the second highest. The highest innings for CD are now:
Wellington's Iain O'Brien, who ironically only got his chance in the team when Matthew Walker was suspended, has joined a very short list indeed. With Wellington still to play Pakistan later this month, O'Brien has the chance to become the highest wicket taker in his first season of first-class cricket.
The table of best returns in season of first-class debut currently stands as follows:
"Wallie" Lankham's extraordinary figures and his subsequent tragic demise make a fascinating tale on their own - something we'll save for another day.
One thing which O'Brien did not achieve was a wicket with his first ball in first-class cricket. However, in the final Shell Trophy match of the season, team-mate and opening batsman Richard Jones (who made his debut back in 1993/94) accomplished the feat when he dismissed Grant Bradburn with a rank full toss. The match concluded at that stage leaving Jones with career figures of 0.1-0-0-1.
The only New Zealanders to take a wicket with their first ball in first-class cricket are:
One record which did not quite fall in the Wellington versus Northern Districts game (but probably should have) was that for most wicket-keeping dismissals in a season. During the match, Chris Nevin equalled the record of 41 but late in Northern's second innings relinquished the gloves, first to Andrew Penn and then to Mark Jefferson who proceeded to drop a catch, while, ironically, Nevin took a catch at square leg to give Richard Jones a wicket with his first ball.
Subsequently, Nevin did set a new season's mark when he caught Saleem Elahi playing for New Zealand A against Pakistan at Lincoln a few days later and at the end of that match had extended his tally to 44 victims for the season. With Wellington due to play Pakistan later in the month, Nevin has the opportunity to become the first player to make 50 dismissals in one season. His tally of 44 catches so far (45 in all) is already well in excess of anything ever achieved in New Zealand first-class cricket.
The current standings are:
Finally, it's back to the One-Day Internationals and the complete averages for all 27 matches played by New Zealand this season. Only Craig McMillan and Stephen Fleming played in every game while Roger Twose, Chris Harris, Nathan Astle and Adam Parore missed just one. A total of 24 players were involved.
Name O M R W Ave Best RPO
DR Tuffey 78 4 397 18 22.05 4-24 5.08
CD McMillan 75 3 368 15 24.53 3-20 4.90
PJ Wiseman 25 0 139 5 27.80 4-45 5.56
SB O'Connor 74.4 4 398 13 30.61 5-46 5.33
GP Sulzberger 22 0 102 3 34.00 1-28 4.63
JEC Franklin 99 5 482 14 34.42 3-44 4.86
NJ Astle 137 7 629 18 34.94 3-7 4.59
JDP Oram 38 1 186 5 37.20 2-20 4.89
DL Vettori 104 6 430 10 43.00 3-21 4.13
GI Allott 70 2 397 9 44.11 3-33 5.67
CZ Harris 201.5 6 867 19 45.63 2-31 4.29
SB Styris 129 4 628 12 52.33 3-36 4.86
CS Martin 54 4 270 5 54.00 2-56 5.00
CL Cairns 73.5 5 411 7 58.71 2-62 5.56
BGK Walker 26 3 128 2 64.00 2-43 4.92
AJ Penn 4 1 29 0 - - 7.25
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