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Beim zweiten Test in Napier hat das New Zealand Cricket-Team einen hervorragenden Start hingelegt. Nach zwei Tagen steht der Score im ersten «Innings» für die Blackcaps bei 619 für 9 (610 runs for 9 wickets). Hervorragendes «batting» von Ryder (201), Taylor (151), McCullum (115), Vettori (55) und Franklin (52) waren die Grundlage für diesen «Mammut Innings».

Da wie im Baseball, auch im Cricket ohne Statistiken «nichts» geht hat diese hervorragende Leistung ein paar interessante Resultate zu Tage gebracht, welche ich euch in der Originalversion natürlich nicht vorenthalten will:

• New Zealand's total of 619 for 9 declared is their third-highest in Tests, and only the third time they've topped 600. It's the fifth 600-plus score in New Zealand, and the first in ten years.
• It's the 12th time a team has scored 600-plus in the first innings against India. Of the 11 previous occasions, India have lost seven games and drawn four. The last time it happened was against Sri Lanka in Colombo last year, when India lost by an innings and 239 runs.
• There were three or more centuries in an innings for New Zealand for only the fifth time in Tests.
• Jesse Ryder's double-century was the first by a New Zealander since Stephen Fleming's 262 against South Africa in Cape Town nearly three years ago. That was also the last time New Zealand batted more than 150 overs in an innings.
• Harbhajan Singh averages 53.82 in the first innings of overseas Test. In 18 innings he has taken 29 wickets.

New Zealand batting I 2nd Test, 2nd Day, Napier


New Zealand batting II, 2nd Test, 2nd Day, Napier