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Records made till day 5 of WTC final:
Kane Stuart Williamson – led New Zealand team and Virat Kohli – led India team; both were struggling hard till the day 5 of World Test Championship played at Rose Bowl, Southampton on June 22, Tuesday.Records made till day 5 of WTC final are discussed in this article.
New Zealand team resumed the day 5 with the score of 101 at the loss of 2 wickets.
Pacer of Team India performed excellently and picked up 4 and gave away 72 runs.
New Zealand players completed their first innings and made the score of 249 runs taking the lead of 32 runs.
Pacer of Team India performed excellently and picked up 4 and gave away 72 runs.
Till the end of day 5 team India was playing its second inning and scored 64 runs with the loss of both the openers.
Both the openers – Shubham Gill and Rohit Sharma were dismissed by Tim Southee.
Captain Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara resumed the match on next day that is June 23 , Wednesday.
Some important stats and records made till day 5 of WTC final:
Tim Southee’s records made till day 5 of WTC final:
- Tim Southee completed 600 wickets while playing this match. Daniel Vettori has completed his 705 wickets and he is on the first rank in the list of bowlers with the number of wickets. Tim Southee has attained second position in this regard.
Ravi Ashwin’s records made till day 5 of WTC final:
- Ravi Ashwin picked up 2 wickets in this match and he completed his 69 wickets in World Test Championship. He is sharing second position with Stuart Broad in the list of bowlers with highest numbers of wickets pickets while playing in WTC. Pat Cummins is on the top of the list with 70 wickets.
- After picking 2 wickets in this match Ravi Ashwin has completed his 281 Test wickets while playing under the captaincy of Virat Kohli. He has now attained second position in the list of players who picked wickets while playing under the same captain. He surpassed Makhaya Ntini , who has picked up 280 wickets while playing under the captaincy of Graeme Smith in South Africa team. Dale Steyn is on the top position in the table as he picked up 347 wickets while playing under Graeme Smith.
Ishant Sharma’s records made till day 5 of WTC final:
- Ishant Sharma picked up 3 wickets while playing this match. He completed his 46 Test wickets on the field of England and attained the top position in the list of Indian bowlers who picked the wickets while playing in England. He surpassed Kapil Dev who has picked up 43 wickets while playing on the land known as father of cricket.
Ross Taylor’s records made till day 5 of WTC final
- Ross Taylor become the first player of New Zealand to complete 18000 runs in International cricket by scoring 11 runs while playing this match.
Mohammad Shami’s records made till day 5 of WTC final
- Mohammad Shami picked up 4 wickets and gave away 76 runs in this Test. He achieved great success of becoming first Indian bowler to pick 4 wickets in final of ICC match. Mohinder Amarnath picked up 3 wickets and gave away 12 runs while playing against West Indies in World Cup 1983. Mohinder Amarnath is the Indian bowler who was at top position but now surpassed by Shami.
Kane Williamson’s records made till day 5 of WTC final
- Kane Williamson has completed his 7178 runs in this match and surpassed Stephen Fleming who has completed 7172 Test and attain the second position among New Zealand players in the list of top run-scorers in Test match. Ross Taylor is one the top position as he has completed 7517 Test runs.
- Kane Williamson was able to smash only 15 runs in the first 100 balls. Runs made by him are the lowest runs up till now in first innings of WTC.
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