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stampy wrote:is it a 4??

No way

Runout

another one gone, this is unreal test cricket at its best

out

locky801 wrote:another one gone, this is unreal test cricket at its best

agreed

Williamson you star

Great shot

moronic fielding placements

williamson, what a star

one required last ball

hows the drama!

what a finish

great finish

5 days of great test cricket, it aint dead people, test cricket at its best

well done both sides

billiant finish, drama right to the end

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/nz-v ... ts-1363379

0 - Balls remaining when New Zealand reached their target against Sri Lanka in Christchurch. This was only the second instance of a team reaching their target on the final ball of a Test match. England completed their chase of 128 against South Africa in Durban in 1948 on the last possible ball of the Test. England needed eight runs to win in the final over (eight-ball overs were in effect), which they achieved with a leg bye on the last ball.

3 - Test wins for New Zealand with a margin of two or fewer wickets, including this result. They defeated West Indies by one wicket in 1980 in Dunedin and won by two wickets against Pakistan at the same venue five years later. This is also the first time Sri Lanka lost a Test match by a margin of two or fewer wickets.

4 - Fourth-innings hundreds for Kane Williamson in Test cricket, the joint-second most by any batter in this format. Younis Khan leads the list with five fourth-innings tons, while four other batters have four centuries each - Sunil Gavaskar, Ricky Ponting, Ramnaresh Sarwan and Graeme Smith.

3 - Number of hundreds out of Williamson's four in the fourth innings of a Test match to have come in successful chases. Only Graeme Smith has more - all his four fourth-innings centuries resulted in wins, while Ricky Ponting also has three.

55.31 - Williamson's fourth-innings average in Test cricket. Only three batters with 750-plus runs in the fourth innings have a higher average. Williamson has scored 885 runs with four centuries and four fifties across the 23 times he has batted in the fourth innings.

285 - New Zealand's target at the Hagley Oval, their third-highest successful chase in Test cricket. New Zealand's highest chase was 324 against Pakistan in 1994, at Lancaster Park in Christchurch, followed by a 317-run chase against Bangladesh in 2008 in Chattogram. The 285-run chase is also the fourth-highest successful chase for a team in New Zealand.

3 - Number of higher targets successfully chased against Sri Lanka in Test cricket than New Zealand's 285-run chase here. All those were chases of 300-run-plus targets by Pakistan, including a 342-run target last year in Galle.

4052 - Test runs for Williamson in New Zealand. He is the only batter with 4000-plus Test runs for New Zealand at home. His average of 64.31 is the fourth-highest for any batter to have scored 4000 Test runs at home.

2nd Test between New Zealand and The Lankans

New Zealand batting and are 1/114
Conway 78*

N/Z 2/155 at stumps, rain affected day

Conway 78
Williamson 26*

Another ton for Williamson

3 tests in a row scoring a ton

Armchair expert wrote:Another ton for Williamson

3 tests in a row scoring a ton

A bit like Joe Root, gives away the Captaincy and the runs flow

NZ absolutely taking the piss 2/443 at Tea day

Williamson 189*
Nicholls 130*