Statistical highlights at the end of the first cricket Test between India and New Zealand at Eden Park, here today.
* India (366) have recorded their highest fourth innings total against New Zealand in Tests and seventh highest overall.
* The score is India’s fourth highest losing total in Tests — their only total of 400 being 445 against Australia at Adelaide in January 1978.
* Neil Wagner (eight for 126) recorded his best bowling figures in a Test match, surpassing the seven for 116 vs Bangladesh at Mirpur in October last year.
* New Zealand’s 40-run victory is their first in five Tests against India at Eden Park, Auckland. The said win is their narrowest victory margin in terms of runs against India in Tests, eclipsing the 62-run win at Wellington in February 1981. New Zealand’s victory is their 10th in 49 Tests at Eden Park — lost 15 & drawn 24.
* New Zealand have won 10 and lost 18 out of 53 contested against India in Tests — success % 18.86 (Drawn 25). Their tally includes eight wins in New Zealand and two in India.
* After beating West Indies by 63 runs at Kingston in 2011, India are without a victory in their last thirteen overseas Tests.
* India have lost 10 out of the last 11 overseas Tests contested. They have lost 11 Tests away from home under Dhoni’s leadership out of 22 contested (won five and drawn six) — the most under one skipper, surpassing the 10 Tests each lost under the captaincies of Nawab of Pataudi, Mohammad Azharuddin and Sourav Ganguly.
* New Zealand have beaten India in a Test match for the first time since 2002.
* New Zealand speedsters have captured all twenty wickets in a Test match 12 times.
* Virat Kohli (67) recorded his ninth Test fifty — his third vs New Zealand — his highest in the fourth innings.