Stats: Australia vs New Zealand, 2nd Test Day Three - Record-breaking Ross Taylor

Ross Taylor's records his highest First-class score

Ross Taylor’s highest Test score and Kane Williamson’s 12th Test hundred helped New Zealand end day three of the second Test at the WACA just 49 runs behind Australia’s mammoth first innings score of 559.

Starting the day on 140/2, the pair put on 265 runs for the third wicket as they pummelled the Australian attack to all corners of the WACA. Mitchell Starc, who was the pick of the Aussie bowlers, delivered the second-fastest ball in Tests.

His yorker to Taylor was recorded at 160.4 kmph and was only slightly slower than Jeff Thomson’s delivery at the WACA against West Indies four decades ago. But that was the only positive for the hosts as they dropped two catches and fail to put pressure on the Kiwi batsmen.

Here are some of the records that were broken on the third day.

1 – Kane Williamson is the first Kiwi batsman to score more than one century in a Test series in Australia.

2 – This was the second 250+ third wicket stand by Williamson and Taylor. Only one pair (Kallis and Amla) have shared more 250+ stands (3) for the third wicket.

3 – Taylor’s double hundred off 254 balls was the third-fastest by a Kiwi batsman after Astle (153) and McCullum (186). It was also the 24^th fastest double ton in Tests.

4 – Only four visiting batsman have scored more than Taylor’s 235* in Australia and all of them have been in Sydney. The highest is by England’s R Foster, who got 287.

5 – Taylor is the fifth Kiwi batsman and the second-fastest (behind Crowe) to cross 5,000 Test runs.

9 – 9 out of Williamson’s 12 Test hundreds have come away from New Zealand. Since his debut in 2010, Alastair Cook is the only other batsman to score 9 away Test tons.

12 – This was Williamson’s 12^th Test hundred. Only Sachin Tendulkar (16) and Don Bradman (13) have scored more centuries at Williamson’s age.

235* – Ross Taylor‘s score is the highest by a NZ batsman against Australia in Tests, beating Martin Crowe’s 188. It is also the third-highest at the WACA.

265 – The third wicket partnership between Williamson and Taylor was the highest for any wicket by a Kiwi pair against Australia beating the 253-run partnership between Nathan Astle and Adam Parore, which was also at Perth.

2,188 – Partnerships between Taylor and Williamson have yielded 2,188 runs in 42 innings at an average of 57.57, which is the most by any Kiwi pair beating Nathan Astle and Stephen Fleming’s record of 1,951 runs.