Gautam Gambhir has taken 398 minutes to complete his hundred, fifth slowest by an Indian in an away Test. Gambhir also became only the third Indian left-hander to complete 2,000 runs in Test cricket after Sourav Ganguly (7,212 runs in 113 Tests) and Ajit Wadekar (2,113 runs in 37 Tests). Gambhir became only the second Indian opener to score a hundred on New Zealand soil after Sunil Gavaskar, who made 116 at Auckland in 1975-76.
Rahul Dravid’s scoring-rate was 28.18(runs per 100 balls) during his innings of 62, the slowest he has batted in an innings of 50 or more. Rahul Dravid has hit a six in Test cricket after 22 months. He had last hit a six against Bangladesh at Dhaka in May 2007. 10 times Dravid has scored at least a fifty in both innings of a Test. He beats Sunil Gavaskar’s Indian record of making a fifty-plus score in both innings of a Test on most occasions.
India’s run-rate in the day was 2.27. They scored 205 runs in the 90 overs. India lost only 1 wicket in the full day’s play.
