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Statistical highlights of the opening day's play in the first Test between India and New Zealand [Images] at Hamilton on Wednesday.
186 runs added by Jesse Ryder [Images] and Daniel Vettori [Images] -- highest seventh-wicket partnership for New Zealand against India.
181 Guptill's catch, off the bowling of Zaheer Khan [Images], was Rahul Dravid's [Images] 181st catch in Test cricket. It put him level with Australia's [Images] Mark Waugh [Images]. Dravid had the chance to surpass Waugh, but he spilled a chance offered by Vettori in slips.
60 New Zealand's total at the fall of the sixth wicket. The last four, however, added 219!
40.42 Vettori's batting average at number 8-- highest by any batsman with at least 50 innings at this position.
4 Number of Indian wicketkeepers with 100 or more dismissals. Dhoni [Images] joined Syed Kirmani, Kiran More and Nayan Mongia.
3 Jesse Ryder became only the third Kiwi batsman to score a hundred in his debut innings against India after John Guy and Bruce Taylor.
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