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Statistical highlights of the opening day's play in the first Test between India and New Zealand at Hamilton on Wednesday.
186 runs added by Jesse Ryder and Daniel Vettori -- highest seventh-wicket partnership for New Zealand against India.
181 Guptill's catch, off the bowling of Zaheer Khan, was Rahul Dravid's 181st catch in Test cricket. It put him level with Australia's Mark Waugh. 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 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.