Stats: Australia vs New Zealand, 2nd Test Day One - Records aplenty for David Warner

David Warner's highest First-class score put New Zealand to the sword

It was another harrowing day in the field for New Zealand as David Warner’s career-best Test score and Usman Khawaja’s second hundred in as many Tests put Australia in complete control after day one of the second Test at the WACA.

It was deja vu for the Kiwis as they lost the toss and their bowlers wilted under the onslaught by Warner, just like the first Test in Brisbane. With Warner still at the crease, it is going to take a monumental effort from Brendon McCullum’s side to take anything away from the match.

Over the course of the first day, plenty of records were shattered, here is a quick compilation of them, which shows just how much in command, Australia were.

1- Warner is the first Australian to score 3 consecutive 100s twice. He is only the 5^th batsman and second opener to achieve this feat in the history of Tests.

2 – Warner’s 244* is the joint-second highest score after day one in Tests, behind Don Bradman’s 309. It was also his highest Test score and first double hundred.

5 – Joe Burns and Warner’s stand of 101 was the 5^th consecutive 100-plus opening partnership for Australia in Tests. This was also Warner’s fifth consecutive fifty in Tests.

6 – The number of hundreds hit by Australia’s top three in this series is the equal-most by any team in a three Test series.

9 – The number of Test centuries by Warner since 2014. No other opener has more than 4. Nobody has also scored more runs (4172) or centuries (15) than him since he made his Test debut in 2011.

84 – The number of innings it took for Warner to reach 4,000 Test runs. He is the fourth-fastest Australian to that milestone, behind Bradman (48), Hayden (77) and Harvey (80).

244* – Warner’s score is the highest by any batsman after 1^st day in Australia, beating Michael Clarke’s record of 224* against South Africa in Adelaide three years ago.

302 – The second-wicket partnership between Khawaja and Warner is the second-highest at the WACA, only behind Justin Langer and Ricky Ponting’s stand of 327 against Pakistan in 1999.

380 – David Warner’s score is the second-highest by any batsman at the WACA. The highest score is Matthew Hayden’s 380 against Zimbabwe in 2003.

1968 – Bill Lawry was the last Australian opener who had two scores of 150 or more in a series. He did it against WI in 1968.