Top 5 New Zealand Test opening pairs of all time

#3 Martin Guptill and Tom Latham

Martin Guptill and Tom Latham

They might not have set the world alight with their opening partnerships but the Martin Guptill-Tom Latham pairing has proven to be one of the most prolific opening pairs in New Zealand's Test history.

While left-hander Tom Latham is a gritty player who has the capacity to bat for long hours and the patience to play out the new ball before opening up, his partner is perhaps his polar opposite.

Guptill is an impulsive stroke-maker, prone to going for booming drives to deliveries that are pitched up. When it comes off, it looks great, but often enough he gives his wicket away. Even then, they have opened on 30 occasions and have totalled 1207 runs in their partnerships, which is the third highest among Kiwi opening pairs. The pair has put on 3 century-plus stands and as many as 7 fifty plus stands.