Stats: West Indies Wait 86.4 Overs; Latham & Conway Dominate

Tom Latham and Devon Conway forged a record-breaking opening partnership in a Test match on New Zealand soil, achieving a feat that rewrites the nation's cricket history books.

The duo's stand of 323 runs is the second-highest ever for New Zealand in Test matches. Only Glenn Turner and Terry Jarvis's 387-run partnership against the West Indies in Georgetown in 1972 surpasses it.

West Indies' bowlers had to toil for 86.4 overs before finally claiming their first wicket. In this century, only Zimbabwe had to wait longer – 114.1 overs against the West Indies in Bulawayo in 2023 – for their first breakthrough.

At the close of the first day, Conway remained unbeaten on 178. This is the third-highest score by a New Zealand batsman on the opening day of a Test. Brendon McCullum's 195 against Sri Lanka in 2014 and Latham's 186* against Bangladesh in 2022, both in Christchurch, are the only scores ahead of it.

• Key stats from the match:
• This was only the sixth time in New Zealand's 483 Test matches that both openers scored centuries. The previous instance was in 2019 against Bangladesh, when Latham and Jeet Raval both reached the milestone.
• Latham and Conway have now recorded two 150+ opening partnerships in Tests. The other was 183 against Pakistan in Karachi in 2022. John Wright and Trevor Franklin are the only other New Zealand pair to achieve this.
• The partnership was the fourth century opening stand between Latham and Conway in Tests, the second-most for New Zealand after Wright and Franklin.
• Latham and Conway have now amassed 1721 runs as an opening pair in Test matches across 43 innings. This makes them New Zealand's most prolific opening partnership in the format, surpassing the 1655 runs scored by Wright and Bruce Edgar in 56 innings.