ANOTHER RECORD
AS the N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent, R. T. Brittenden, suggested, the feat by seven New Zealand batsmen in reaching the forties in the recent test at Birmingham is a record for this country. Never before,
to slightly misquote a famous Englishman, have so many batsmen scored so well at the same time. The previous record for consistent scoring by New Zealand batsmen was at Newlands, Cape Town, on the 1953-54 tour of South Africa. With New Zealand reaching its best total, 505, in test cricket, six batsmen passed 40, four of them scoring half centuries and J. R. Reid 135. Before that, at Christchurch in the 1950-51 season, five New Zealand batsmen passed 40 in a rather slow test with England, a feat that was emulated by the present team against Pakistan at Lahore on the way to England.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30769, 5 June 1965, Page 11
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140ANOTHER RECORD Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30769, 5 June 1965, Page 11
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