Seddon Park Tosses.

I have analysed the past 10 tests at Seddon Park.  The figures below speak for themselves.

Team	Year	Tosses Won By	Chose to	Game result
Bangladesh	Feb-10	Bangladesh	Field	Blackcaps
Australia	Mar-10	Australia	Bat	Australia
Pakistan	Jan-11	Pakistan	Field	Blackcaps
South Africa	Mar-12	South Africa	Field	South Africa
West Indies	Dec-13	New Zealand	Field	Blackcaps
Sri Lanka	Dec-15	New Zealand	Field	Blackcaps
Pakistan	Nov-16	Pakistan	Field	Blackcaps
South Africa	Mar-11	South Africa	Bat	Drawn
West Indies	Dec-17	West Indies	Field	Blackcaps
Bangladesh	Mar-19	New Zealand	Field	Blackcaps
England	Dec-19	England	Field	Drawn
Last 11 Test Matches		Tosses Won by Blackcaps
		3
		Choices - Bat
		2
		Choices Field
		8
		Matches Results wins by Blackcaps
		7

The very very good stats from the Top Order current Blackcaps Team

Winners are grinners and the current BlackCap have forsaking Grins for very BIG Smiles.  Below is the uptodate analysis of the past 25 innings from each Top Order Batsman.  Aggregates, Averages, Not Outs and 100's.  Have also aggregated the runs scored and the average runs scored  Fair to so wonderful figures.

Updated figures after Latham and Nicholls runs fest.

Blackcaps Top Order Blog.		(NO are in Pink Background)		(Ducks in Green)
			100's in Bold and Italics
Innings	Tom Latham	Jeet Raval	Kane Williamson	Ross Taylor	Henry Nicholls
1	0	55	61	9	30
2	80	36	13	0	0
3	177	55	42	32	13
4	16	2	53	11	26
5	68	27	104	37	53
6	41	15	2	102	4
7	10	32	130	40	98
8	8	52	2	60	12
9	6	36	1	77	118
10	50	30	130	15	7
11	37	80	2	93	0
12	22	88	1	16	67
13	22	42	176	207	13
14	26	84	1	20	5
15	0	5	43	2	145
16	83	17	54	13	0
17	13	7	102	2	13
18	0	46	22	19	28
19	22	31	0	0	55
20	50	2	68	82	0
21	4	45	37	0	77
22	10	0	28	22	1
23	264	42	30	50	126
24	10	6	89	27	50
25	176	74	48	40	162
Aggregate	1195	909	1239	976	1103
Average	56.90	37.88	53.87	46.48	50.14
100's Per Innings	8.33	25.00	5.00	8.33	6.25
Total Top Order Aggregate		5422
Top Five Order Innings Average		243	Runs per Innings in tolal scores.
Top Five Combined Batting Averages.		49.05

OLd figures. Blackcaps Top Order Blog.		(NO are in Pink Background)		(Ducks in Green)
Innings	Tom Latham	Jeet Raval	Kane Williamson	Ross Taylor	Henry Nicholls
1	0	55	61	9	30
2	80	36	13	0	0
3	177	55	42	32	13
4	16	2	53	11	26
5	68	27	104	37	53
6	41	15	2	102	4
7	10	32	130	40	98
8	8	52	2	60	12
9	6	36	1	77	118
10	50	30	130	15	7
11	37	80	2	93	0
12	22	88	1	16	67
13	22	42	176	207	13
14	26	84	1	20	5
15	0	5	43	2	145
16	83	17	54	13	0
17	13	7	102	2	13
18	0	46	22	19	28
19	22	31	0	0	55
20	50	2	68	82	0
21	4	45	37	0	77
22	10	0	28	22	1
23	264	42	30	50	126
24	10	6	89	27	50
25	124	74	48	40	64
Aggregate	1143	909	1239	976	1005
Average	54.43	37.88	53.87	46.48	45.68
Total Top Order Aggregate		5272
Top Five Order Innings Average		210.88
Top Five Combined Batting Averages.		47.67

The Riches that is New Zealand (Test) Cricket

So stats time.

How many NZ Test Cricket teams (aka Blackcaps) have had a dearth of 50's, 100's and the odd 200+ that this current team has.  Also the collective averages in the first 7 batsmen above 30 is probably rare amongst NZ teams.

Jeet Raval                6 x 50,  0 x 100, and 0 x 200+'s  with an average of 33.06.
Tom Latham            15 x 50,  6 x 100's,  1 x 200+ (264*)  averaging 36.20
Kane Williamson    28 x 50,  19 x 100,  1 x 200+ (242*)  averaging 51.56
Ross Taylor             29 x 50,  17 x 100,  2 x 200+ (217* and 290) averaging  46.08
Henry Nichols         7 x 50 and 3 x  100, and no 200's.  Averages 39.20
BJ Watling               16 x 50's and 6 x 100's with no double tons.  Averaging 38.11
Colin deGrandholme  3 x 50's and 1 x 100 no doubles.  Averaging 30.00

Tom Latham video

The 200+ Cricket Club - Blackcaps history.

The first 200 score for a  Blackcap batsman was M Donnelly's 206.  Between 1949 and Crowe's arrival with his unlucky 299 only 5 batsmen had passed the magic 200.  Since Martin's knock we have had a dearth of records. Since 1991 there have been 13 doubles and a 300.

Several batsmen have done the feat on two or more occasions.

On the following tables, one is sorted with scores and the other sorted in years.

Our first 200 member Martin Donnolly

Enjoy.

Batsmen	Score	Year
B McCullum	302	2014
M Crowe	299	1991
R Taylor	290	2015
S Fleming	274*	2003
Young	267*	1997
S Fleming	262	2006
G Turner	259	1972
K Williamson	242*	2015
G Dowling	239	1968
B Sutcliffe	230*	1955
B McCullum	225	2010
G Turner	223*	1972
N Astle	222	2002
R Taylor	217*	2013
M Sinclair	214	1999
M Donnelly	206	1949
S Fleming	202	2004
B McCullum	202	2014
J Ryder	201	2009

Batsmen	Score	Year
M Donnelly	206	1949
B Sutcliffe	230*	1955
G Dowling	239	1968
G Turner	259	1972
G Turner	223*	1972
M Crowe	299	1991
Young	267*	1997
M Sinclair	214	1999
N Astle	222	2002
S Fleming	274*	2003
S Fleming	202	2004
S Fleming	262	2006
J Ryder	201	2009
B McCullum	225	2010
R Taylor	217*	2013
B McCullum	302	2014
B McCullum	202	2014
R Taylor	290	2015
K Williamson	242*	2015

And our latest - both in 2015