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# Ravindra Jadeja (42 not out) has recorded his highest score vs New Zealand in Tests, eclipsing the 30 not out at Auckland in February 2014.
# Jadeja's splendid brief knock is his third highest score in Tests. He had scored 68 vs England at Lord's in 2014 and 43 vs Australia at Delhi in 2013.
# Jadeja's above unbeaten innings is the highest by India's number nine batsman in Tests vs New Zealand at Kanpur, obliterating the 27 by Srinivas Venkataraghavan in November 1976. Bapu Nadkarni had posted an unbeaten 52 vs England at this venue in February 1964, which is the the only half-century by a number nine batsman in Tests at Green Park, Kanpur.
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# Latham's record in Tests in Asia is splendid - his tally being 338 in six innings at an average of 67.60, including two centuries and a fifty.
# Latham's batting stats under Williamson's captaincy are reasonably good - his aggregate being 318 in seven innings at an average of 53.00, including two hundreds and a fifty.
# Latham's eleven innings of 50-plus are the third highest by New Zealand openers away from home next only to John Wright (14 in 66 innings) and Mark Richardson (13 in 37).
# Williamson is enjoying superb batting record in Tests in 2016 - his aggregate is 563 in eleven innings at an average of 70.37, including a century and five fifties.
# Latham and Williamson were involved in an unbroken second-wicket stand of 117 - New Zealand's highest stand for any wicket in Tests at Green Park, Kanpur, eclipsing the 106 for the third wicket between Mark Burgess and Glenn Turner in November 1976.
# A century stand has been recorded by a visiting team vs India for the first time after seven Tests.
# Kohli's tally of reaching 1000 runs in only 17 innings is a record for the quickest by a captain to this milestone in ODIs, bettering the 18 innings taken by Abraham de Villiers.
# Kohli has managed 185 runs at an average of 61.66 - his best performance in a three-match ODI series as captain.
# In all the five ODI series as Captain, Kohli has scored atleast a century.
# Jonny Bairstow (56 off 64 balls) has posted his first fifty vs India - his third in ODIs - the highest being 83 not out vs New Zealand at Chesteer-le-Street on June 20, 2015. His only other fifty is 61 vs Pakistan at Leeds on September 1, 2016.
# Kedar Jadhav has managed 232 runs at an average of 77.33, including a hundred and a fifty. The said performance is his best in an ODI series. For the first time in a series, he has recorded a century and a fifty.
# Jadhav's series strike rate of 144.09 in the series is the third highest by an Indian batsman in a series (minimum 150 balls) - the highest being Virender Sehwag's 150.25 while scoring 299 in five innings at an average of 74.75 vs New Zealand in 2008-09.
# Chris Woakes has finished as the leading wicket-taker in the series - 6 wickets at an average of 29.83.
# Yuvraj Singh has become the first batsman to manage 1500 runs in India-England ODIs - his tally being 1523 runs at an average of 50.76 in 37 matches.
# Ben Stokes (57 not out + 3 for 63), for the second time in an ODI, has achieved the double of a fifty and three wickets - the first instance being 70 and 4 for 38 vs Australia at Perth on January 24, 2014.
# Ronnie Irani is the only other England all-rounder to accomplish the double vs India - 53 and 5 for 26 at The Oval on July 9, 2002.
# Stokes has been adjudged the Man of the Match for the second time in ODIs - his first was against Australia at Perth on January 24, 2014.
# 17 fifty-plus innings of 50 or more in the just concluded series is a record for a three-match bilateral ODI series, surpassing the 14 between West Indies and India in 2013-14.