If you were a statistician at Pukekura Park in New Plymouth yesterday you would have earned your money as records kept tumbling in a remarkable Twenty20 match between Central Districts and Wellington.
The game was a battle to avoid the wooden spoon and on their own turf Central Districts proved they were a cut above the visitors as they cruised to a 53-run victory.
Wellington won the toss and asked the home side to bat on the small ground. Central didn't need a second invitation to take the initiative as openers Jamie How (102) and Peter Ingram (97) went about their work.
CD were without Ross Taylor and Jacob Oram with minor injuries, but they wouldn't have got much of a bat had they played as How and Ingram laid on a mammoth opening stand of 201.
Their partnership was second-biggest in Twenty20 history behind Adam Gilchrist and Shaun Marsh's 206 for the King's Punjab XI in the IPL in 2011 and the biggest for the first wicket in all Twenty20 cricket, eclipsing the 192 Hamish Marshall and Kevin O'Brien put on for Gloucestershire last year.