Younis passes 1000 runs in 2014

1015 Runs scored by Younis Khan from eight Tests in 2014. He is the fourth batsman to hit the landmark in 2014, with the other three being Sri Lankans - Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene and Angelo Mathews. Younis is the only one to have played less than ten Tests though.

6 Number of fifty-plus scores for Azhar Ali from seven Tests this year. Five of them have come in his last seven innings. He has scored 701 runs this year, including three hundreds at an average of 58.4.

113 The third-wicket partnership between Younis and Azhar. This is Pakistan's sixth century partnership for the third wicket against New Zealand in home/neutral conditions, and 14th overall.

4 Number of hundred partnerships between Younis and Azhar in 2014. No other pair has more such stands this year and among the five others who have more than two century stands in 2014, Younis and Azhar are the only ones without a fifty.

5 Number of sixes hit during Pakistan's innings so far, two by Younis, and one each by Azhar, Asad Shafiq and Misbah-ul-Haq. All of them came off Mark Craig's bowling.

668 Number of Test runs scored by Younis Khan in the last month. He has scored a fifty and four hundreds, including a double-ton, in this period. For context, England's Ian Bell has scored 669 runs in the last 12 months.

3453 Balls between Azhar's last two sixes in Tests, both of which were at Dubai. He hit one six during his innings of 75, and the one before that came against England in 2012, when he made 157 in Pakistan's second innings. Overall, it was Azhar's fourth six in Tests.

0 Prior instances of New Zealand and Pakistan batting 100-plus overs in the first innings of a Test played in Pakistan or the UAE. New Zealand played 156 overs in their first innings, while Pakistan have played 109 so far. However, there have been nine instances of this happening when both teams have played in New Zealand.

5.6 Pakistan's run-rate during the last eight overs of the second day when they scored 45 runs. Prior to that, Pakistan made 236 from 101 overs, at a run-rate of 2.3