Pakistan vs New Zealand - 3rd Test, Day 3: Play in numbers

Brendon McCullum celebrates his double century with Kane Williamson

Having finished the second day strongly, New Zealand quickly smashed aside the deficit and went on to firmly establish themselves as front runners to win the Test on Day 3 at Sharjah. Overnight batsmen Brendon McCullum and Kane Williamson reached personal landmarks before returning back to the pavillion.

The Blackcaps moved on to 637/8 by Stumps as Tim Southee fell soon after reaching his half century. Mark Craig is unbeaten on 34. The lead is now 286 and the visitors have two days in hand to try and level the series.

Here are the highlights of the day's play in numbers.

1 - Brendon McCullum became the first New Zealander to register four 200+ scores in Test matches. Resuming day 3 on 153, having scored the fastest century by a Kiwi batsman on day 2, McCullum scored 202 before being dismissed.

3 - New Zealand amassed their third highest innings total. 680/8 dec against India earlier this year is their all time highest.   

4 - The 33-year-old's double century off just 186 balls is also the fourth fastest in Test history behind countryman Nathan Astle (153 balls v Eng) and India's Virender Sehwag (168 balls v SL and 182 balls v Pak).

8 - Williamson with 8 centuries has now scored more tons than any New Zealander at the age of 24. The right hander averages 41.21 in 37 matches scoring 2638 runs.

50, 50, 50 - Ross Taylor, Corey Anderson and Tim Southee helped themselves to their 23rd, 2nd and 3rd Test half centuries. Strangely, all three failed to add a single run after reaching their fifty.

100, 100, 100, 100 - In this decade, Williamson is the only non-Asian to score centuries against all four Asian hosts - India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and United Arab Emirates.

192 - Being dismissed for 192, Williamson missed out on his maiden Test double. This is only the second Test in which two batsman were dismissed in the 190s - Mohammad Hafeez scored 197 for Pakistan. The other one involves Kumar Sangakkara (192) and Hafeez (196) again.

200 - This is also McCullum's third 200+ score in 2014, joining an elite list that includes Don Bradman, Michael Clark and Ricky Ponting who have also achieved the landmark in a calender year. Only Bradman and McCullum have a triple hundred in it.

297 - The stand involving McCullum and Williamson is now the highest by a New Zealand second wicket pair in Test matches.

1000 - Southee went past 1000 career runs with a staggering 52 sixes to his name.

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