Double 300: Latham-Conway achieve a rare Test feat

317-run opening stand between Tom Latham and Devon Conway is the third-highest first-wicket partnership for New Zealand in Tests, behind 387 runs added by Terry Jarvis and Glenn Turner against the West Indies in Georgetown in 1972, and 323 by the same pair (Latham/Conway) against the West Indies at Mount Maunganui in December 2025.

Highest opening partnerships for New Zealand in Tests

1 It is New Zealand's highest partnership for any wicket against England, surpassing the 276-run opening stand by Stewie Dempster and Jackie Mills at Wellington in 1930. It is the first 300-plus stand of any wicket against England since 2017, and only the third 300-plus opening stand they have conceded in Tests.

2 Latham and Conway's second 300-plus Test partnership makes them only the second opening pair to achieve the feat, after Graeme Smith and Herschelle Gibbs (3). They are only the second New Zealand pair with multiple 300-plus Test partnerships, after Kane Williamson and Henry Nicholls (2).

3 Latham and Conway became only the third opening pair to post a 300-plus stand in a Test on English soil, after Australia's Geoff Marsh and Mark Taylor (329 runs, Nottingham, 1989) and South Africa's Graeme Smith and Herschelle Gibbs (338 runs, Birmingham, 2003). It is also the first 300-plus stand by a visiting pair against England since Hashim Amla and Jacques Kallis' unbroken 377-run stand at The Oval in 2012. This is also New Zealand's second-highest partnership for any wicket in away Tests.

2 Latham and Conway's 317-run stand is the joint-second highest opening partnership in WTC history, behind only their own 323-run association against West Indies last December; it equals Rohit Sharma and Mayank Agarwal's 317 against South Africa in 2019. These are the only three 300-plus opening partnerships in WTC history.

6 It is also the sixth century opening stand between Latham and Conway in Tests, the most for New Zealand, surpassing John Wright and Trevor Franklin, who got five such stands. Latham and Conway also became the first New Zealand opening pair to pass 2000 Test partnership runs. They now have 2258 runs (avg: 45.16) as a Test opening pair in 50 innings, well ahead of John Wright and Bruce Edgar's 1655 runs in 56 innings.

17 hundreds for Tom Latham in Tests. He equals Martin Crowe. Only Kane Williamson (33) and Ross Taylor (19) have more for New Zealand. Latham now has seven 150-plus Test scores – the second-most for New Zealand after Williamson (11). All seven of his such scores have come as a Test opener. Conway's four are second-most on the list.

4 instances of both visiting openers scoring hundreds in the same innings in England this century, and first since South Africa's Graeme Smith and Neil McKenzie at Lord's in 2008. The last visiting openers to score first-innings hundreds in England were Smith and Herschelle Gibbs at Edgbaston in 2003. This is also the 87th instance of both openers scoring hundreds in a Test innings; Latham and Conway did so in instances 85 and 86 against West Indies in 2025, the only openers to score centuries in both innings of a Test.

2 Latham and Conway are just the second New Zealand opening pair with 150-plus each in a Test innings, after Jarvis and Turner against West Indies in 1972. They are also only the second opening pair to score 150-plus each in a Test innings against England, after South Africa's Smith and Gibbs at Edgbaston in 2003.

361 runs scored by New Zealand on the first day of the Trent Bridge Test is the most runs scored by any team against England on the opening day in the Bazball Era. The previous record in this period is India's 359/3 at Headingley in 2025. New Zealand's 361 is their joint-second-highest Day 1 total in an away Test, behind 452/9 against Zimbabwe in 2005. This is also the most England have conceded on the first day of a Test since South Africa got to 362/4 at The Oval in 2003.