Matt Henry Created History: New Zealand cricket team's fast bowler Matt Henry has created history. He has become the joint second bowler from his team to take the fastest 100 wickets in Test cricket. The name of former legendary cricketer Richard Hadlee comes in the first place. Who had achieved the feat of taking 100 wickets in 25 matches. After that, now the name of Matt Henry comes in second place along with Neil Wagner. Both these bowlers have taken 100 wickets in 26-26 matches respectively. Bruce Taylor occupies the third position in the list. Taylor took 100 wickets in his 27th test match.
Fastest bowler to take 100 wickets for New Zealand
25 matches – Richard Hadlee
26 Match – Neil Wagner
26 Match – Matt Henry
27 Match – Bruce Taylor
Matt Henry becomes the joint second fastest NZ bowler to take 100 wickets in Tests
Fastest to 100 wickets for New Zealand
25 matches – Richard Hadlee
26 matches – Neil Wagner
26 matches – Matt Henry
27 matches – Bruce Taylor pic.twitter.com/JOQ61Ne2tb— Cricket.com (@weRcricket) October 17, 2024
Matt Henry's performance in the first innings of Bengaluru Test
Matt Henry's performance in the first innings of the Bengaluru Test was quite classy. He bowled 13.2 overs for his team and took 5 wickets, conceding 15 runs at an economy of 1.10. During this period, his victims were Sarfaraz Khan (0), wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant (20), Ravindra Jadeja (0), Ravichandran Ashwin (0) and Kuldeep Yadav (02).
Matt Henry's test cricket career
Talking about Matt Henry's Test cricket career, he has played a total of 26* Test matches for New Zealand so far. Meanwhile, he has got 100 successes in 50 innings at an average of 30.94. His best bowling performance in Test cricket is 7 wickets at the cost of 23 runs.
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