With Test 200 at Lord’s, Devon Conway breaches many records

New Zealand’s Devon Conway became the seventh batsman overall and the second Kiwi to score a double century on debut. Conway scored 200 runs in 347 balls to power New Zealand to a 378-run first-innings total on Thursday. He is the first batsman to achieve this feat in England. He contributed 52.91% of New Zealand’s runs in this innings.

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Conway top-edged Mark Wood’s short ball for a flat six over fine leg to reach the 200-run mark. The dressing room immediately rose to applaud the debutant’s terrific knock at the home of cricket. Conway was run out in the very next over.

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West Indies’ Kyle Mayers was the previous entrant with 210* against Bangladesh in his second innings on debut in February.

Here is a list of highest individual scores in debut innings (Tests):

287 Tip Foster Eng v Aus 1903/04

222*Jacques Rudolph SA v Ban 2003

214 Lawrence Rowe WI v NZ 1971/72

214 Mathew Sinclair NZ v WI 1999/00

201*Brendon Kuruppu SL v NZ 1987

200 Devon Conway NZ v Eng 2021