Stats: Kohli seventh Indian to hit successive tons

# Virat Kohli's [ Images ] first hundred against New Zealand [ Images ] is his fourth  in ODIs.

# Kohli has received his fourth Man of the Match award -- his first against New Zealand.

# Kohli took his run-aggregate to 866 (ave. 48.11) in 20 innings, including three hundreds and five fifties – the highest for India [ Images ] in 2010.

# For the first time in ODIs, Virat has posted centuries in successive innings -- 118 against Australia [ Images ] at Visakhapatnam [ Images ] and 105 against New Zealand.

# Kohli is the seventh Indian player to achieve the distinction, joining Sachin Tendulkar [ Images ], Rahul Dravid [ Images ], Sourav Ganguly [ Images ], VVS Laxman [ Images ], Yuvraj Singh [ Images ] and Rohit Sharma [ Images ].

# R Ashwin (3/50) has produced his best bowling performance in ODIs.

# Andy McKay (4/62) has recorded his best bowling performance in ODIs.

# Kyle Mills' [ Images ] bowling performance of 3 for 42 is his best against India, bettering the 3 for 45 at Napier [ Images ] on December 29, 2002.

# Yusuf Pathan's [ Images ] 29 off 19 balls is his highest innings against New Zealand, surpassing the 20 not out at Napier on March 3, 2009.

# Yusuf Pathan, for the first time, has taken three catches in an innings for the first time in ODIs.

# Nathan McCullum has posted his highest innings against India in ODIs.

# Yuvraj Singh's 42 off 64 balls is his highest innings against New Zealand in India, obliterating the 29 not out at Chennai on October 23, 2003.

# Yuvraj, for the first time in an ODI against New Zealand, has performed the double of claiming three wickets apart from registering a 40-plus in the same match.

# All 10 New Zealand's players have lost their wickets to catches. The said instance is the 14th in the history of ODIs.

# As nine Indian players were caught by New Zealanders, a record for 19 catches in an ODI has been set, surpassing the 18 between Sri Lanka [ Images ] and Pakistan at Colombo (PSS) on March 30, 1986.

# India have recorded their first win over New Zealand at Guwahati. New Zealand had defeated India by 48 runs on November 14, 1999.

# Vijay (29) has posted his highest innings in ODIs.

# As captain, Ross Taylor [ Images ] has posted his third fifty, all three this year -- 95 against India at Dambulla on August 10, 70 against Australia at Napier on March 3 and 66 against India.

# Taylor has recorded his 18th fifty in ODIs - his second against India.

# Taylor and Williamson were associated in a stand of 67 for the third wicket -- the highest by any pair against India at this venue.

# McCullum and Mills put on 67 for the ninth wicket against India -- the highest is 83 between Mills and Southee at Christchurch on March 8, 2009.

# The aforesaid stand is the highest by any pair against India for the ninth wicket in India, surpassing the 65 by Wayne Parnell [ Images ] and Dale Steyn [ Images ] for South Africa [ Images ] at Jaipur [ Images ] on February 21, 2010.

# Jamie How's tally of four catches is his career-best performance as a fielder. His previous best was three against West Indies [ Images ] at Wellington on January 7, 2009.

# How has joined five New Zealanders - Ken Rutherford, Chris Harris, Ross Taylor, Jamie How and Stephen Fleming [ Images ], who have taken four catches in an innings.

# How is the third fielder to take four catches or more in an innings in India, joining South Africa's Jonty Rhodes [ Images ] (five) - against West Indies at Mumbai [ Images ] on November 14, 1993 and Pakistan's Younis Khan [ Images ] against India at Jamshedpur on April 9, 2005.