Ross Taylor the first to play 100 matches across formats
“Really excited about the occasion. It’s very nice for the team and the family to experience something they might never do again,” Ross Taylor said.
“I’ll need some help drinking (the hundred bottles of wine), but they can be stored for a while. It keeps the tradition from Fleming, Brendon (McCullum) and Dan (Daniel Vettori) who all played over a hundred Tests each and hopefully we can celebrate this one with a win.”
The right-handed Ross Taylor is already his country’s leading run-scorer in Test and ODI with 7174 and 8570 runs respectively to his name.
In T20 Internationals, he has scored 1909 runs and former captain Brendon McCullum (2140 from 71 matches) and opener Martin Guptill (2536 from 88 matches)
are the only two Kiwi players above him on the list.
Taylor made his Test debut in 2007 and played his first ODI match a year earlier.