Record-breaker Voges tops Bradman, Sachin

Adam Voges has gone where no Test cricketer has gone before, scoring 500 consecutive runs without being dismissed and now averages more than 100 from 19 innings.

The Australian veteran posted his fifth Test century on day two of the first Test against New Zealand in Wellington, and his third in consecutive Test innings following scores of 269no and 106no against the West Indies in December.

In reaching 123 in the evening session, Voges claimed the record for the most Test runs scored between dismissals.

Quick Single: Voges ton drives Australia on

By the time he had passed 172, his career Test average was an even 100. He finished unbeaten on 176, having batted throughout the second day of the first Trans-Tasman Test, and boasts a career average of 100.33.  

Voges has scored 1,204 career Test runs in 19 innings, with a highest score of 269 not out (against the West Indies in Hobart). He has five centuries and three fifties to his name, and his runs have come at a career strike rate of 59.36. 

The Western Australian not only bettered Bradman, he broke the 12-year-old record of India's Sachin Tendulkar, who posted 497 consecutive runs – scores of 241no, 60no, 194no and 2 – from January to April 2004.

The Indian great had himself broken the mark of West Indies icon Sir Garry Sobers, who posted consecutive scores of 365no and 125 against Pakistan way back in 1958.

He also surpassed Michael Clarke's Australian record of 489 consecutive runs without being dismissed, scored against South Africa in Brisbane and Adelaide in 2012.

Voges broke through the 500-run barrier a short time later to extend his record mark.

Upon beating Tendulkar's record, Voges's Test average was 95.91, with this his 14th Test.

Quick Single: Voges benefits from slice of luck

Voges' performance on Saturday came after a huge stroke of luck on Friday – he was dismissed from what replays showed was a legitimate delivery, only for the umpire to call no-ball – and was his fourth hundred from his past four first-class innings, having posted 149 in Western Australia's Sheffield Shield match against NSW Blues last week. 

His third consecutive hundred also means he joins David Warner (twice) and Adam Gilchrist as the only Australian players post World War Two to have scored a century in three straight Test innings.

Up until October 2014, Gilchrist was the only man in Baggy Green to have achieved the feat in the past 60 years before Warner did so twice in 13 months.

The left-handed opener posted twin tons in the third Test against South Africa at the start of 2014 and then notched three figures again in his next Test innings, against Pakistan in Dubai in October of that year. His twin tons against New Zealand at the Gabba late last year and the double-century he scored in the first innings of the next match in Perth secured Warner the achievement for a second time.