Cricket: The remarkable numbers behind the Black Caps' win

New Zealand players celebrate taking the wicket of Zimbabwean batsman Chamunorwa Chibhabha. Photo / AP.

The Blacks Caps are continuing to break records in 2015 and their 10 wicket thrashing of Zimbabwe brought up some more remarkable numbers.

Martin Guptill and Tom Latham's unbeaten opening stand of 236 guided New Zealand to victory - as they chased down Zimbabwe's 235-9 with ease - and it was their highest ever partnership in an ODI run chase.

The pair both made centuries and it's only the second time ever that two New Zealand openers have ever achieved that in the same ODI, with the last occasion coming against minnows Ireland in 2008.

As detailed on ESPN cricinfo - The Black Caps had only registered one 100-plus partnership in the 33 months before 2015 but the partnership between Guptill and Latham was the third they've scored this calendar year.

Guptill became the 10th New Zealander to pass 4000 ODI runs and he's now third on the Blacks Caps ODI hundreds list with eight. He's now level with Stephen Fleming but still way behind Nathan Astle and Ross Taylor, who've scored 16 and 15 ODI centuries respectively.

However, with the rate that Black Caps batsmen are scoring centuries at this year, that list could soon be shaken up considerably.

14 ODI hundreds have been registered already in 2015, which has already smashed the previous record of seven which were scored in 2007, 2011 and 2014.

The 10 wicket win over Zimbabwe was also the seventh time New Zealand have won by that margin in ODIs and it was only the fifth time in ODI history that a team has won by 10 wickets chasing a target of 200-plus.