Happy birthday, Ross Taylor.

The birth of one of New Zealand's finest: aggressive top-order player Ross Taylor, a batter with a marked fondness for the on side. In only his third ODI, Taylor hammered a superb 128 against Sri Lanka in Napier. In 2008 he scored his maiden Test hundred, against England in Hamilton, and followed it up with an unbeaten 154 at Old Trafford. Taylor's solidity prompted the selectors to name him captain in 2010, when Daniel Vettori chose to step down. New Zealand beat Australia in Hobart and Sri Lanka in Colombo - for the first time in the country since 1998 - under him, but Taylor won't remember his stint with a lot of joy. After the Colombo win, he stepped down from captaincy under controversial circumstances, declining an offer to stay on as Test captain in a split-leadership scenario. He also took a break from cricket, but returned in 2013 with renewed vigour. He scored 754 runs between May and December 2013, including his maiden double-hundred, which was immediately followed by two more centuries. His highest Test score, 290 at the WACA in 2015, was also the best by an overseas batter in Australia. A benign growth in his eye troubled him soon after that innings, but after surgery in December 2016, he went on to equal the New Zealand record for most centuries, held by Martin Crowe and Kane Williamson.