Wednesday was the first day of the New Year. For most people, January 1 morning is a bit groggy after previous night’s celebrations, which mark the farewell to the previous year and welcome the arrival of the New Year. For the New Zealand all-rounder Corey Anderson, it will be a day to cherish forever. Until he completed the act, he probably didn’t realize that he was breaking a 17-year old batting record in the ODIs, which had always appeared daunting to most batsmen. When Shahid Afridi of Pakistan tore the Sri Lankan bowling apart in an ODI game played in 1996 and scored a whirlwind 37-ball hundred, very few people would have thought that such feat could ever be exceeded by another batsman.