Batting first after losing the toss, the Indian team set a target of 307 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in front of New Zealand. Chasing the target, the New Zealand team defeated the Indian team at the loss of 3 wickets in 47.1 overs thanks to Tom Latham’s blistering century and captain Kane Williamson’s 94 runs.
The Indian team had to face defeat in the first match of the ongoing three-match ODI series between India and New Zealand. Batting first after losing the toss, the Indian team scored 306 runs. Tom Latham’s blistering century innings and captain Kane Williamson’s 94 runs from New Zealand helped the team win by losing 3 wickets in 47.1 overs.
Match winning innings of Tom Latham-Williamson
Chasing the target, the New Zealand team had lost their three wickets for 88 runs. Captain Kane Williamson along with Tom Latham handled New Zealand’s innings and changed the course of the match.Latham scored 76 balls with 14 fours and 3 sixes, scoring his second century against India and 7th in ODIs. This was his biggest innings in ODIs. He scored 145 runs in 104 balls. This is the biggest innings of any wicket-keeper batsman against the Indian team in ODIs so far.
Captain Williamson played a brilliant inning of 94 off 98 ballIndia.a Openers Shikhar Dhawan and Shubman Gill, who came out to bat for India, made a great start to the innings. They shared a 124-run partnership for the first wicket. Gill scored 50 runs in 65 balls with the help of 3 sixes and 1 four. At the same time, Shubman Gill scored an inning of 72 runs off 77 balls, hitting 13 fours. Both of them had a slow start which proved to be heavy for the Indian team. During this his strike rate was less than 100.
Rishabh Pant once again flopped for the Indian team. After T20, he failed to show good performance in ODIs as well. He returned to the pavilion after scoring 15 runs in 23 balls. At the same time, Suryakumar Yadav, who created panic in T20, also flopped against New Zealand. He was seen struggling in ODIs. Loki Ferguson got him caught by Finn Allen for 4 runs.
Shreyas and Washington’s innings wasted
Shreyas, who has been scoring runs continuously in ODIs, played another excellent innings to get the team out of trouble. During his innings of 80 runs off 76 balls, he hit 4 fours and as many sixes. He got the support of Sanju Samson who played an inning of 36 runs. In the end, Washington Sundar hit 3 fours and 3 sixes in 16 balls to reach the score of 300 runs in an innings of 37 runs.
