Twitter Reacts As Ross Taylor, Tom Latham Stun India In A Big Chase

Finally, the New Zealand Cricket Team broke the barriers to win it against the Indian National Cricket Team. The incredible batting display by Ross Taylor, Tom Latham and Henry Nicholls helped New Zealand to take 1-0 lead in the three-match ODI series.

After losing the toss, the new openers Mayank Agarwal and Prithvi Shaw started things pretty well with fifty-run partnership for the first wicket. However, both the batsmen walked back in quick time to help the hosts. But, the Indian skipper Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer steadied the ship with 102- run partnership for the third wicket.

Just when things looked in control of India, Ish Sodhi bowled a brilliant googly to get rid of Virat Kohli, which helped New Zealand to stage a comeback. However, Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul displayed their class to help India post a massive score on the board. During the course, Shreyas Iyer scored his maiden century while KL Rahul scored an unbeaten 88.

Ross Taylor, Tom Latham guide India to victory:

Chasing 348 runs, New Zealand got a good opening partnership with Martin Guptill and Henry Nicholls adding 85 runs for the opening wicket. Though Guptill was dismissed, Henry Nicholls continued his class in the middle. He added 152-run partnership before Virat Kohli dismissing Nicholls with his fielding brilliance.

Ross Taylor took fast bowlers to the cleaners while Tom Latham showed his class against the spinners to make the chase look pretty easy in the middle. It was Kuldeep Yadav and Shardul Thakur, who had a pretty ordinary day with the ball.

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And also, Tom Latham stood tall with Ross Taylor, who found the boundary fence more often than not. The duo stitched 138 to help New Zealand draw the first blood of the 3-match series. Ross Taylor finished with 109* runs while Tom Latham scored 69.

Here are a few tweets:

This is as good a partnership as you can see in white ball cricket in the middle overs. Taylor and Latham have played with no opposition. India just haven't had the bowler to control this phase.

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) February 5, 2020

Carnage now. India's bowling posing no questions. Taking punches like a boxer who is dazed.

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) February 5, 2020

Shardul Thakur after being hit 22 runs in an over by Ross Taylor. #NZvsIND #NzvInd pic.twitter.com/5AYCOt4aK4

— Prince Pandey?? (@princepandey_) February 5, 2020

This is some chase by NZ.
Ross Taylor is so under appreciated.
Clearly one of the best ODI bats in the world the last few years.

— Tom O'Neil (@thomasjameoneil) February 5, 2020

Ross Taylor to all the India bowlers today:#NZvIND | #NZvsIND pic.twitter.com/ixp8DbAOOR

— FoMA Ramteke (@fomaramteke) February 5, 2020

That @RossLTaylor fella is a pretty, pretty good player. #Legend

— Trent Woodhill (@TrentWoodhill) February 5, 2020

Ross Taylor to Indian bowlers today ?#INDvNZ pic.twitter.com/jsU8fPSgp5

— IndianCricketFansForum (@ICFans) February 5, 2020

Tom Latham and Ross Taylor leads New Zealand close to victory . Latham has puar class ?? and Ross is showing his experience.
Good innings of tom comes to an end well played 100%

— atif Aness (@atifanees07) February 5, 2020

50 for Ross Taylor! #NZvIND pic.twitter.com/N7PYW8ksUq

— The ACC (@TheACCnz) February 5, 2020

#taylorlatham partnership looked like both of them were performing the haka in front of the Indian team!! #rosstaylor #tomlatham #Hamilton #seddonpark #indvsnz

— sudindra rohit (@rohityerramilli) February 5, 2020

Game changer tom latham

— Vivek Pandey (@Vivek_khiladi1) February 5, 2020

What an innings from #TomLatham. What a partnership.

Excellent demonstration of how to take advantage of a small ground, where there is no room for error.

Remember, India had batted on this surface and ground as well. They did well. Latham and Taylor just did better.#NZvIND

— Abhishek Mukherjee (@ovshake42) February 5, 2020

Tom Latham and Ross Taylor leads New Zealand close to victory . Latham has puar class ?? and Ross is showing his experience.
Good innings of tom comes to an end well played 100%

— atif Aness (@atifanees07) February 5, 2020

Indian fans after hearing that Shardul is getting picked over Saini#INDvsNZ
pic.twitter.com/j8XtoZ0l1g

— N (@clobberinntime) February 5, 2020

Unfortunate Navdeep Saini, despite winning the Man of the Series in the last ODI series, doesn't find a spot in this team, he is a wicket taking bowler, who breaks partnerships. A bits & pieces bowler like Shardul will get a wicket when a batsman tries to hit him for the 3rd six.

— Gabbbar (@GabbbarSingh) February 5, 2020

Shardul Thakur has become ABD of bowlers.

ABD is 360° batsman
Shardul Thakur is 360° bowler

— Kuptaan ?? (@Kuptaan) February 5, 2020

https://twitter.com/dhruvjha2001/status/1224983023344480256

Brilliant kohli thinks he will Win matches with shardul thakur as batsman 1 in 10 matches but don't think he will loose 9 out of 10 shardul thakur as bowler.. Pathetic captaincy

— ethan hunt (@ajaysin63600769) February 5, 2020

Shardul thakur bowling free hit@VVSLaxman281 on commentary: Now, will he bowling a wide yorker?

Thakur bowls a wide yorker. Damn predictable.

— rohit (@manchandarohit) February 5, 2020

Then why is Kedar playing

— Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73) February 5, 2020

https://twitter.com/sarvagyasonu/status/1224899756196937729

Great chase. Sets up the series. Well played NZ. They should close this. #INDvNZ

— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar) February 5, 2020

No Offense But Tim Southee Should Stick to Test Cricket From Now On & Let Other Guys Play LOIs.We Saw that In the T20 Series as Well,By no Means He's a Death Overs Bowler & also On a Flat Deck He's Gonna Conceede So Many Runs. Just an Opinion#NZvIND #INDvNZ

— Mani ?? (@ManiTweets14) February 5, 2020

This man and his fitness is just unreal …… #INDvNZ pic.twitter.com/oylleNTMCz

— Avani (@avni96811008) February 5, 2020