In the third One-Day International between India and New Zealand played at Mohali bowling first, Indian bowlers didn’t have a good start as Kiwi openers had 46 run partnership for the first wicket. Opener Tom Latham scored another half-century of this tour by scoring 61. After the fall of the first wicket in the form of Martin Guptill, captain Kane Williamson too departed soon but Latham and Ross Taylor did a decent job by adding 73 runs for third wicket stand but soon they collapsed and were eight down for 199. From there on, it looked India may bowl out Kiwi’s at a low total but Jimmy Neesham’s 57-run knock changed the scenario and they ended up posting 285.
Umesh Yadav and Kedar Jadhav got three wickets each. Yadav was also the most expensive bowler for India, while Jasprit Bumrah and Amit Mishra scalped two wickets each. Coming to chase, Indian openers once again failed to give the much-needed start as they were two down for 41. Further, skipper MS Dhoni surprised everyone by coming at number four and did a brilliant job along with Virat Kohli by collecting 151 runs for third wicket. Dhoni could not score his hundred and fell 20-run shot, while Kohli ended up breaking his record by scoring unbeaten 154 and winning the match for India. Well, the match was not full of records but players like Dhoni and Kohli became part of plenty records during this another interesting chase.
75 runs conceded by Umesh Yadav — joint most by an Indian bowler against New Zealand at home in a spell of 10 overs after Venkatesh Prasad’s 75 for three in 1999.
The 84-run stand for ninth wicket between Henry and Neesham — highest by a Kiwi pair for ninth wicket in ODIs. Previous best was 83 runs between Kyle Mills and Tim Southee, which also came against India in 2009.
In terms of highest ninth wicket partnership against India in ODIs, Henry-Neesham’s 84-run stand is at the second position after James Faulkner-Clint McKay’s 115-run partnership in 2013.
Jimmy Neesham’s score of 57 runs is the second highest by a Kiwi batsman at number seven position against India after Richard Hadlee’s 71 in 1986.
New Zealand’s total of 285 is their fourth highest against India after losing all 10 wickets in ODIs. Other three better totals after getting all out are 334 in 2009, 314 in 2009 and 288 in 2010.
MS Dhoni breaks Sachin Tendulkar’s record for hitting most sixes in ODIs as Indian player. He has now 196 sixes to his name in ODIs, while Tendulkar has hit 195 sixes.
In terms of hitting most sixes for India, Dhoni is still behind Tendulkar because seven out of his 196 sixes came for Asia XI in 2007. For India, Dhoni is currently standing at second position with the joint second most number of sixes along with Sourav Ganguly, who has 189 sixes.
As captain, Dhoni breaks Ricky Ponting’s tally of most sixes as skipper in ODIs. Dhoni has now 125 sixes as captain in ODIs, while Ponting has 123.
Dhoni also completed 9,000 ODI runs during his innings against New Zealand. He is third fastest Indian to reach this landmark and overall, sixth fastest. Also, he becomes third batsman to go past 9,000 runs as wicketkeeper-batsman after Adam Gilchrist — 9,410 runs and Kumar Sangakkara — 13,341 runs. Dhoni is also the only batsman to score 9,000 ODI runs with the average of above 50.
Virat Kohli went past 3,000 runs in ODIs at home. he becomes seventh Indian batsmen to reach this landmark in India after Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni, Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh, Sourav Ganguly and Mohammad Azharuddin.
The 151-run stand for third wicket between Kohli and Dhoni — secondhighest by an Indian pair for third wicket against New Zealand in ODIs. Highest partnership for third wicket against New Zealand by an Indian pair is of 158 runs by Mohinder Amarnath and Navjot Singh Sidhu in 1988.
During this ODI, Dhoni also went past 150 stumping in international cricket. He is the first wicketkeeper to reach this feat.
701 fours for Dhoni —sixth Indian batsman to hit 700 or more fours in ODIs after Sachin Tendulkar (2016), Virender Sehwag (1132), Sourav Ganguly (1122), Rahul Dravid (950) and Yuvraj Singh (862).
16 centuries for Virat Kohli in ODIs while chasing. He is only one more hundred behind Sachin Tendulkar, who has 17 centuries while chasing.
14 successful centuries for Virat Kohli in ODIs while chasing — joint most by any batsman in ODIs with Sachin Tendulkar, who has the same number of successful hundreds in ODIs while chasing.
3,514 runs by Virat Kohli in successful chases in ODIs — sixth most runs by any batsman in successful chases after Sachin Tendulkar (5,490 runs), Ricky Ponting (4,186 runs), Jacques Kallis (3,950 runs), Adam Gilchrist (3,750 runs) and Sanath Jayasuriya (3,633 runs).
154 not out from Virat Kohli — highest individual score at Mohali in ODIs by beating Dhoni’s unbeaten 139 in 2013. Kohli also became only second batsman to hit a century at Mohali in ODIs.
289 for three — Second biggest chase for India against New Zealand in ODIs. India’s biggest chase over New Zealand is of 321 for five in 2010 at Bangalore.
350th defeat for New Zealand in ODIs — The fourth team to have lost 350 or more ODIs. Top three teams in terms of defeats are India (400 defeats), Pakistan (383 defeats) and Sri Lanka (373 defeats).
(Abhishek Kumar is a cricket devotee currently staffing with Criclife and CricketCountry.com. He can be followed at@abhik2593)
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