Martin Guptill scalps three wickets to guide New Zealand to a scintillating victory: Twitter reactions

To everyone's surprise, Martin Guptill rolled his arms as a part-time off-spinner and scalped three key wickets to dismantle Zimbabwe for a mere score of 132.

New Zealand bowled out Zimbabwe in the second Test for 132 in the second innings to win the game by 254 runs at Bulawayo. With this win, New Zealand have now whitewashed the hosts in a two-match series and are now bolstered with confidence. To everyone’s surprise, Martin Guptill rolled his arms as a part-time off-spinner and scalped three key wickets to dismantle Zimbabwe for a mere score of 132. Also Read: Neil Wagner opens up on his wildest dreams 

Guptill got the better of Craig Ervine, Sean Williams and Graeme Cremer to guide his side to a convincing victory. Guptill bowled a good line and stunned everyone with his tally of three wickets. He also scored a well-fought 87 in the first innings and contributed with the ball as well. Twitterati reacted to this match-winning spell by Guptill and the micro-blogging site was filled with tweets on Guptill. Check out some of the tweets here:

Wow! is @Martyguptill a regular bowler? Got 3 wickets in test match! How fantastic is this? Congrats man! #NZvZ pic.twitter.com/7T2yMskhjl

— Noor Moahammad (@Noor_jnu) August 10, 2016

@Martyguptill excellent work by @BLACKCAPS — abuzar (@Naumanhaider19) August 10, 2016

@Martyguptill you’d better spell your captain’s name correctly if you think you want another bowl…

— Gavin (@Gavinjapan) August 10, 2016

@martyguptill @blackcaps & will be following hope u have a great 1 there too watch out #steyn #Rabada lo #vigi — Trinity George (@trinitygeorge8) August 10, 2016

.@Martyguptill 3 for 11, that’s insane! Plus bonus points for what I hope is a twitter handle reference to #backtothefuture #MartyMcFly

— Laurence Frederick (@LaurenceAOC) August 10, 2016

Old guppy aye… Who would’ve thought?! Was loving it tho!!@Martyguptill @BLACKCAPS #ZIMvNZ https://t.co/3mz5i22EON — Jessica Payne (@blackcapette) August 10, 2016

Zimbabwe blown away at Bulawayo by Martin Guptill and Ish Sodhi.

— Rahul Sharma (@Sharma_rahul34) August 10, 2016

@ICC @Martyguptill came out of the blue to bag 3 wickets! Zimbabwean batsmen did put up a good fight, though. #ZIMvNZ — Sritama Panda (@94sritama4crick) August 10, 2016

The credibility of @Martyguptill as test batsman was being questioned & he answered with this bowling 3-11!
2-NIL series victory for #NZL

— Sritama Panda (@94sritama4crick) August 10, 2016

Another one! Martin Guptill is a wicket taking machine! 2 to go for the @BLACKCAPS #ZIMvNZ pic.twitter.com/MNGU6O8i6n — #TheACCnz (@TheACCnz) August 10, 2016

Get Martin Guptill to #Rio2016. His arm is golden. #ZIMvNZ #Blackcaps

— iamjonnyking™ (@iamjonnyking) August 10, 2016

@Martyguptill Have you been secretly practicing your bowling? Shit son. #ZIMvNZ — Robert Law (@Roberto_Whk) August 10, 2016

I’m supposed to be going to bed but when @Martyguptill is getting wicket after wicket, it’s hard to leave the @BLACKCAPS action #ZIMvNZ

— Denise Garland (@DemiseG) August 10, 2016

Martin Guptill already bowling better than Mark Craig did for his entire career #ZIMvNZ — /cric/ (@4chancricket) August 10, 2016

Great work with the ball @Martyguptill #allrounder

— Brett Randell (@brandellpants) August 10, 2016

Martin Guptill spins NZ to victory – lines you never thought you would see in your life. — Alagappan Vijaykumar (@IndianMourinho) August 10, 2016

Martin Guptill again! 4 wickets to go for the @BLACKCAPS #ZIMvNZ pic.twitter.com/X3Nw8YpDpW

— #TheACCnz (@TheACCnz) August 10, 2016

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