NEW ZEALAND WON BY 6 WICKETS AGAINST INDIA AT WANKHEDE : 1ST ODI NEW ZEALAND TOUR OF INDIA 2017

IND 280/8 (50.0 Ovs)

NZ 284/4 (49.0 Ovs)

  CRR: 5.8

New Zealand won by 6 wkts

Batsman

R

B

4s

6s

SR

Tom Latham *

103

102

8

2

100.98

Henry Nicholls

4

1

1

0

400.00

Bowler

O

M

R

W

ECO

Jasprit Bumrah *

9

0

56

1

6.22

 Bhuvneshwar Kumar

10

0

56

1

5.60

Williamson, winning captain: Brilliant performance. The way we set the tone with the new ball was outstanding. Great hundred from Virat, becoming fairly normal. And then to see a partnership like that.. one of the best chases I've seen. The bowling performance in this humidity was a great effort. 200-run partnership was a special, special partnership. You want to take the game deep over here. There were still a few more batsmen in the shed. A great team performance today. Very challenging weather. Guys had a great attitude, stuck to the task well.

Kohli,losing captain : On a personal note, the knock was pretty satisfying. 275+ was good on that wicket, but NZ batted really well in the second half. Ross and Tom were outstanding, they deserved to win today. Putting the dew into perspective in the last 13-14 overs, we were definitely some runs short. Would have liked to have a better batting performance. However, from where we were, 280 was a competitive score. They tackled our spinners really well. They picked their areas. Credit to them. Tom especially. Enjoyed watching him. Trent also bowled really well. The wicket had enough bounce and turn. If the game had drifted away from us earlier, we could have brought Kedar in. But as it was, we didn't feel the need.

PLAYER OF THE MATCH
Tom Latham

Latham: It was pretty humid out there. Keeping for 50 overs and then batting is pretty tough. Conditions back home are pretty different, so nice to see it through. Whatever suits the team, and at the moment that No. 5 position is up for grabs. It's something I've been working on - the reverse sweep. Nice that it came off today. The biggest thing is communication, and we were talking regularly between overs. Ross had a calming influence as a senior player.

Taylor: Take the win anytime. The way Kohli anchored the innings, it put us under pressure. 280 was always going to be a tough score. Latham batted through and took the pressure off me. We were just trying to take it deep. It is very hard to start an innings here and we had to give ourselves a chance. Fantastic. The way they (Chahal and Kuldeep) controlled it and spun it both ways, having a left and right-hand combination helped us. There is a big future for both of them. Fantastic innings from Latham. He has been batting at the top. To come out and bat after keeping for 50 overs, it will go down as one of his best innings. I have played here in India and it is always nice when the crowd is shouting your name, disappointed to not get the hundred but happy with the win.

Tom Latham has enjoyed whatever ODI cricket he's played in India, and today's innings was a really good demonstration as to what has made him successful here. His execution of the sweep shot put India's wrist-spinners off their lengths, and opened other avenues to score as well. A richly deserved hundred, trumping the one from Kohli earlier in the day, which was a magnificent innings as well. Stay tuned for the presentations.

21:34 Local Time, 16:04 GMT, 21:34 IST: If you weren't very excited going into this series, you should be now. New Zealand have created history at the Wankhede, largely without breaking a sweat. They've done it through two extraordinary batting performances. When Tom Latham and Ross Taylor came together, the scenario was looking pretty grim for the visitors after losing three wickets in pretty much no time. But they didn't let the situation get to them. They rotated strike early, never allowed the spinners to dominate, and got the boundaries at timely intervals. India knew they were just one wicket away from getting into the inexperienced lower-order, but that wicket never came, not until the match was almost done.