In the post-match interaction, Thakur, Player of the Match, explained the plan behind Latham’s wicket and how Rohit, Kohli and Pandya pitched it.
Team India beat New Zealand in his third ODI of his three-game series at his 90-run Holker Cricket Stadium in Indore on Tuesday. With the win, Rohit Sharma and Co. threw a spanner in the guest’s works, winning the series 3-0. Opening for 212 runs from Rohit and Shubman Gill Thanks to his partnership, the Men in Blue saw him stack up to 385/9 in 50 overs. Gil hit 112 from 78 pitches and Rohit also hit 101 from 85 to end the drought of the century. Vice-captain Hardik Pandya scored a half-century (54 of 38) and Virat Kohli made a cameo appearance (36 of 27) to help the hosts. Team India then bundled New Zealand with him 295 in 41.2 overs. In the opener Devon his Conway scored a staggering 138 balls out of 100, a loss for the visitors.
Flat Indore on his pitch, three New Zealand batsmen were dismissed for the ducks, one of whom was captain Tom Latham. On the first ball of 26 overs, Shardul Thakur removed middle order batter Daryl Mitchell and on the next delivery Latham was knuckled by Pandya in the mid-off area. Thakur’s two dismissals gave India the lead as New Zealand came under pressure with 184/4 in 25.2 overs.
In the post-match interaction, Thakur, Player of the Match, explained the plan behind Latham’s wicket and how Rohit, Kohli and Pandya pitched it.
Honestly, Tom Latham’s wicket was a surprise. Yes, we expected something like this to happen. )” Then Hardik stood in the middle, and he said, “Confident, hi? (Are you confident?), roll?” I said yes, I am confident. So he (Hardik) said “Bindass daal” (then do it!). Then he Rohit asked me, “What are you doing?” He (Latham) might be expecting a short ball or a long ball, so I said I was going to surprise him first by playing slow ball. Rohit said, “Okay, let’s do it,” Thakur said in a video shared by his BCCI. So the three of us (Kohi, Pandya, Rohit) and I were on the same page and chose the slower one. And I think Tom Latham was surprised by such a delivery. Yes, we were able to take his wicket.It’s a shame we missed a hat-trick on the next ball. But when Glenn Phillips came in, we tried to make something similar to what we did with Tom Latham,” he added.
Gill, on the other hand, was declared a player of the series as in three matches he scored 360 runs, a surreal average of 180.00.