Twitter Reactions: Indian bowlers rule as Kiwis bundle up for a low score

New Zealand’s woes do not seem to end. Coming into the ODI series, New Zealand hoped for revival of fortunes. They were bolstered by the return of Corey Anderson and Tim Southee. India fielded Kedar Jadhav in place of Suresh Raina in the playing eleven. All-rounder Hardik Pandya made his ODI debut. Indian skipper MS Dhoni resumed the captaincy duties in the limited overs. After winning the toss, India put in New Zealand to bat first.

New Zealand openers Martin Guptill and Tom Latham walked into the middle as Umesh Yadav took the new ball. Skipper Dhoni sprung a surprise as he handed the ball to Hardik Pandya to share the new ball ahead of Jasprit Bumrah. Pandya delivered the goods too and dismissed Martin Guptill early in the innings. Kane Williamson continued his poor run on the tour as he perished trying to slash one over the third man off the bowling of Umesh Yadav.

Yadav also accounted for Ross Taylor’s golden duck. Hardik Pandya was amongst the wickets yet again. He finished with figures of 3/31 on debut. Wickets kept falling in heap and New Zealand were staring right at a potential lowest ODI score for them. Kedar Jadhav came in to bowl his part-timers ahead of regular spinners Amit Mishra and Axar Patel.

Jadhav, who has only 1 wicket in domestic cricket in 79 matches, struck gold today. He scalped two wickets in two balls to leave New Zealand reeling on 67/7 by the end of 19 overs. Tim Southee was dropped on 2 by Umesh Yadav. It was an absolute sitter that should have been taken. Earlier in the day, he had grabbed a stunner to dismiss Corey Anderson.

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Towards the end of the innings, Tom Latham brought up his half century. He was well supported by Tim Southee who struck his maiden fifty as well. New Zealand eventually wrapped up on 190 in 43.5 overs. The Twitterati had a lot to talk about and were very active in highlighting the key aspects of the match.

Here are the best tweets from the New Zealand innings:

Hardik Pandya bowled ahead of Bumrah and took 3 wickets, Kedar Jadav bowled ahead of Mishra took 2 wickets.

Courtesy – MS Dhoni #INDvsNZ

— Khurram Siddiquee (@imKhurram12) October 16, 2016

Tom Latham (79*) + Tim Southee – 134 runs
Guptill + Williamson + Taylor + Anderson + Ronchi + Neesham + Santner – 29 runs#INDvNZ

— Sidhant Maheshwari (@msidhant) October 16, 2016

Batsman to carry the Bat in ODI:

G Flower
S Anwar
N Knight
R Jacobs
D Martyn
H Gibbs
A Stewart
J Omar
A Ali
T Latham ( Today )

— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) October 16, 2016

Dhoni to Axar "Bappu ye perfect tha".

Axar in mind " Perfect tha to uss din last 2 balls pe sixer kyu mara tha ?". ?

— ️Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) October 16, 2016

#INDvsNZ, 1st ODI: NZ – 105/7 (31) | Tom Latham brings up his 5th fifty in ODIs. pic.twitter.com/MYIRZazOcj

— CricTracker (@Cricketracker) October 16, 2016

What did I just see ??

Baba Ram…..etc??

— Godman Chikna (@Madan_Chikna) October 16, 2016

I always wondered how Indian cricketers felt on long foreign tours where they lost everything. Can ask this NZ side the same.

— Rohit Yoda (@rohitshahmi07) October 16, 2016

Summary Of New Zealand's Inning… 😉

RT If Agree. 😉 #INDvsNZ #INDvNZ
Kedar Jadhav, Hardik Pandya, Umesh Yadav pic.twitter.com/PkKcVdE8p7

— Sir Ravindra Jadeja (@SirJadejaaaa) October 16, 2016

New Zealand today:

Yes No Ashwin: ?

No Ash: 14/1 ?

No Ash: 29/2 ?

No Ash: 33/3?

No Ash: 43/4?

No Ash: 48/5?

Noo: 65/6 ?

Nooo: 65/7 ?

— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) October 16, 2016

At a height of 5800 feet above sea level, NZ reaches a batting low, 72/7.

— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) October 16, 2016

New Zealand batsmen have been midoff-midon-magnets today.#IndvNZ #INdvsNZ

— Suneer (@suneerchowdhary) October 16, 2016

Kedar Jadhav is the first spinner to bowl in this game
It has been almost 9 years yet I will never understand MS Dhoni's captaincy #IndvNZ

— Shubh AggarWall (@shubh_chintak) October 16, 2016

Disappointing by NZ. Batsmen have looked dazed or stupefied. Lost cause barring a miracle, which is never easy to come by

— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) October 16, 2016

New Zealand 68/7. Expect Dhoni to go for the kill, might bring on Rahane #indvnz

— Nikhil Mane ??? (@nikhiltait) October 16, 2016

Looks Like New Zealand's Team Came At Dharmasala Just For Sight Seeing !!#IndvsNz #IndvNz

— Babu Bhaiya (@Shahrcasm) October 16, 2016

https://twitter.com/AltCricket/status/787588070149423104

No disrespect but if Kedar Jhadav is picking up wickets then we know the Kiwis have gone from bad to worse. #INDvsNZ

— Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73) October 16, 2016

V good from Msd to open with Pandya. Nicely thought. Unless NZ post something sizeable Ind has the match. This is no nagpur dutbowl. #INDvNZ

— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar) October 16, 2016

After resting Ashwin and Jadeja, India might now have to rest Kedar Jadhav.#IndvNZ

— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) October 16, 2016

Jadhav ~ Bhai Usne Itna Easy Cath Kyu Diya ?

Santner ~ Ruk Bhai Puch Ke Aata Hu…#IndvsNZ

— Babu Bhaiya (@Shahrcasm) October 16, 2016

Ross Taylor So Far In India (most recent first)

0, 0, 32, 36, 4, 0, 17

Runs 89
Avg 12.71 pic.twitter.com/xdbVYC9PMm

— Cricketopia (@CricketopiaCom) October 16, 2016