India clinched a memorable victory in their 900th ODI match as they beat New Zealand in the 1st ODI of 5-match ODI series at Dharamsala. After winning the toss, India decided to bowl first. Except for Tom Latham, all New Zealand top order batsmen failed against Indian bowling. With the help of some brave lower-order partnerships, New Zealand managed to score 190 in 43.5 overs (190/10).
In reply, India comfortably chased that target. India successfully reached the target in 33.1 overs after losing 4 wickets. India won this ODI by 6 wickets and is leading the 5-match ODI series by 1-0.
Brief Scores: New Zealand – 190 in 43.5 overs (Tom Latham 79*, Tim Southee 55, Hardik Pandya 3/31)
India – 194/4 in 33.1 overs (Virat Kohli 85*, Ajinkya Rahane 33, Ish Sodhi 1/34)
Result – India won by 6 wickets
Some of the statistical highlights of the match are given below:
- This ODI was India’s 900th One Day International. India became the first team to play 900 ODIs.
- Indian pace-allrounder Hardik Pandya made his ODI debut in this match. Pandya took his first ODI wicket in his 1st ODI over. Since 2001, Pandya became the 5thIndian bowler to take a wicket in the 1st over on ODI debut. The other 4 Indian bowlers are Aavishkar Salvi, Rohan Gavaskar, Rahul Sharma and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
- Indian leg-spinner Amit Mishra completed his 50 ODI wickets in this match and it was his 32nd ODI match. In this ODI, Amit Mishra became the fastest Indian spinner to complete 50 ODI wickets. The previous fastest Indian spinner to complete 50 ODI wickets was the off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin who had achieved this feat in 34 ODIs.
Also, Amit Mishra became the fourth fastest Indian bowler to complete 50 ODI wickets. The top three fastest Indian bowlers to achieve this feat are Ajit Agarkar (23 ODIs), Mohammed Shami (29 ODIs) and Irfan Pathan (31 ODIs).
- New Zealand wicketkeeper-batsman Luke Ronchi scored a duck in this ODI. Ronchi became the 2nd New Zealand wicketkeeper-batsman to score a duck in an ODI on the Indian soil. Ian Smith was the first New Zealand wicketkeeper-batsman to score a duck in an ODI on the Indian soil and that was also against India at Nagpur on 31st October 1987.
- New Zealand lower-order batsman Tim Southee played an important knock of 55 runs during New Zealand’s innings. It was the first ODI half-century by a no.10 New Zealand batsman and 6th ODI half-century by no.10 overall batsman.
Southee’s 55 was the 5th highest ODI score by no.10 batsman.
- New Zealand batsmen Tom Latham and Tim Southee put on a valuable 71-runs partnership for the 9th wicket which was the fourth highest 9th wicket ODI partnership for New Zealand.
- In this ODI, New Zealand opening batsman Tom Latham (79*) carried his bat during New Zealand’s innings. Latham became the first New Zealand batsman and 10th overall batsman to carry the bat in an ODI innings.
- New Zealand opening batsman Tom Latham remained unbeaten on 79 runs. It was the 5th highest ODI score by a New Zealand opening batsman against India on Indian soil.
- Debutant Indian pacer Hardik Pandya bowled very well in this ODI. His final bowling figure in his debutant ODI was 7-0-31-3. It was the 4th best bowling figure by an ODI debutant Indian bowler.
10. 3 New Zealand batsmen scored ducks during New Zealand’s innings in this ODI. It was the 2nd time in ODI history that 3 or more New Zealand batsmen scored ducks in an ODI innings against India on the Indian soil. The first one was in Chennai on 10th December 2010, where 3 New Zealand batsmen had scored ducks against India. There are no incidents where more than 3 New Zealand batsmen scored ducks in an ODI innings against India on the Indian soil.
Also, it was the 6th occasion where 3 or more New Zealand batsmen scored ducks in an ODI innings against India. Only once there were more than 3 New Zealand batsmen scored ducks in an ODI innings against India and that was at Napier on 3rdmarch 2009 where 4 New Zealand batsmen scored ducks.
11. This win was MS Dhoni’s 108th ODI as captain which puts him 2nd on the list of captains with most ODI win. Ricky Ponting leads with 165 ODI wins.
12. ODI Debutant Hardik Pandya won Man of the Match award in this match. Pandya became the 4th Indian cricketer to win the Man of the Match award on his ODI debut. The other three Indian cricketers, who had achieved this feat before Pandya, were: Sandeep Patil, Mohit Sharma and KL Rahul.
13. During this ODI, Indian skipper MS Dhoni faced his 10,000th ODI balls. After this ODI, Dhoni has faced 10,013 balls in his ODI career. Dhoni became the 5th Indian cricketer to face 10,000+ balls in ODI career after Mohammad Azharuddin (12,669), Sachin Tendulkar (21,367), Sourav Ganguly (15,416) and Rahul Dravid (15,284).