India pulled off an exciting win over New Zealand within the first ODI of the three-match collection on the Rajiv Gandhi Worldwide Stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday, January 18.
Batting first, India posted a mammoth whole of 349/8 on the board of their allotted overs. Opening batter Shubman Gill smacked his highest rating within the format and joined the elite membership of ODI double centurions.
Gill hit 208 off simply 149 balls with the assistance of 19 fours and 9 sixes. Captain Rohit Sharma (34 off 38) and Suryakumar Yadav (31 off 26) have been the opposite two batters to cross the thirty-figure mark within the Indian innings.
Other than Gill’s scintillating ton, the opposite spotlight within the first essay was the controversial dismissal of vice-captain Hardik Pandya. Although Pandya might rating solely 28 runs after dealing with 38 balls, he stored the scoreboard ticking earlier than being given out within the fortieth over.
On the fourth supply of the over bowled by Daryl Mitchell, Pandya tried to defend the ball, angling in direction of him. The white leather-based, which handed very near the stumps, was collected by the New Zealand wicketkeeper Tom Latham. Within the course of, one of many bails received dislodged. The choice was then despatched upstairs to the TV umpire, who, after trying on the incident from totally different angles, dominated the ball ‘out’.
Former Indian cricketer Ravi Shastri, who was doing commentary in the intervening time, believed that the choice was unfair to the batter. “Oh, it’s been given out! Daryl Mitchell must be comfortable,” Shastri mentioned on-air.
“Ought to actually be comfortable, as a result of that, should you have a look once more as to the place the keeper’s gloves are, the place the ball is because it passes the stumps, it appeared as if the ball was a minimum of an inch, inch-and-a-half above the stumps … ball clearly appears to be above the bail. You may see because it goes previous into the gloves, there’s no pink gentle, it’s solely after that. There you go. From that angle you possibly can see that the gloves are nearer to the bails than the ball,” he added.
Identical to Shastri and lots of others, the choice additionally didn’t go down effectively with Hardik’s spouse Natasa Stankovic as she took to her Instagram to criticize the controversial dismissal. She uploaded a picture of Hardik’s uncertain dismissal on her Instagram story and captioned it, “There was no bat concerned, wasn’t bowled out. So how’s this out?”
In the meantime, in reply to India’s huge whole, New Zealand managed to succeed in 337 in 49.2 overs. All-rounder Michael Bracewell shined for the Blackcaps, smashing 140 off simply 78 balls (12 fours and 1. He was the final man to be dismissed within the fiftieth over of the second innings.
