New Zealand vs India 2020: Kane Williamson Delighted With Team’s Outstanding Performance
Feb 11, 2020 at 4:58 PM
Kiwi skipper Kane Williamson, who was out for the first two games, returned in the third ODI, also, leading his team to victory. At Bay Oval, New Zealand managed to clean sweep India after winning the third game by five wickets. The skipper was delighted with his team’s performance against the tough competitor India.
On Tuesday (11th February), the game witnessed the overall contribution from the Kiwis. Henry Nicholls (80), Martin Guptill (66), Tom Latham (32*), Colin de Grandhomme (58*) contribution led them to chase down the target of 297 runs.
Talking about their bowling attack, Hamish Bennett was the highest wicket-taker, picking four wickets at an economy rate of 6.4. While the allrounder James Neesham and Kyle Jamieson picked one wicket each.
The captain Kane Williamson, who scored 22 runs in third one-dayer, was delighted with the efforts of his team. He mentioned that there is always something to learn from Virat Kohli’s men.
Outstanding performance, India put us under pressure every game of this series and today, the first half the way boys fought with the ball was brilliant. The cricket smarts were outstanding to see and it’s something that the boys did that well throughout the series.
There are always things to learn from sides like India and it’s a great start and we are just building on these performances and looking forward to ODIs with Australia later on.
Kane Williamson on injury update:
During the T20I series, Kane Williamson suffered from the shoulder injury which led his ouster from the first two games of ODI.
After the third ODI, he said that he is still recovering from the pain.
“Its recovering (the shoulder) well which is a good thing”
Meanwhile, after winning the ODI series, confident New Zealand will play two-match Test series starting from 21st February.