Chasing down a target of 434 runs, New Zealand went up and down in reaching the target. The visitors with only six wickets in hand started the Day-5 with hopes to win the first Test match of the series. But team India broke down their defence to register a 197-run win and lead the series 1-0.
Rather than talking much about batting, Indian bowling was outstanding by Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, and Mohammad Shami. In the first Innings, Jadeja picked up 5-wickets and scored 50 runs, whereas Ashwin picked up 4 wickets in the first innings and 6 wickets in the second innings. Ashwin has become the quickest Indian bowler to take 200 wickets in Tests. Hence, Twitterati wasn’t just happy; they also congratulated the efforts of Indian bowlers.
Former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag was the first to congratulate team India and record breaker Ravichandran Ashwin on Twitter.
RecordChandran Ashwin.
Well done on the first set of 200 wickets.
Surely many more sets to go@ashwinravi99 .— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) September 25, 2016
Twitter Reactions:
Did Ravi Shastrii lose a bet? #indiavsnewzealand pic.twitter.com/wc3UpJPSQu
— Alex Ninkov (@alexninkov) September 26, 2016
Me: “Is this India’s 500th Test?”
Siva: “Yes”
Gavaskar: [West Indian accent] “Yah man”
Shastri: “BCCI can neither confirm nor deny rumours”— Alt Cricket (@AltCricket) September 26, 2016
Well done @imVkohli and @anilkumble1074 , great start to the home season.
Pujara, Vijay, Jadeja , Ashwin were exceptional.— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) September 26, 2016
Shami loves disturbing the furniture with the ball. Has a mindset of a Pakistani fast bowler in that sense. #IndvNZ
— cricBC (@cricBC) September 26, 2016
Mohammed Shami just gave a glimpse of what he did on his debut in Kolkata 3 yrs back.#indvsnz #INDvNZ #500thTest
— Chinmay Jawalekar? (@CricfreakTweets) September 26, 2016
ultimate show of late reverse swing by @MdShami11 .. looking like @ImZaheer is back on ground @StarSportsIndia #500thtest #indvsnz
— Arnab Goswami (@irahulchitti) September 26, 2016
Uprooted to end the Test tour for Craig(1), Mohammed Shami is making the old ball talk with his reverse swing. #indvsnz
— Yash Padh (@yashpadh) September 26, 2016
Game in to 2nd session of final day. Plenty runs scored and assistance for spinners and reverse. Pretty good Test surface overall.
— Subash Jayaraman (@thecricketcouch) September 26, 2016
Slowly getting convinced that Vettori took off his glasses, got a clean shave and changed his name to Mitchell Santner
— Sidvee (@sidvee) September 26, 2016
Indian team playing at home is like ur mom asking u to get something from market. No credit on winning but u r screwed if u lose #INDvNZ
— Cricket Bakchod (@AllTimeBakchod) September 26, 2016
INDIAN FANS
Pic1:- when India wins at home.
Pic2:- when India loses at home. #IndvsNZ pic.twitter.com/GkiM950cDE— Hitman Cricket (@HitmanCricket) September 26, 2016
Ashwin bowling seam up, just to mock the new ball
— 15Degrees (@desigiri82) September 26, 2016
Can’t take my eyes off even for a second when Ashwin bowls! #indvsnz
— Nikita Iyer (@nikitaiyer2) September 26, 2016
Ashwin has got to be the greatest trickster in cricket since Shane Warne! #indvsnz
— Adarsh Gautam (@_GothamGuy) September 26, 2016
10 wickets in the match.. with a corn on his bowling hand. And Ashwin said he wasnt happy how the ball was coming out…! #IndvNZ
— Chetan Narula (@chetannarula) September 26, 2016
Jadeja chipped in with vital runs then took 5, triggering game changing collapse. Top order then again piled on runs. Ashwin did his thing.
— Nikhil ? (@CricCrazyNIKS) September 26, 2016
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