New Zealand batter Tom Latham joined iconic Brendon McCullum for the very best variety of fifties as a wicketkeeper for the Kiwis within the World Cup. Latham’s measured knock performed an important position in taking New Zealand’s rating to 288-6 throughout their conflict towards Afghanistan on the MA Chidambaram Stadium. Latham struck 68 off 74 balls to push the Kiwis to a aggressive whole. This was the third time in his profession he struck a rating of greater than 50 within the World Cup for New Zealand.

Before Latham’s game-changing knock, McCullum held the file for many 50-plus scores (3) for the Blackcaps within the World Cup as a wicketkeeper. Lee Germon with a single 50-plus rating can also be part of this membership.

New Zealand defeated Afghanistan by 149 runs to proceed their successful run within the World Cup. After placing up a difficult whole, the Kiwis made no mistake in defending the 288-run goal.

All-rounder Mitchell Santner reacts to reaching uncommon milestone in ODI

New Zealand all-rounder Mitchell Santner expressed his delight after turning into solely the second Kiwi spinner to achieve 100 ODI scalps following their victory over Afghanistan

Santner clinched three wickets which noticed him develop into simply the second Black Caps spinner to achieve 100 ODI dismissals, following within the footsteps of iconic spinner Daniel Vettori.

“It’s obviously nice to get to that milestone. I guess I wasn’t thinking about it too much leading into the game it’s just about trying to perform my role and do a job out there just like every other game. I think I’m 200 odd wickets behind him, so it’s going to be a tough challenge to get there,” Santner mentioned within the post-match convention.

Santner’s (11) wonderful begin on the Indian pitches not solely sees him high the general wicket-taking charts, he now has nearly double the tally of the next-highest spinner in that checklist – Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan (6).

But the 31-year-old says the key to his success has extra been derived from the strain that’s constructed by his workforce’s opening bowlers – Trent Boult and Matt Henry.

“It’s obviously nice to come here and see the ball spin a little bit, you don’t really get those (wickets) in New Zealand. I think as a whole, we’ve been bowling in partnerships, that’s what we talk about. The guys up front today Boult and Matt Henry did an exceptional job in getting that run rate up, and then it kind of makes them want to play bigger shots in the middle (overs),” Santner mentioned.

“I think as a partnership, as a unit, we’ve been bowling pretty well and I was lucky to chip in today for a few. But I think the way the seam has kind of set that up was massive for us,” Santner added.

Santner was on a floor that’s fairly acquainted to him as he options within the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Chennai Super Kings.

“I guess when we turn up here for IPL, we’ve played on wickets that kind of look similar to that. Today, it looked like it swung a little bit and actually spun a little bit more under lights, which kind of helped that we lost the toss and batted first,” Santner famous.

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