New Zealand once again pushed the home side hard but ended up just 6 runs short of what would have been a memorable series victory for the Kiwis. Final of the series lived up to the expectation and produced a thrilling nail-biting finish.
Kiwis at one point were cruising thanks to some top order belligerence from Colin Munro and incredible late order resurgence from the star batsman Tom Latham but an ingenious display of fast bowling from Jasprit bumrah proved to be just too good for the visitors.
Bumrah”s excellence provided India the series win and Twitter was in awe of the young bowling maestro. Here is all the action.
https://twitter.com/RadioCricket/status/924667999428194305
Bumrah’s 3/47 off 10 overs was no less valuable than Rohit Sharma’s 147. Me thinks. 👏👏👏
— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) October 29, 2017
Bumrah was simply outstanding in the end. NZ fought really well but India were simply relentless to win the series after being 1-0 down
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281) October 29, 2017
7th consecutive bilateral ODI series win for India-most for India
7th consecutive series win for Virat- most by an Indian captain.#IndvNZ— Rajneesh Gupta (@rgcricket) October 29, 2017
https://twitter.com/BeingFlicked/status/924667485739040768
👉Jasprit Bumrah To Bowl
👉Santner On Strike
👉#Dhoni Comes With Expert Advice
👉Bumrah Executes With Perfection
👉Legendary🙏🇮🇳#INDvNZ #INDvsNZ pic.twitter.com/5lxLI7gmvb— Sir Jadeja fan (@SirJadeja) October 29, 2017
While everyone is congratulating #Kohli & Co @BCCI We all should collectively congratulate & applaud the performance of the @BLACKCAPS 👍✌️👊
— Mikkhail Vaswani (@MikkhailVaswani) October 29, 2017
Bumrah is unbelievable under pressure. Executes perfect Yorkers. Well disguised slower ones. And even direct hits. 👍🙌🏏 #IndvNZ
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) October 29, 2017
Rohit & Virat with the bat & Bumrah & Chahal with the ball. It’s not just batsmen winning matches for Ind these days. Congrats team India!
— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) October 29, 2017
Jasprit Bumrah is perhaps the finest death bowler in the world today, along with Hasan Ali and Mitch Starc #INDvNZ
— Hemant (@hemantbuch) October 29, 2017
In such a high scoring game, Bumrah and Chahal between them had 20-0-94-5 , exemplary performance in a run feast. Well done Team India .
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281) October 29, 2017
Perfect finish to a thrilling game. Great work @Jaspritbumrah93 @BhuviOfficial & @yuzi_chahal. Keep it up boys. My Best wishes for the T20Is pic.twitter.com/C74JbGGpb6
— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) October 29, 2017
Jasprit Bumrah has risen another notch as a top end overs bowler. Calm and effective
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) October 29, 2017
And that's a wrap from Kanpur. #TeamIndia seal the 3-match ODI series 2-1 #INDvNZ pic.twitter.com/yA27kd9Cva
— BCCI (@BCCI) October 29, 2017
What a comeback #TeamIndia👌Literally snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. Let's grab the T20 cup already😜 #IndvNz @BCCI. pic.twitter.com/MowZiVuWCp
— Suresh Raina🇮🇳 (@ImRaina) October 29, 2017
Havent seen such GREAT death bowling from India in a long long time.
— Gabbar (@GabbbarSingh) October 29, 2017
India's ODI series under Kohli:
5-0 v Zim '13
5-0 v SL '14
2-1 v Eng '17
3-1 v WI '17
5-0 v SL '17
4-1 v Aus '17
2-1 v NZWon all 7.
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) October 29, 2017
The name of Indian Cricket team's captain is Mahendra Kohli.
— Sagar (@sagarcasm) October 29, 2017
Good Series For @Tomlatham2 206 Runs in 3 Matches, 1 Hundred & 1 Fifty With SR of 95.4 👏👏 #INDvNZ
— Rajesh Khilare (@Cricrajeshpk) October 29, 2017
Well done team India for hard fought series win,Virat Rohit bumrah special effort guys #IndvsNZ
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) October 29, 2017
Inspite of the huge score, the last 4 overs from Bhuvi and Bumrah was eventually the difference. Great effort on winning the series @BCCI
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) October 29, 2017