Desk. The fourth ODI match was played between India and New Zealand at the Bay Oval ground in Mount Maunganui. In this match, Team India had to face defeat by a huge margin of 244 runs. Matt Henry and Will Young were the heroes of this victory of New Zealand. Matt Henry bowled brilliantly and took 6 wickets for 27 runs. Whereas Will Young played an excellent inning of 125 runs. Team India, which set out to chase the target of 334 runs, had a very bad start. Henry was given the Player of the Match award for his excellent bowling. He is the first Kiwi bowler to take five wicket haul twice against India in ODI.
The first over of this match will always be memorable for New Zealand fast bowler Matt Henry. Every bowler dreams of doing the feat he did in this over. He got Rohit Sharma caught out in the slips on the very first ball. After this, Virat Kohli was bowled on the fifth ball. On the last ball of the over, he also dismissed Shreyas Iyer with a brilliant and fast ball. The special thing is that big players like Rohit and Virat were out in the same match without opening an account, which has happened for the first time since 2010.
Matt Henry made many achievements in this match by taking 6 wickets. He has overtaken Tim Southee in terms of taking maximum 5 wickets for New Zealand. For Matt Henry, this was the fourth five-wicket haul in ODIs. Whereas Tim Southee had done this feat thrice. The record of taking maximum 5 wickets for New Zealand is in the name of Trent Boult. He did this feat 6 times. At the same time, Matt Henry has become the first bowler to take five wicket haul twice for New Zealand in ODI against India.
Matt Henry dismissed 3 players for just 16 runs in his first 6 overs, while Kyle Jamieson also took 1 wicket for just 12 runs in 6 overs. Matthew Fisher took 3 wickets for 31 runs in 7 overs. Barring one innings of Virat Kohli in this ODI series, Indian batting has been seen struggling a lot in the rest of the series. Team India is still ahead 2-1 in this five-match series. The fifth match of the series will be played on this ground on 15 November.