The Indian team achieved a wonderful victory on the ground of Auckland. First the bowlers performed brilliantly and after that, Team India won the match on the basis of the batting of Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli. In this match, Arshdeep Singh took 4 wickets and Virat Kohli scored 74 runs in 51 balls but Anshul Kamboj became the hero of this match. This fast bowler took 2 wickets in the match but he was given the Player of the Match award. Know why this happened?
Anshul Kamboj became player of the match
Anshul Kamboj The main reason for becoming the player of the match was his economical bowling. This player took 2 wickets for 22 runs in 10 overs. The bowling of this player was so amazing that he did not give any runs in 46 balls. This player bowled amazingly in Auckland. He troubled the Kiwi batsmen a lot with his short off length bowling. Anshul Kamboj dismissed Mitchell Santner and Nathan Smith.
Amazing comeback of Anshul Kamboj
Anshul Kamboj made his ODI debut against West Indies last month in which he gave away 82 runs. Now he was given a chance again and this player won Player of the Match in his second match.
Anshul Kamboj’s player of the match is special
Let us tell you that Anshul Kamboj is the 7th Indian bowler to become the player of the match by taking just 2 wickets. Before this, Jasprit Bumrah also got the Player of the Match for taking 2 wickets twice. First of all, in the year 1990, Anil Kumble received the Player of the Match award for taking 2 wickets in an ODI against England.
India’s victory
Talking about the match, New Zealand batted first and scored 185 runs. New Zealand’s batsmen could not perform anything special and Tim Seifert scored the highest score of 38 runs. Glenn Phillips played an inning of 30 runs. Blair Tickner, coming at number 11, played an inning of 34 runs and somehow took New Zealand to 185. After this, Team India had a bad start, Rohit was out on 0 but then Virat and Captain Gill made Team India win by making a partnership of 113 runs in 104 balls.