Tim Southee Bowling Records: The first match of the three-match ODI series between Team India and New Zealand is being played in Auckland. Team India’s batsmen thrashed the Kiwi bowlers while batting first. Batting first, the Indian team scored 306 runs at the loss of seven wickets in the allotted 50 overs. Team India openers Shubman Gill and Shikhar Dhawan shared a 124-run partnership for the first wicket. In this match, Kiwi bowler Tim Southee wrote his name in golden letters on the pages of history.
This special record was registered in the name of Tim Southee:
Tim Southee, who emerged as the main bowler of the Kiwi team for the last decade, did a great job in this match. He made such a record of cricket in his name which no other bowler has been able to do till date. In the first ODI against India, Kiwi fast bowler Tim Southee completed his 200 wickets in ODI cricket while creating history. Saudi had also done the feat of taking more than 100 wickets in T20 and more than 300 wickets in Test. He became the only bowler in the world to have taken more than 100 wickets in T20Is, more than 200 wickets in ODIs and more than 300 wickets in Tests.
Let us tell you that this New Zealand fast bowler has so far taken 347 wickets in 166 innings of 88 matches at an average of 29 in Test cricket. Apart from this, Saudi has taken a total of 134 wickets in T20 Internationals so far. Whereas in ODIs, he has 202 wickets in 149 matches. In the first ODI against India, he took three big wickets for 73 runs. Tim Southee, one of New Zealand’s most successful bowlers, has so far taken more than 500 wickets in cricket.
The condition of the Indian innings was something like this:
Batting first, the Indian team gave a target of 307 runs to the Kiwi team to win. Indian team opener Shubman Gill and Shikhar Dhawan shared a 124-run partnership for the first wicket. After that Shreyas Iyer and Sanju Samson took the team’s score forward quickly. In the last over, Washington Sundar took the team’s score beyond 300 runs while batting fire. Shreyas Iyer scored the highest 80 runs for Team India in this match. Apart from him, Dhawan made a big contribution of 72 runs while playing the captaincy innings. At the same time, Shubman got out after scoring 50 runs.
Source: newstrack.com”