New Zealand needed 3 runs to win in the last over. Ross Taylor needed 5 runs. Only then did Taylor run the run of runs in the one-day match with the highest individual score!
Shane Watson must remember that innings. In 2011, Watson dropped just 229 runs in Bangladesh, 185 runs alone! This is the highest individual score in an ODI run chase. No, Taylor did not own that record. Henry Nicholas could not score any runs in the first two overs of Englishman Tom Carran, but he won the New Zealand for the third time by scoring a third!
Did Taylor get sorrow? Not at all. Today's innings in Dunedin is probably Taylor's career. Taylor scored an unbeaten 181 in England's first innings of 335 against New Zealand in 9th over. New Zealand, in the one-day series, will face a daunting 2-wicket margin with five balls to spare. The last match of the Christchurch series on Saturday.
Taylor will move to 34 tomorrow Today, his game will be one of the best innings in ODI history, given the gift given to himself. When the birthday of the light of the fire! Earlier, in 2011, 131 runs were played in the innings of birthday. And this time, six-six and 17 fours in 14 balls to play, one-third of the epic innings he has dug! The legs got hurt. Taylor, who played the highest innings for New Zealand, scored runs after being run out of breath.
The record was earlier captured by Martin Guptill. Kiwi opener played 180 against South Africa in Hamilton last year. Tailor has made a great contribution to his career-best 19th one-day international century. He has hit four centuries in one-day internationals (17). But Vire Richards's innings of 189 runs in the batting of four Taylor is second in the list.
This is the ninth instance of winning a minimum of 336 runs in ODIs. New Zealand, by winning this run or more than three runs in India, chased down New Zealand But they did not have much hope in their beginning. Opener Colin Monroe (0) returned to the first ball of the second over before the team scored a scoreboard! Back to the third over, Guptillo (0). New Zealand scores 2 for 2!
Kane Williamson and Taylor put on 84 runs in the third wicket, But the fourth wicket New Zealand returned to the winning ways. Tom Latham and Taylor put on 187 runs in 155 balls. Earlier, Joe Root (102) and Jonny Bairstow (138) scored centuries for England. England's stormy batting looked at four hundred times! But New Zealand have bowled well in the end.