New Zealand’s stand-in captain Tom Latham praised his bowlers for restricting India from a sure win in the second ODI at Eden Park in Auckland on Saturday. However, with this win, New Zealand won the three-match ODI series with one game left. After a humiliating whitewash in the five-match T20I series, this series win will help them to get back in the zone.

“It’s a great victory. The batters won the last game and today the bowlers did the job for us. It’s always a funny wicket, if you pick up early wickets, you are always in the game. That partnership for us towards the back-end was a vital one,” Tom Latham said, while talking about the 76-run unbroken stand for the ninth wicket between veteran Ross Taylor and debutant Kyle Jamieson.

India too had a similar recovery session from 153 for 7 with Navdeep Saini and Ravindra Jadeja adding 76 runs for the eighth wicket, before Jamieson cleaned up Saini for 45. Before that, Ross Taylor once again took the onus on his shoulder and put up a decent total for the Kiwis.

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“I was never satisfied till the last wicket was taken. It was about juggling the bowlers around. They kept coming back and Kyle on debut was fantastic today. It will be great to win 3-0, fingers crossed.” said Tom Latham.

Jamieson further said that he was yet to recover from the highs of the debut as well.

“I’m on a high at the moment, need time to sink it in,” he added. “The game ebbed and flowed all along. My approach with the bat was pretty simple, take it to the 50 overs.”

“A total of around 230-240, we would have been happy. I just wanted to stay there and stick with Ross, be there till the end. A surreal moment to get a wicket in the first over (of Prithvi Shaw), it was more relief than anything else, happy that I didn’t go for too many. International cricket is high intensity with a big crowd watching along,” he concluded.