Twitter Reactions: Mishra's five wicket haul guides India to a 3-2 series victory over New Zealand

The hosts ended up the series by winning things in style. Guided by spinners, India secured a 190 run victory over New Zealand to win the series 3-2. Earlier in the day, it was MS Dhoni who won the toss as India elected to bat for the first time in the series. India brought in debutant Jayant Yadav in place of Hardik Pandya while Kulkarni made way for Bumrah.

Batting first, Rahane got out after getting a brisk start. Rohit Sharma scored his first fifty in the series with a splendid 70(65) which had 3 sixes. Dhoni looked fine at the crease before he got trapped LBW in the 40s by Santner.

While Virat Kohli had another fantastic day in the field, he scored a quite composed innings pf 65(76), rotating the strike continuously and keeping the scoreboard ticking. As he started looking out for the big shots, he gave one to Guptill near long off.

However, it was Kedhar Jadhav who stepped up at the end with a 39(37)* while Axar Patel’s little cameo also made sure that India had almost enough runs on the board in this pitch. They ended up at 269/6 in their quota of 50 overs.

Boult was the pick of the bowlers with a couple of wickets while Neesham and Santner also got a wicket each. Sodhi got two wickets but was quite expensive. With the pitch turning, the target of 270 was never going to be easy with Indian spinners.

The Kiwi innings bought back some memories from their test performance. 5 batsmen got out scoring a duck as the Kiwis completely failed to combat the spinners. The Indian spinners turned the NZ batsmen to their tunes as the visitors got all out for a paltry 79 runs.

Mishra made full use of his opportunity as the forefront spinner with an amazing five-wicket haul. Axar also got a couple of wickets. Mishra was declared the man of the match as well as the player of the series.

Twitter was full of superb reactions regarding the game. Right from lauding Kohli and Rohit to trolling Manish Pandey, right from lauding Mishra and Axar to trolling the Kiwi batsmen, here are some of the best tweets that took place during the course of the game:

As usual Dhoni collects the trophy and gives it to Jayant Yadev who made his ODI debut today…

— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) October 29, 2016

Such a shame that Vijay Goel couldn't make it for the celebration photographs with the players#indvsnz

— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) October 29, 2016

India have won the series, but dont get carried away. #CT2017 in Eng, ball won't spin, batting order has heavy scoring rate issues. #IndvsNZ

— Srini Mama ? (@SriniMama16) October 29, 2016

Hope one day all the players put the name of their first Coach on their shirts 🙂 #IndvsNZ

— Gabbbar (@GabbbarSingh) October 29, 2016

Wonderful spell of leg-spin bowling from Amit Mishra. What a collapse ,last 8 wkts for 16 runs. Great Diwali gift.#INDvsNZ

— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) October 29, 2016

Kedar Jadhav the biggest positive for India in the series. Pandey, Axar didn't quite impress much. Bowling and Virat Kohli won India series

— Nikhil ? (@CricCrazyNIKS) October 29, 2016

Pace scares you, spin embarrasses you. That's exactly what has happened in Vizag. Spin to Win. #IndvNZ

— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) October 29, 2016

Surely New Zealand will bat better in their second innings #INDvNZ

— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) October 29, 2016

If only Sachin had played today's game, we would have seen Sachin playing with a jersey name that would have read Rajni. #indvsnz

— Gopalakrishnan (@gopivasudevan) October 29, 2016

Mishra is a wizard with the ball. Skill of the highest quality. A treat to watch him fox batsmen with his craft! Absolute magic! #IndvsNZ

— Srini Mama ? (@SriniMama16) October 29, 2016

https://twitter.com/altcricket/status/792351608281690112

This is more than enough score for team India to defend on this slow pitch #indvsnz

— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) October 29, 2016

Inspite of a patchy series, MS Dhoni ends up as the second highest run scorer for India. Strike rate remains a concern though. #INDvNZ

— Sameer Allana (@HitmanCricket) October 29, 2016

https://twitter.com/altcricket/status/792333158494695424

Rohit falls and takes with him his daddy's second name and his mother's first name. #indvsnz

— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) October 29, 2016

Unlike Sachin, Rohit scores when needed. #IndVsNZ

— Maithun – HMP (@Being_Humor) October 29, 2016

If India wins today we can actually say,
"Har kamyab aadmi ke pichhe ek aurat ka naam hota hai." 🙂 #IndVsNz

— Mohit Ghune (@Ghunegaar) October 29, 2016

rohit can assure himself of a double hundred here by running virat out #indvsNZ

— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) October 29, 2016

Rahane will always be there to captain the ODI team to Zimbabwe. As will Stuart Binny.#indvsnz

— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) October 29, 2016

It has been 12 consecutive home ODIs for India without a 50+ opening stand. #IndvsNZ

— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) October 29, 2016

Disappointed to see NZ bowlers putting so much effort to get Rohit Sharma out. Clearly lack of Cricketing sense. #IndvNz

— ️Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) October 29, 2016

Amit Mishra, The Slow Assasin #indvsNZ #IndvNz

— Be Yusuf (@barmare_yusuf) October 29, 2016

Lol Amit Mishra #NayiSoch New Zealand by 190 Kane Williamson #INDvsNZ #INDvNZ pic.twitter.com/YmQgHhmUyH

— Sir Manish Pandey (@manish_pie) October 29, 2016

As usual @msdhoni collects the trophy and gives it to Jayant Yadev who made his ODI debut today.#INDvNZ pic.twitter.com/pat90iXqTL

— RajnikantV/sCIDJokes (@RVCJ_FB) October 29, 2016

Most wickets in an ODI series v NZ among spinners:

14 AMIT MISHRA*, 2016*
13 Shane Warne, 1993
13 Sunil Narine, 2012#INDvNZ

— @KaNyAkUmArI VFC (@kaththiasbin) October 29, 2016

India batting first for the first time in this series…have also played an extra spinner. Time is ripe for Rohit to fire. #indvsnz

— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) October 29, 2016