Brendon McCullum credits Guptill after series win – Cricket News
Jubilant with his side’s stunning victory against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 captain, credited Martin Guptill for securing a series
victory against the home team.
Having won the toss, the visitors opted to bat first in ideal batting conditions. It turned out to be a great decision, as the Black Caps posted a mammoth total of 359 runs on the board for the loss of just three wickets.
Guptill played out of his skin and scored an unbeaten 189, which is the highest individual score in an ODI by a New Zealander. The right-hander struck 19 fours and a couple of massive hits out of the park.
The Poms managed to score just 273 runs in reply before being bowled out in the 45th over of the innings, losing the fixture by 86 runs.
While expressing his delight after the post-match presentation ceremony, the wicketkeeper/batsman showered praise on Guptill and Ross Taylor, who scored his second consecutive half-century of the series.
"Credit to Martin in these two games and also http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Christopher-Alroy-Martin-c50714 does and he did it again today. I didn't think it was a 360 surface, maybe 300-320 wicket,” said the Kiwi
skipper.
The captain himself played a wonderful cameo at the end, blasting 40 runs off merely 19 balls; however, he believes that the foundation was laid down by the top-order batsmen.
He added, “The intent Martin and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Guptill-c1980 show. It's been really pleasing after the Test series,
we're an experienced one-day unit and we're hard to beat.”
Not surprisingly, Guptill was named as the Player of the Match. With the last match of the series scheduled to be played the day after tomorrow at Nottingham, the right-handed opening batsman is the favourite to clinch the Man
of the Series award, having scored two match-winning centuries in as many matches.
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