The young Indian all-rounder Washington Sundar is stunning everyone with his amazing performance in the ongoing first of the three-match T20I series against New Zealand. He has scalped two wickets by conceding only 22 runs in his quota of 4 overs. Apart from that, the 23-year-old has also shown a sensational athleticism on the field while.
He stunned everyone when he caught Kiwi batter Mark Chapman off his own delivery on the last ball of the fifth over of the first innings. Sundar went on for a full-length stretched dive to the right region to him. Although umpires had to clear this decision with the TV umpire and later on, the decision went in favor of Washy and the Indian team.
The video of this amazing blinder taken by Washington Sundar is now making rounds on social media within minutes of being shared at the official Twitter handle of broadcaster Star Sports.
Here’s the video:
Washington Sundar, you beauty. What a catch. pic.twitter.com/Jqaes7fesS
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) January 27, 2023
Talking about the current action of the match, the Kiwi team has scored 149 runs for the loss of five wickets in 18.5 overs. Devon Conway scored a half-century of 52 runs off 35 balls with seven boundaries and a six to his name. Other than him, Finn Allen played an individual knock of 35 runs off 23 balls with four boundaries and two sixes on his credit.
Currently, Daryl Mitchell and skipper Mitchell Santner are there in the middle with individual scores of 33 and 7 runs respectively.
Apart from two wickets claimed by Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, and Kuldeep Yadav claimed one wicket each.
Earlier, the Indian team won the three-match ODI series against New Zealand by a clean sweep margin of 3-0 under the captaincy of skipper regular skipper Rohit Sharma. Young batter Shubman Gill ended up the series by equalizing a world record of 360 runs in a single three-match ODI series alongside Pakistan skipper Babar Azam.