WATCH: Ross Taylor bids adieu to Test cricket with a wicket off his last ball
New Zealand have levelled the two-match Test series against Bangladesh with a thumping win by an innings and 117 runs. This was also the last Test match of veteran Ross Taylor‘s career who had announced that he will hang his boots after the home summer before the series. He will still play his last few matches in ODIs and T20Is but this game turned out to be his last in the whites.
And it was a memorable ending for Taylor as he picked up a wicket off the last ball of his career. The man who tormented the bowling attacks at will during his illustrious career was given the red cherry in his hands when Bangladesh’s last wicket was yet to fall. It was only the eighth time in his 112-Test long career that Taylor was bowling and he struck off the third ball of the over itself.
Ebadot Hossain blocked the first two deliveries but couldn’t stop himself from slogging the third one. The ball could only reach the mid-wicket fielder where the Kiwi skipper Tom Latham was fielding who grabbed a good catch. It was a kind of fairy-tale ending as the whole team rallied around Ross Taylor to celebrate the victory and a great Test career. Even the crowd was on its feet to applaud the veteran cricketer for one final time in Test cricket.
Here’s the video:
Oct 2013 was the last time Ross Taylor bowled in a Test: 1 over vs Bangladesh in Chattogram
Bowls three deliveries 8 yrs later and ends his career with a wicket
Ross Taylor was criminally underbowled in his career, maybe we’ll see some in the ODIs
— Sritama Panda (Ross Taylor’s Version) (@cricketpun_duh) January 11, 2022
