The 35-year-old is playing the 100th Test match of his career and is now the first cricketer in the history of the sport to play 100 matches in all the 3 international formats.
New Zealand cricketer Ross Taylor was greeted with a standing ovation by the fan inside Basin Reserve in Wellington on Saturday (February 22) when he came out to bat against India.
The veteran batsman added another feather to his hat when he took the field against India for the first Test match between the two nations.
The 35-year-old is playing the 100th Test match of his career and is now the first cricketer in the history of the sport to play 100 matches in all the 3 international formats.
It was back in January when Taylor played his 100th T20I match for the Kiwis and has already earned 231 ODI caps for his nation.
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The veteran batsman is also New Zealand's top run-scorer in ODIs and Tests, smashing 8570 and 7174 runs throughout his playing career so far.
Earlier in the day, India got off to yet another horrid start and managed to add just 43 runs before losing all 5 remaining wickets against a steaming Kiwi pace attack.
Overnight batsmen Ajinkya Rahane and Rishabh Pant were involved in a horrible mix-up in the 59th over in their attempts to take a quick single as India's wicketkeeper-batman was dismissed for 19 runs.
The collapse of wickets kept going after that as Southee rocked Ravichandran Ashwin's stumps on the very next delivery and dismissed him for a duck.
Rahane himself departed soon after, edging an easy catch to BJ Watling behind the stumps.
He was the top run-scorer for India, hitting 46 runs off 138 balls.
Debutant Kyle Jamieson and Southee picked up the remaining two wickets of Ishant Sharma (5) and Mohammed Shami (21) for the BlackCaps as the visitors were bundled all-out for 165 runs, the 2nd lowest 1st innings totals for India under Virat Kohli's captaincy.
In reply, Ishant Sharma provided the away side with two early wickets of Tom Latham (11) and Tom Blundell (30).
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