New Zealand’s stand-in skipper Tom Latham felt special to have played alongside his cricketing hero Ross Taylor in the last Test of his career. Latham, who scored the highest score for a New Zealander in First Class Cricket history at the Hagley Oval, said that he has learnt a lot from Taylor.
“The fact that he has scored runs in all parts of the world and to learn from him as to how he goes about his things and how he approaches different bowlers, even though we are left and right hand,” Latham said about his learnings from Taylor, who retired from Test cricket with New Zealand’s victory over Bangladesh in the second match of the two-Test series.
Talking about the inspiration that the 37-year-old Taylor has been for one whole generation of kids who wanted to become a Blackcaps batter, Latham said, “I guess, those small things that he does and the significant impact he has had on us as a group and also on New Zealand cricket.”
“I guess he has inspired generations and inspired me to play cricket. He is someone that I have always looked up to when I was playing cricket and wanted to play with. But to play with him in his final Test is pretty special,” he added.
Latham as a captain provide the ball to Taylor in the last over of the day’s play on the third day of the Test and the latter picked up a wicket on every last ball, becoming only the second Kiwi to pick up a wicket with his last ball in Test cricket.