IND vs NZ, Washington Sundar Match Highlights: The second match of the three-match Test series between the Indian team and New Zealand will be played in Pune starting Thursday (October 24). After losing the first match of the series, Indian coach Gautam Gambhir made a strange move which proved effective in the second match.
The big move was to include star Washington Sundar in the team. As the second Test began in Pune, captain Rohit Sharma replaced Sundar in the 11th game in place of Kuldeep Yadav. What happened next, as soon as he got the chance, Sundar made New Zealand the star of the day by taking wickets.
The New Zealand team took 7 wickets in 62 runs.
In the match, the New Zealand team won the toss and decided to bat first. The team also got off to a good start and scored 197 runs after losing 3 wickets in 59 overs. After this, Sundar’s storm came and started hunting down the New Zealand batsmen one by one.
The New Zealand team got so caught in Sundar’s spin trap that they collapsed after reaching 259 runs. Thus, in 62 runs, Sundar took the last 7 wickets and showed the stars of the day to the New Zealand team. In this way, it must be said that Gambhir and Rohit’s decision to include Sundar has been a success.
The first day of the match was in Sundar’s name.
Let us tell you that on the first day of the Pune test match, the New Zealand team was restricted to 259 runs in the first innings. After this, the Indian team came into bat. By the end of the day’s play, they had scored 16 runs after losing 1 wicket. Captain Rohit Sharma couldn’t even open the account. While Yashasvi Jaiswal remained unbeaten after scoring 6 runs and Shubhman Gill remained unbeaten after scoring 10 runs. These two will start the game the next day.
The spinners dominated the Indian bowlers on the first day. All 10 wickets were taken by spinners Washington Sundar and Ravichandran Ashwin. Off-spinner Sundar took maximum 7 wickets for 59 runs. While Ashwin took 3 wickets for 64 runs.
Sundar removed 5 batsmen in this innings.
Washington Sundar has taken 5 wickets in an innings for the first time in his Test career. In this first innings, Sundar bowled 5 batsmen cleanly. This is also a record while 1 batsman was out LBW and 1 was caught. With this, Sundar has become the first Indian bowler to take 7 wickets on Pune ground.
Playing-11 of India-New Zealand in Pune Test:
New Zealand team: Tom Latham (captain), Devon Conway, Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Blundell (goalkeeper), Glenn Phillips, Tim Southee, Mitchell Santner, Ajaz Patel and William O’Rourke.
Indian team: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (goalkeeper), Sarfaraz Khan, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Akash Deep and Jasprit Bumrah.
