🏏NZ Tour of India 2024: 3rd Test: Nov 1- 5: Day 2: Pg 23🏏 - Page 41

NZ lead by 103 runs..

Sodhi at No.8. Long tail for NZ in the absence of Santner/Bracewell. This could end quickly for them in this session. India huddle up at the drinks break, with Rohit having a discussion with his boys.

Devender Kumar: "Time for indian spinners to tighten the grip and wipe off the tail in today's play, reduce the target below 150A quick start tomorrow from rohit , jaiswal and pant .. india looks to clinch this match and salvage some lost pride"

End of over 33

12 runs • 1 wicket

NZ: 131/6

CRR: 3.96

Ish Sodhi

0 (1b)

Will Young

41 (79b 1x4 1x6)

Ravichandran Ashwin

12-0-44-2

Ravindra Jadeja

7-0-36-2

End of over 34

Maiden

NZ: 131/6

CRR: 3.85

Will Young

41 (85b 1x4 1x6)

Ish Sodhi

0 (1b)

Ravindra Jadeja

8-1-36-2

Ravichandran Ashwin

12-0-44-2

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150/8

How many more our bowling will Grind?

Already 14 wkts on day 2

Just one more wicket needed

29 wickets in the first two days's play combined - most in the first two days at this venue bettering 25 in the Test between India & South Africa in 2000.

NZ lower order collapses this series

Pune, 1st innings: 62/7 (197/3 - 259)

Pune, 2nd innings: 24/5 (231/5 - 255)

Mumbai, 1st innings: 76/7 (159/3 - 235)

Mumbai, 2nd innings: 77/6 (94/3 - 171/9)*

Ashwin: (On the catch to dismiss Mitchell) I was just telling myself that it's going to anyway leave me, I wanted to get as close to the ball as possible and and I've got great hands, so I trusted my hands to go through with it. (On employing the carrom ball) The game itself is divided into two halves. The one from the pavilion end and the other side, the wicket is responding very differently. It's slightly flatter from the one where we are bowling from the dressing room side, the the bounce is much lesser, so I thought I will try and use it the other way. The batters are also knowing that it's easier to take me on from this side. So I wanted to give something different. (Target) Hopefully not many, we should wrap it up with one or two runs here and there. Any runs saved in this innings is going to be much more critical for us when we chase it down. It's not going to be easy, we'll have to bat really well. I expected a lot more bounce and speed from this Mumbai pitch, it has been quite slow which is a surprise for me. It's not a typical Bombay pitch, but much slower than usual.