🏏NZ Tour of India 2024: 2nd Test: 24 to 29 Oct 24, Day 3 - Pg 28 🏏 - Page 31

This is gonna be a very very very difficult chase.

Odds are in favor of NZ.

Hoping for a miracle!

Boys, there's no rush. It's a goddamn test match. No one gives a damn about strike rate. Take your time. Stay at the crease for as long as possible. Runs will eventually come. And the slower the wickets fall, the greater the confidence of the batsmen coming in later to bat. Just stay put at the crease.

Ab to bas Bhagwan bharose hai ye match to.

India chasing 300+ targets at home

Instances 26*

Won 1 (387 vs Eng Chennai 2008)

Lost 14

Tied 1

Draw 9

The highest fourth innings target chased down against New Zealand is 345 by West Indies in Auckland in 1969.

Rishabh and Sarfaraz should play carefully.

So it's taken just around an hour for India to take the last five wickets this morning. Surprisingly they didn't start with Washington Sundar, who has been the pick of their bowlers in the whole Test. But Jadeja stepped up and bowled pretty well, finding large amounts of turn. Not only did he pick up his first wicket of the Test, he picked up three in quick time. But the big challenge will start now with the bat as they face a massive target of 359. Stay tuned, we'll be back shortly for the reply.

Best match figures for India vs NZ

13/140 R Ashwin Indore 2016

12/85 R Ashwin Hyderabad 2012

12/152 S Venkatraghavan Delhi 1965

11/115 Washington Sundar Pune 2024 *

11/140 EAS Prasanna Auckland 1976

Originally posted by: Rosyme

Rishabh and Sarfaraz should play carefully.

Every time the team can't rely on them. Everyone needs to do their job..

Originally posted by: liberiangirl

This is gonna be a very very very difficult chase.

Odds are in favor of NZ.

Hoping for a miracle!

Boys, there's no rush. It's a goddamn test match. No one gives a damn about strike rate. Take your time. Stay at the crease for as long as possible. Runs will eventually come. And the slower the wickets fall, the greater the confidence of the batsmen coming in later to bat. Just stay put at the crease.

Ab to bas Bhagwan bharose hai ye match to.

Many many over left but we need partnership in between each wicket

46 all out & 156 all out in india should not happen again please

Be positive, ya home kari ne Aage badho

Kiwi ko haravo, black topi walon ko zukavo.

Jaiswal not out...

Thank God

Jaiswal and Rohit are at the crease. Jaiswal is on strike. Southee will open the attack

Welcome back. The New Zealand team are in a huddle. Will they open with spin? Out come the two India openers Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal as well. Around 50 minutes left before lunch. Tim Southee has the new ball with Jaiswal on strike. Two slips and a gully in place

10.28am India have done the first bit of the job this morning which is to wrap up the last five New Zealand wickets. Now for the much tougher job of chasing down 359. Only once have India chased down a steeper target to win a Test at home. Can they do it again? New Zealand are certainly not going to make it easy for them

Roshan: "Best bet is Sarfaraz khan playing number 3 and Gill playing number 5/6. To win this they need a good batsman when ball is old."