India’s premier off spinner, Ravichandran Ashwin, managed to deceive New Zealand’s young batter, Rachin Ravindra, in the air during the second innings of the final Test match of the series at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
Ravindra swept Ashwin for a boundary in the previous delivery and tried to dance down the track to hit Ashwin for a six. However, the ball dipped on it, turned away and bounced to deceive him. Rishabh Pant collected the ball cleanly and removed the bails in a flash. Ravindra was frustrated after missing the ball and punched his bat.
Ravindra kickstarted the series with a century in the first innings of the Bengaluru Test match. He scored an unbeaten 39 runs in the second innings. Ravindra scored 65 runs in the first innings of the second Test match and then had knocks of 9 and 5 in the two innings of the final Test.
Team India had a lead of 28 runs at the end of their first innings
In response to New Zealand’s 235, India managed to score 263 in the second innings (Image Credits: X)
Meanwhile, Team India started the day on 86-4 after losing the initiate in the fag end of Day 1. Pant attacked the spinners right from the start and scored 60 runs off 59 balls. Meanwhile, Shubman Gill kept on batting and scored 90 runs. He definitely missed out on a century.
Washington Sundar remained not out with 38 runs. Ajaz Patel bowled 21.4 overs and picked up a five wicket haul as India scored 263 runs in their first innings and had a lead of 28 runs at the end of the innings.
Meanwhile, Young talked about the conditions on offer in Mumbai. “I do think so (on if the conditions yesterday were the toughest he’s been ever part of), I’ve played all around the world, Dubai is hot, Bangladesh is very muggy, but this has more heat and mugginess. It was a pleasing day, we chatted about it at the end of the day’s play yesterday, 30 runs less than the 1st innings at Pune, on a wicket which was spinning a bit more, I think we can take some early wickets, it will be an important passage of play this morning,” Young said, as quoted by Cricbuzz.
