2nd Test: India vs New Zealand

ICC World Test Championship at Wellington : Feb 21-25 2020

India : 165 & 144/4 * (65 ov)

New Zealand : 348

Stumps, Day 3 : India trail by 39 runs !!

11.28am : So the morning is gorgeous with not a cloud in sight. Out come Rahane and Vihari to continue their fight

after close to 20 overs of batting together. Trent Boult to start the proceedings.

Not a lot of wind. A wide slip and a gully. A leg gully. Over the wicket

148 - 5

Rishabh Pant is the new batsman.

67.2
Boult to Rahane, OUT ! This is a really good ball. Angled in, on a length, just outside off, you have got to play at it.

AM Rahane c †Watling b Boult 29 (75b 5x4 0x6) SR: 38.66

148 - 6

68.3
Southee to Vihari, sensational bowling ! Outswinger, outswinger, and then the scrambled-seam Inswinger ~

GH Vihari b Southee 15 (79b 2x4 0x6) SR: 18.98

162 - 7

still trail by 21 runs

72.3
Southee to Ashwin, OUT, done in by a full and straight delivery. Playing for the outswing, but it nips back in and hits him in front.

R Ashwin lbw b Southee 4

2 - 7

78.2
Jamieson to Sharma, FOUR, there's the 2 run lead for India as Ishant makes room and shellacks a horizontal-bat shot !

191 all out

NZ need 9 runs to Win !

80.6
Southee to Bumrah,one handed catch at second slip! And Southee has a 5Fer ~ New Zealand need nine to win !!!

JJ Bumrah c sub (DJ Mitchell) b Southee DUCK

80.3
Southee to Pant, OUT, Boult 4, Southee 4 with the former taking a catch at deep backward square

RR Pant c Boult b Southee 25

79.2
de Grandhomme to Sharma, OUT, ball stays low and Ishant has been caught napping.
I Sharma lbw b de Grandhomme 12

0.6 Sharma to Blundell, 1 run, Scores are TIED ...
0.4 Sharma to Latham, 3 runs, full, on middle, and flicked off his pads to the gap near backward square.
0.2 Sharma to Latham, FOUR runs, full outside off, and driven through the covers! NZ need five more to win

1.06pm : And what a way to claim your 100th Test win ?!

New Zealand collect 60 World Test Championship points

and now have an unassailable 1-0 lead in the two-match Test series

1.4 Bumrah to Blundell, 1 run, New Zealand win by ten wickets!

"So if NZ gets these runs before lunch, it's basically a 3 day test...

And Kohli doesn't like 4 day tests proposed by ICC"

-- Hmm yeah, with one session washed out on day one