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It’s always an entertaining watch when you have Rishabh Pant behind the stumps in any match. Thursday’s match against New Zealand also generated a light-hearted banter between Washington Sundar and Pant when the bowler was smashed for a boundary by New Zealand’s Ajaz Patel after the wicketkeeper had asked the spinner to bowl a little fuller.
“Washi aage daal sakte hai, you can bowl little fuller, thoda bahar daal sakta hai,” Pant was heard saying in Hindi on the stump mic to Washington when Ajaz was batting. The bowler obliged and next thing you know, the Kiwi batter had smacked the ball to the fence.
“Yaar mereko kya pata isse Hindi aati hai (How would I know that he knows Hindi,” Pant said after that.
In the match, Sundar justified his selection with a career-best 7/59 to help India bowl out New Zealand for 259, but the hosts lost skipper Rohit Sharma early in their first innings when stumps were drawn on day of the second Test.
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India crawled to 16 for one in 11 overs with Yashasvi Jaiswal (6 not out) and Shubman Gill (10 not out) at the crease, trailing by another 243 runs in the first innings.
Tim Southee cleaned up Rohit for a nine-ball duck, forcing the hosts to be extra cautious with the debacle of first innings in the Bengaluru Test still fresh in the mind.
Rohit, who was cleaned up for the third time in the series and for the second time by Southee, was squared up as he looked to defend in the line of the delivery but the ball moved away to beat his outside edge and crash into the off-stump.
Southee thus became the first among fast bowlers to take a wicket in this Test after a dominating show by the Indian spin duo of Sundar and R Ashwin (3/64), who did not allow New Zealand to break free.
The 25-year-old Sundar, playing his first Test for India since March, 2021, ran through New Zealand after Ashwin claimed the first three wickets in the innings to move past his Australian peer Nathan Lyon in the list of highest wicket-takers in Tests.
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