Team India trapped in its own web, this player did such a miracle for the first time

India vs New Zealand Pune Pitch: Under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the Indian cricket team is once again stuck in the second test against New Zealand. On the pitch where New Zealand had scored more than 250 runs, Team India was restricted to only around 150 runs. Now New Zealand has a good lead and if they bat well in the second innings too, then the Indian team is in danger of defeat. The Indian team is already on the backfoot after losing the first match of the series, now if the second match also gets in danger then the tension will increase even more. Not only this, it seems that the Indian team has got trapped in its own web.

the first match has been lost

The first match of India vs New Zealand series was played in Bengaluru. There was a lot of bounce on that pitch on the first day. Due to this the Indian batsmen got badly trapped. India was reduced to only 46 runs in the first innings. However, India batted well in the second innings. Sarfaraz Khan scored 150 and Rishabh Pant scored 99 runs, but these were not enough to win. Team India had gone so far behind in the first innings itself that it became difficult to make a comeback from there. That's why that match was lost.

New Zealand bowled well on spin friendly pitch

Meanwhile, if we talk about this match, then taking lessons from the first match, a spin friendly pitch was made in Pune, so that the Indian bowlers could do their job. The spin bowlers, especially Washington Sundar and Ravichandran Ashwin, also did their job. But even after this the New Zealand team managed to score a big score. It was expected that the Indian batting would also do something similar, but it could not happen. Rohit Sharma was out on a duck and Virat Kohli could score only one run. That is, if seen overall, the trap that India had laid to trap New Zealand, it itself got trapped in it and now it is the task of saving the match.

Mitchell Santner took five wickets for the first time in Test

Meanwhile, in the same match, two bowlers took five wickets in an innings. First this work was done by Washington Sundar of India and after this Mitchell Santner of New Zealand also did something similar. The special thing is that both these bowlers have done this feat for the first time. Mitchell Santner has done this for the second time in first-class cricket. Santner took more than 5 wickets in a first-class match in the year 2022. He has done this for the first time in international cricket. That is, overall it is clear that whichever team plays spin better here, will be successful in registering victory. The Indian team is still behind in the match, but it has time to make a comeback, it remains to be seen how the team performs in the upcoming matches.

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