Monday , December 23 2024

First day's play over, Sundar-Ashwin's brilliant performance

Rohit Sharma went duck hunting

At one time New Zealand's score was 197 runs for 3 wickets, but wickets kept falling continuously. 5 out of the last 6 batsmen of the visiting team could not even touch double figures. The last 6 wickets of New Zealand's innings fell for 62 runs. When the Indian innings started, captain Rohit Sharma could not even open his account, who was clean bowled by Tim Southee.

Washington and Ashwin wreaked havoc

New Zealand's first wicket was taken by Ravichandran Ashwin, but after this Washington Sundar took charge and broke the back of the Kiwi team's batting. Sundar took the first wicket of Rachin Ravindra, who scored 65 runs and after this the Kiwi batsmen were seen struggling against Sundar. Bowling in 23.1 overs, he gave 59 runs and took a total of 7 wickets. While Ashwin bowled 24 overs and took 3 wickets. In terms of taking the most wickets in the history of Test cricket, Ashwin has now overtaken Australia's Nathan Lyon, who currently has 530 wickets in his name.