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This player's team returned to India after 1329 days after immediately losing seven wickets.

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IND vs NZ Test Series: The second match of the three-match Test series was played between India and New Zealand today (24 October). India's star all-rounder Washington Sundar played an important role in this match. Captain Rohit Sharma and head coach Gautam Gambhir took a big gamble and included Sundar in the Test team after 1329 days. This decision of Rohit and Gambhir was criticized by many cricket legends. However, Washington Sundar made a comeback and gave a stormy performance. As soon as he joined the Indian team, he proved the decision of Rohit and Gambhir right by taking seven wickets for New Zealand.

Washington Sundar's stormy performance

IND vs NZ Test Series: The second match of the three-match Test series was played between India and New Zealand today (24 October). India's star all-rounder Washington Sundar played an important role in this match. Captain Rohit Sharma and head coach Gautam Gambhir took a big gamble and included Sundar in the Test team after 1329 days. This decision of Rohit and Gambhir was criticized by many cricket legends. However, Washington Sundar made a stormy comeback. As soon as he joined the Indian team, he proved the decision of Rohit and Gambhir right by taking seven wickets for New Zealand.

Washington Sundar's stormy performance

New Zealand's star players hunted

In this match, Washington Sundar first took the wicket of New Zealand's star young player Rachin Ravindra. After this he hunted star players like Tom Blundell, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Tim Southee, Ajaz Patel and Mitchell Santner. The special thing is that Sundar clean bowled five out of his seven wickets.

Questions were raised when he was included in the playing 11.

Before the start of this match, many questions were being raised regarding Washington Sundar's place in the playing 11. Actually, in this match Washington Sundar replaced Kuldeep Yadav. In such a situation, former Indian veteran player Sunil Gavaskar also called this decision wrong. But Washington Sundar has surprised everyone with his performance. Due to this, New Zealand was all out for 259 runs in the first innings. Apart from Sundar, Ashwin also took three wickets in this match.