India vs New Zealand, Pune Test: New Zealand has taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series by registering a historic win against India by 113 runs in the Pune Test. With this, India’s winning streak at home for the last 18 Test series also came to an end. Earlier in 2012, England had defeated India in the Test series at home. Since then, Team India was continuously winning at home, but its winning streak of 12 years was stopped by New Zealand. For the first time in 69 years of history, New Zealand has defeated India in a Test series at home.
Let us tell you that the New Zealand team collapsed for 255 runs in the second innings of the Pune Test. On the basis of the first innings, it had a lead of 103 runs, on the basis of which the Kiwi team gave India a target of 359 runs. India’s second innings was in good shape at one point, with Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill taking over after the early dismissal of Rohit Sharma. Gill (23) was dismissed by Mitchell Santner on the score of 96, but Yashasvi continued scoring runs from the other end. However, Santner stopped Yashasvi from scoring a century. He was out after scoring 77 runs (nine fours, three sixes) on 65 balls, after which India’s wickets kept falling and even after two and a half days, the Indian team could not achieve this score and the match was lost.
Spin bowlers dominated the Pune pitch
In the second Test match between India and New Zealand, spin bowlers dominated on the black soil pitch of Pune. A total of 38 wickets were taken by the spinners, while Tim Southee took the only wicket as a fast bowler. Washington Sundar took 11 wickets, Mitchell Santner took 13 wickets, Ravichandran Ashwin took 5 wickets, Ravindra Jadeja took 3 wickets, Glenn Phillips took 3 wickets and Ajaz Patel took 2 wickets. One batsman was also run out.
Bad batting became the reason for defeat
Let us tell you that failure in batting was also one of the main reasons for India’s defeat. Rohit Sharma could not touch double figures in both the innings of the Pune Test, while Virat scored only 18 runs in total in both the innings. Apart from him, Rishabh Pant in the middle order scored 18 runs in the first innings and could not even open the account in the second innings. Bengaluru Test century-winner Sarfaraz Khan failed to show any magic this time. Overall, failure in batting has become a major reason for Team India’s series loss.
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