Brief score: NZ 259 & lead IND 156 (Jadeja 38, Jaiswal 30; Santner 7/53) by XXX runs
Resuming from an overnight score of 16/1, incumbent Indian batters Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill seemed to have shed the inhibition they showed late on Day 1 and patiently added 34 to their partnership to take the team score past 50. However, things quickly unravelled for the hosts thereafter, beginning with Gill misreading a Mitchell Santner delivery and being trapped plumb in front of the stumps. Virat Kohli missed the line of a low fulltoss Santner a couple overs later to end a brief stay of nine deliveries before Glenn ‘golden arm’ Philllips just took four balls to strike as Jaiswal edged one to slip and left India reeling at 70/4. By the time Lunch arrived, poor shot selection meant Sarfaraz Khan and Ravichandran Ashwin had also fallen victim to Santner while an ordinary shot from Rishabh Pant saw Phillips sound him the death knell, the scorecard reading 107/7 at the break.
Upon resumption, Ravindra Jadeja provided some hope to the Men in Blue with a counterattacking 38 featuring three boundaries and two maximums, aided by a quick 18-run unbeaten cameo from Washington Sundar at the other end, but Santner inevitably returned to the mix by scalping three in nine deliveries and folding out India for 156, over a hundred runs short of their rivals’ first innings total.
In response, Tom Latham and Devon Conway showcased great confidence to rack up 19 in the first three overs, including three boundaries off Ashwin. However, the offie pair of him and Washington Sundar soon regained control and it culminated in Conway missing an attempted sweep to succumb LBW to Ashwin. Will Young was the next to fall at the stroke of Tea while Rachin Ravindra succumbed soon after resumptiion as the Kiwis were reduced to 89/3. Latham brought up his individual half-century in Daryl Mitchell’s company who holed out after a breezy 18 before combining with namesake Tom Blundell for 60 crucial runs late in the day. Ultimately, Latham missed a sweep and was given otu LBW 19 short of a century as the Kiwis closed out the day on 198/5.
Kohli did not like that!!
Virat Kohli unleashes his anger on Rohit Sharma after he dropped a easy catch.
Leader Kohli needs to teach Rohit Sharma a lesson. pic.twitter.com/3UiTuz0Vw0— ` (@Was_divote) October 25, 2024
Agressive Kohli is back!!
Virat Kohli bashes captain Rohit Sharma left right and centre for dropping a simple catch at first slip, as vada paw looks on shamelessly!#INDvNZ #indvsnzlpic.twitter.com/o7B3QCVYyu
— Vinay Kumar Dokania (@VinayDokania) October 25, 2024
It’s a hoax
“There is a perception in modern-day cricket that Indians are great batters of spin. They are not. Those days are gone. Now, they are the same as everyone else” – Simon Doull
I have been saying this for years now #INDvNZ— Shubh Aggarwal (@shubh_chintak) October 25, 2024
Good question
Any possibility of These two coming out of the Retirement …..
I challenge & bet it confidently ….a two hundred Partnership can be fun for these two at Pune pitch even today …#indvsnzl #INDvNZ pic.twitter.com/j0UFvTnz84— 𝕶𝖆𝖗𝖓
(@pickupshot) October 25, 2024
NZ finish day 2, 301 ahead with 5 wickets in hand. All credit to them.
Calling it now – NZ will win this Test & win their FIRST Test Series in India.
Good feather to add in Coach Gambhir’s coaching record.@ESPNcricinfo @BCCI #INDvNZ
— Anil Singh (@Singh02017) October 25, 2024
Ohhh!!
Yup
Ashwin’s inability to strike costing India here on this turner #INDvNZ
— Manish Kori (@Sportshub500) October 25, 2024
Pakistan winning a home series and India losing home series on same week #INDvNZ #PAKvENG pic.twitter.com/FYs3Bhl4iz
— UndergraD
(@ugcric) October 25, 2024
Gohit?
Sunil Gavaskar (2021-22):
India will beat South Africa 3-0 (Result- SA beat India 2-1)
Sunil Gavaskar (2024): It’s a super team, it’s ‘Gohit’.
(Lost Bengaluru, on the verge of losing Pune test and series).
Sport humbles you.#INDvNZ— Sumit
(@SumitSun14) October 25, 2024
Glorious
From coming in to bat at 46-3 to taking his team into the lead
Pakistan’s Test vice-captain @saudshak amasses a glorious
#PAKvENG | #TestAtHome #INDvNZ #BCCI #indvsnz #RohitSharma𓃵 #ViratKohli𓃵 #RCB #IndianCricketTeam #GOAT #IPLAuction2025 #IPL pic.twitter.com/eQW4gn6ng4
— Junaid Zaheer (@junaidzaheer011) October 25, 2024
Will India lose tomorrow or day after tomorrow?
I want New Zealand to thrash them tomorrow so that they can enjoy Pune for 2 days!! #INDvNZ pic.twitter.com/DEMvJOKX7R— Mr. Haiwan (@HaiwanCricket) October 25, 2024
