08/10Result
3rd Test, New Zealand tour of India at Indore, Oct 8-11 2016
India won by 321 runs
Player of the Match
Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravichandran AshwinIndia
08/10Result
3rd Test, New Zealand tour of India at Indore, Oct 8-11 2016
India won by 321 runs
Player of the Match
Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravichandran AshwinIndia

Vijay races off to the dressing room, India will bat again. They've got a lead of 258 and with two days left, they can bulk it up big time and give their four bowlers some respite. They've just pushed through 90 overs of Test cricket after all.

New Zealand's openers added 118. To fall for 299 after that would sting. They crumbled after lunch, losing five for 30 runs. Ashwin was the wrecker-in-chief, but it wasn't because he could just put the ball right there for it to do magical things. He found loopholes through Tom Latham and Ross Taylor's techniques. He deceived Kane Williamson with his line - pushing the ball wide to tempt him to cut, when it wasn't short enough for it. It was an exhibition of well thought out spin bowling - a 20th five-wicket haul for him in only 39 Tests.

James Neesham, coming back into the squad from injury, and Martin Guptill, having had several failures leading up to Indore hit half-centuries. Neither man is noted for playing spin well. But after they got through the initial jitters, they trusted on the strength of their timing and found runs relatively quickly. Just couldn't build that big innings New Zealand desperately needed considering they had begun batting after India had made 557. And then again, Neesham was lbw having been struck outside the line of off stump and Guptill was run-out while backing up at the non-strikers. Two awful ways to go

Nikhil Mane: "Most international wickets since Ashwin's debut - Ashwin 407, Anderson 406, Broad 388, Steyn 371"

90.2
W
Ashwin to Boult, OUT, Ashwin has six! shimmes down, looks to heave it towards midwicket, gets a top edge and Pujara takes the catch. A superb one at that, because the ball went so high. Backtracked from midwicket and pulled it off serenely

TA Boult c Pujara b Ashwin 0 (6m 5b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00

90.1
0
Ashwin to Boult, no run, tossed up on off stump, defended

END OF OVER:
90 | 4 Runs | NZ: 294/9

  • Matt Henry15 (13b)
  • Trent Boult0 (3b)
  • Ravindra Jadeja28-5-80-2
  • Ravichandran Ashwin27-5-81-5
89.6
4
Jadeja to Henry, FOUR, that was short and wide and Henry gives it a beating through point. This time the ball squeals in pain and hides behind the boundary
89.5
0
Jadeja to Henry, no run, moves back and blocks on leg stump
89.4
0
Jadeja to Henry, no run, misjudged the length completely and went for a wild drive through cover. The ball hit a good length, turned and laughed all the way past the flashing bat
89.3
0
Jadeja to Henry, no run, flighted onto leg stump, pushed back at the bowler
89.2
0
Jadeja to Henry, no run, stays low on off stump, and with Henry backing away to cut, he's lucky to have toe-ended it
89.1
0
Jadeja to Henry, no run, round-arms it into middle and leg, Henry keeps it out

END OF OVER:
89 | 1 Run 1 Wkt | NZ: 290/9

  • Trent Boult0 (3b)
  • Matt Henry11 (7b)
  • Ravichandran Ashwin27-5-81-5
  • Ravindra Jadeja27-5-76-2
88.6
0
Ashwin to Boult, no run, sneaks in a legbreak, which ended up being short and on top of it all doesn't even turn. Boult pats it to mid-off

Gambhir is still off the field, nursing the shoulder on which he fell while diving.

88.5
0
Ashwin to Boult, no run, opens the face and pushes the ball towards point
88.4
0
Ashwin to Boult, no run, comes forward and blocks
88.3
1
Ashwin to Henry, 1 run, dips on Henry, who plays the line and length of the ball - loopy and outside off - and ends up with an inside edge
88.2
W
Ashwin to Henry, OUT, seems to have dropped the catch coming back at him, but with the ball hitting the stumps could Patel be run out? Oh yes! Ashwin's pulled off a second of these. Some good work deceiving the batsman in flight, Henry drove at the ball, looking for the covers, ended up inside edging it. Ashwin was concentrating on the catch. Fumbles it, but is lucky enough that the ball went onto the stumps and Patel, backing up, couldn't put his bat down in time even though it was pushed behind the crease

JS Patel run out 18 (41m 26b 3x4 0x6) SR: 69.23

88.1
0
Ashwin to Henry, no run, good length ball outside off, pushed to mid-off

END OF OVER:
88 | 8 Runs | NZ: 289/8

  • Jeetan Patel18 (26b)
  • Matt Henry10 (4b)
  • Ravindra Jadeja27-5-76-2
  • Ravichandran Ashwin26-5-80-5
87.6
0
Jadeja to Patel, no run, good length ball outside off brings him forward to defend, but the turn takes it past the bat
87.5
4
Jadeja to Patel, FOUR, drums it down the ground. It was tossed up, and he saw it early, came down the track and gave it everything. Depsite that, Jadeja reached across to his right to try and catch the ball. Just flicked his fingers.
87.4
0
Jadeja to Patel, no run, good length on off stump, turns just enough too. Patel defends
87.3
4
Jadeja to Patel, FOUR, sweeps from the stumps, could have been in line for an lbw had he not connected with the bat

Match Coverage

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Clean sweep

4

No. of times India have whitewashed a Test series of 3 or more matches, including this. The last 3: vs Eng 1992-93, vs SL 1993-94 and vs Aus 2012-13.

Only the second

2

No. of India bowlers to take multiple ten-wicket hauls in any Test series, including Ashwin. First was Harbhajan vs Aus in 2000-01.

Ashwin again

4

No. of times Williamson has got out to Ashwin this series, in 4 innings. He faced 163 balls against other bowlers without getting dismissed; 91 balls v Ashwin.

Huge target

5

No. of higher targets set by India in Tests, than the 475 in this match. The highest they set was 617 also against NZ in Wellington in 2008-09.

Pujara in elite company

3

India No. 3 batsmen to score 4 50+ scores in a series of 3 or fewer Tests, including Pujara this series. Others: M Amarnath in Pak 1982-83 & Dravid in NZ 2008-09.

In-form Gambhir

5

Scores of 50 or more for Gambhir in first-class matches this season, in 7 innings. He had made 77, 90, 59, 94 and 36 in Duleep Trophy before this Test.

Race to twenty

2

No. of bowlers who reached 20 five-wicket hauls in fewer Tests than Ashwin's 39 - S Barnes in 25 Tests and C Grimmett in 37 Tests.

Prolific

5

No. of five-wicket hauls for Ashwin in Tests against NZ - most by any India bowler. Bedi, Gupte, Prasanna and Zaheer had taken four 5-fors vs NZ.

Neesham vs Ind

170

Runs scored by Neesham in his only previous Test against India - on his debut (33 & 137*, Wellington, 2013-14). He has got to a fifty in this Test.

Session of wickets

5

No. of wickets lost by New Zealand in the second session today. They had lost only one wicket in the first session.

First in a while

2013

Previous instance of an overseas opening pair adding a century stand in Tests in India - between Cowan and Warner in Mohali. This is the 1st such stand in 18 inns.

Opening high

55

The highest opening stand of the series before this - between Guptill and Latham in the 2nd inns of the Kolkata Test. The current stand is now the best.

Big total

2

No. of higher totals for India against NZ in Tests, than the 557/5 in this match. They had scored 583/7 in Ahmedabad in 1999-00 and 566/8 in Nagpur in 2010-11.