India vs New Zealand LIVE Score, 3rd Test Day 2: Akash Deep removes Latham early; NZ 13/1

Ashwin gets his first over of the innings. Young drives a fuller one for a couple of runs. 

Spin from both ends? Not yet as Rohit persists with Akash Deep. Quiet over from the pacer. Just two runs. 

Washington continues. Around the wicket to Conway. Gets him to drive away from his body. Just wide off Sarfaraz at silly point. Just two runs from the over. 

Akash Deep continues. Drifts into Conway’s pads and easily clicked away for a four. Four dots to close out the over. 

Spin straight away as Rohit tosses the ball to Washington Sundar. Huge spin straight away. Couple of singles as Washington searches for a consistent line. 

Akash Deep gets things underway. Couple of early singles. Angles one into Latham’s pads. Umpire gives it out. New Zealand reviews it straight. HUUGE inside edge. 

Akash sticks to his line. This time it jags back in much more. Through bat and pad. BOWLED!!

NZ 2/1

Akash Deep is run out without facing a delivery. Sundar hits to third man and wants two. He shouts no from the non-stiker’s end but by the time Akash responds, turns and tries to get back, he is caught short of his crease.

Akash Deep run out (Ravindra) 0 (0)

Sodhi to Washington. The field is packed at the boundary line to prevent the big shot. The fourth delivery is a fraction wide, Washington cuts and threads it between third man and deep point. SIX! Plays it along with the spin and packs it over mid wicket. A single to fine leg on the final delivery.

NZ goes for a review against Washington. Ajaz’s delivery turns into the batter and beats his inside edge onto the bat. The ball tracker, though, shows it spun too much and went down leg. Ajaz has a fifer. Ashwin is caught at slip.

Ravichandran Ashwin c Mitchell b Ajaz 6 (13)

Phillips bowls too full to Washington who smokes it down the ground with a vertical blade. A smart single on the next delivery to long on.

Ajaz to continue. Washington gets a single through square leg. India levels NZ as an overthrow from Rachin Ravindra goes past the keeper, Ashwin off the mark as well. FOUR! Ashwin picks this slot ball over mid wicket, one bounce and over the ropes it goes.

Washington on strike against Phillips, FOUR! Drills it through covers. India just four runs away now. Cuts the final delivery and gets one more run.

Another quiet over from Phillips. Just three runs. Ajaz hangs it outside the off stump and Gill is forced to play at it. Edged and Mitchell gets another catch at first slip. 

Shubman Gill c Mitchell b Patel 90 (146b 7x4 1x6)

IND 227/8 in 54 overs

Ajaz to Washington. Defended on the front foot. Sweeps the next one for a single. Gill takes a single off the last ball. 

Washington Sundar on strike. Phillips turns a couple away from his outside blade. Now angles one in. Inside edge on to the pads. 

First ball for Washington Sundar and he casually reverse sweeps it for a four. Now the conventional sweep. Just a single though. Leg sideish from Ajaz and clipped away for an easy four by Shubman Gill. 

Gill decides to up the ante. Lofts Phillips for a four to the long on fence. Full again from Phillips and pumped through covers for another four. 

Short and wide from Ajaz. Sliced away for a single by Gill. Full and outside the off stump. Sarfaraz goes for an expansive sweep shot. Misses it completely. 

Ajaz loops it in. Bounces and kisses Sarfaraz’s gloves and Blundell completes a good catch. 

Sarfaraz Khan c †Blundell b Patel 0 (4b 0x4 0x6)

Pant’s dismissal has taken away the attacking edge from the Indian innings. Full and drifting away from Phillips. Jadeja pokes at it and Mitchell gobbles it up at first slip. 

Ravindra Jadeja c Mitchell b Phillips 14 (25b 0x4 0x6)

IND 203/6

Jadeja taps one off Ajaz Patel behind point for a single. Very, very straight from Ajax. Forces Gill to defend everything. Intense battle. 

Phillips from the other end. Jadeja tucks one to square leg to add a single. Full from Phillips. Gill knocks it to mid wicket. Another single. 

Ajaz Patel gets the second session underway. Spins one away from Gill’s outside edge. Better line from Ajaz to start with. Maiden over. 

IND 195/5 in 44 overs

“I was scared of this. I didn’t want to lose a single series in India until I played, but it has happened. Whatever I think about, it happens suddenly,” Jadeja said after the opening day’s play here on Friday.

“We have raised our expectations so high that we have not lost a single series for 12 years, and in 12 years, I have been involved in only five losses at home. As a team, it is a lesson. We need to pick up positives from this.”

The spider cam has a malfunction and is stuck at the mid wicket position. The umpires, hence, decide not to wait for the snag to be fixed and take an early Lunch. 109 runs from the session at the cost of just one wicket. India’s session through and through.

Phillips to bowl, Jadeja on strike. On the pads, and Jadeja guides it to long on for a run. Spins a little too much and into the pads of Gill, parries it away to fine leg and pockets another run.

A change in the attack. Ajaz Patel to bowl now. He angles into the pads of Jadeja who works it away to fine leg for two runs. A single again to fine leg as Ajaz strays towards leg with his line.

An edge for Jadeja against Phillips but its too wide off the slip fielder, two runs. Jadeja cuts the fifth to sweeper cover for another run.

Sodhi to continue. Gill drives past covers for one run. Jadeja clips from outside off stump, manages to get it wide of mid wicket to add another run to his tally. Gill gets to the pitch of the ball and pushes it to deep covers. Jadeja taps the final delivery to long on, making it four runs from the over.

Just a single from Phillips’ over as Gill nudges a delivery angling into his pads through fine leg

Gill drives Sodhi to covers for one run. FOUR! Pant with a full-faced drive between covers and mid off. OUT! Pant is lbw! Sodhi’s delivery skids on and traps him in front. He takes a review but the ball tracker shows it’s just about clipping the leg stump. 

Rishabh Pant lbw b Sodhi 60 (59)

Ravindra Jadeja comes in ahead of Sarfaraz Khan. He punches it to deep mid wicket to pick a single and get off the mark. Gill jabs through the on side for a single. He will retain strike.

Three more singles from this Phillips over. It is 42 deliveries since the last boundary.

Sodhi again. Gill cuts to deep point for one run. Pant unfurls another reverse sweep, gets only a single. One run to fine leg on the final delivery.

Philllips to Pant. He steps out and slogs and does not miss the mid wicket fielder by too much as the bat turns in his hands. Two runs from that one. DROPPED! Pant hits a full toss right down the throat of long off where Matt Henry puts it down. Gill picks an easy single to long on.

Sodhi to Gill, swipes the first delivery to long on for one run. Pant nudges through mid wicket for a single.

Glen Phillips continues. Gill takes a single off the first ball. Pant for once is unable to break free as Phillips keeps floating the ball into dangerous areas. Just one run from the over. Drinks taken. 

Half tracker from Ish Sodhi. But it keeps incredibly low. Luckily for Gill, it wasn’t directed at the stumps. Sodhi slides one into Pant’s pads. Nothing from the umpire though. 

Phillips gets another crack. Couple of singles to start the over. Pant leans on his defence, for a change, to see through the rest of the over. 

Ish Sodhi introduced. Full from him to start with. Gill pushes it easily through covers for a single and gets to his fifty. 

Pant follows suit soon enough. Single to leg side to bring up his fifty. 

IND 159/4 in 30 overs

Full toss from Phillips and whipped away for a four by Pant to deep mid wicket. Short now from Phillips. Swatted away by Pant for another four. 150 up for India. 

Ajaz Patel against Gill. Three dot balls first up. Gill nudges one to the off side and gets off the strike with a single. Width for Pant and he reverse sweeps it away for a four. Pant dazzles down the track now and launches a straight six. 

DROPPED!! Gill looks to go big first ball against Glen Phillips. High. But Chapman can’t hold onto it. Phillips can’t believe it. Couple of singles come in for India from the rest of the over. 

Pant goes long vs Ajaz Patel. Steps out and blasts it over long on for the first six of the day. Defends the next three with an exaggerated front foot prod. 

Henry continues. Gill angles one wide of third man to get a couple of runs. A single brings Pant on strike. Keeper still up for the left hander. Pant still manages to get a single with an off drive. Henry attacks Gill with a short ball. Gill keeps it down, somehow. 

Now Pant brings out the lap shot. FOUR!! Never a dull moment with him. Just two singles from the rest of the over. 

Henry operating with the keeper up as New Zealand looks to prevent Pant from stepping out. Full and touched to long on and a quick single grabbed. Henry angles one into Gill’s pads. Clipped away for a double. 

Ajaz Patel around the wicket to Gill, who counters the spinner with his front foot defence. Flight from Ajaz now and Gill jumps out to carve it inside out for a four. 100 up for India. 

Matt Henry from the other end. Gill defends the first one off the back foot. Punches one through off side for a single. Pant now displays his defensive wares. 

Rishabh Pant gets the day underway with a four. Full from Ajaz Patel and slammed away for a four down the ground. Make that two. Not too full from Ajaz and Pant dances down the ground to hit a straight four again. 

Ajaz hangs it outside off and Pant prods at it. EDGE!! Runs past first slip for another four. 

IND 98/4 in 20 overs

He wil continue the innings on 31 off 38 deliveries. He was troubled a fair bit by the spinners but found his mojo eventually. He picked two boundaries and a six against Glenn Phillips to end the day in command.

Most wickets for India in Tests

Anil Kumble - 619

R. Ashwin - 533*

Kapil Dev - 434

Harbhajan Singh - 417

Ravindra Jadeja - 314*

Ishant Sharma - 311

Zaheer Khan - 311

The left-arm orthodox scalped five wickets and led India’s bowling effort on the opening day of the final Test match.

IND vs NZ, 3rd Test: I was scared of this, says Jadeja on home series defeat

Ravindra Jadeja finds himself in an unchartered territory. Not when it comes to flummoxing the opposition batters with his accurate spin bowling but because of a series lost at home.

I was scared of this. I didn’t want to lose a single series in India until I played, but it has happened. Whatever I think about, it happens suddenly

The second day of action at the Wankhede Stadium and India has a task at hand. From a commanding 78 for one, it fell to 86 for four at Stumps. Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant will have the responsibility to steer India out of this phase and get the side as close as possible to New Zealand’s 235.