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– 2024-04-12 11:22:35″>Mitchell Santner (6 wickets for 106 runs), New Zealand defeated India by 113 runs on the third day of the second Test on Saturday and took an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-match series. This is his first series win on Indian soil. India had got the target of 359 runs but the Indian team was reduced to 245 runs in 60.2 overs. The Indian team has lost a Test series at home for the first time since 2011-12. After the shameful defeat, Indian captain Rohit Sharma said – It is disappointing. It was not what we thought. Gotta give credit to New Zealand. They played better than us. We failed to take advantage of certain opportunities. We failed to respond to those challenges. Today we are sitting here. I don’t think we batted well enough to put runs on the board.
Regarding bowling, he said- You have to take 20 wickets to win, yes, but the batsmen have to score runs on the board. Restricting them to around 250 was a great comeback, but we knew it was going to be challenging. When they started their score was 200/3 and for us to come back and bowl them out for 259 was a great effort.
Regarding the pitch, he said- It was not a pitch where much was happening. We just didn’t bat well. Had we been a little closer in the first innings, things might have been a little different. We want to do well at Wankhede and try to win that Test. This is a collective failure. I am not someone who blames only the batsmen or the bowlers. We will come to Wankhede with better intentions, better ideas and better methods.
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It is noteworthy that when India lost the Test series at home last time, Gambhir was a part of that team and today Gambhir is the head coach of the team. Ashwin and Kohli were also part of the Indian team in that series defeat against England. Santner took a total of 13 wickets in the second test. He broke the back of Indian batting by taking seven wickets for 53 runs in the first innings and six wickets for 104 runs in the second innings.