Santner heroics seal New Zealand’s first Test series win in India
Pune, India, AFP: New Zealand made history with their first Test series triumph in India as spinner Mitchell Santner’s heroic performance delivered a 113-run win in the second match on Saturday. New Zealand bowled out India for 245 in their chase of 359 on day three in Pune to take an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.
It marks India’s first Test series defeat at home since December 2012, when Alastair Cook’s England beat them 2-1. Santner, who’s 7-53 in India’s first innings of 156 set up the famous win, rattled the Indian chase with six wickets on a turning pitch and trumped the hosts at their own spin game. The left-hander bowled unchanged from one end, returning figures of 6-104 in 29 overs.
Mitchell Santner (C) celebrates with teammates
Ajaz Patel took the final two wickets and ended Ravindra Jadeja’s resistance on 42 when the batsmen holed out in the deep and
New Zealand celebrated to pin drop silence from the stands. Before Saturday, a visiting New Zealand team had never won a Test series in India dating back to their first trip in 1955.
India bowled out New Zealand for 255 inside the first hour of play and opener Yashasvi Jaiswal in his 65-ball 77 came out attacking to raise hopes of a miracle. India lost skipper Rohit Sharma for eight but raced to 81-1 at lunch in 12 overs.
Santner took down Shubman Gill for 23 soon after the break to end a 62-run second-wicket stand with the left-handed Jaiswal, who powered on after reaching his fifty. The in-form spinner finally had Jaiswal caught at slip, run out Rishabh Pant for a duck and trapped Virat Kohli lbw, dousing India’s chances. Glenn Phillips chipped in with the wicket of Washington Sundar for 21.
India spinners Sundar and Jadeja shared seven wickets between them in the second New Zealand innings, with Jadeja claiming three of the five to fall on Saturday morning. Sundar, a lanky off-spinner, returned to the Indian Test team after more than three years and took 7-59.
New Zealand made 259 in their first innings riding on knocks from Devon Conway (76) and Rachin Ravindra (65) before Santner took charge.
New Zealand have now won four Tests in India after their opening triumph was the first on Indian soil since 1988.
The series victory comes after New Zealand’s recent 2-0 loss in Sri Lanka on a sub-continent tour, which began with a washed out Test against Afghanistan near New Delhi. Tim Southee stepped down after the Sri Lanka defeat and Tom Latham took over as Test captain.
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| New Zealand 1st innings Tom Latham lbw b Ashwin 15 Devon Conway c Pant b Ashwin 76 Will Young c Pant b Ashwin 18 Rachin Ravindra b Sundar 65 Daryl Mitchell lbw b Sundar 18 Tom Blundell b Sundar 03 Glenn Phillips c Ashwin b Sundar 09 Mitchell Santner b Sundar 33 Tim Southee b Sundar 05 Ajaz Patel b Sundar 04 William O’Rourke not out 00 Extras (b8, lb2, nb3) 13 Total (all out; 79.1 overs) 259 Fall of wickets: 1-32 (Latham, 7.5ov), 2-76 (Young, 23.6ov), 3-138 (Conway, 43.2ov), 4-197 (Ravindra, 59.1ov), 5-201 (Blundell, 61.6ov), 6-204 (Mitchell, 63.3ov), 7-236 (Phillips, 73.4ov), 8-242 (Southee, 75.1ov), 9-252 (Patel, 77.6ov), 10-259 (Santner, 79.1ov) Bowling: Jasprit Bumrah 8-2-32-0, Akash Deep 6-0-41-0, Ravichandran Ashwin 24-2-64-3, Washington Sundar 23.1-4-59-7, Ravindra Jadeja 18-0-53-0 India 1st innings Yashasvi Jaiswal c Mitchell b Phillips 30 Rohit Sharma b Southee 00 Shubman Gill lbw b Santner 30 Virat Kohli b Santner 01 Rishabh Pant b Phillips 18 Sarfaraz Khan c O’Rourke b Santner 11 Ravindra Jadeja lbw b Santner 38 Ravichandran Ashwin lbw b Santner 04 Wasington Sundar not out 18 Akash Deep b Santner 06 Jasprit Bumrah lbw b Santner 00 Extras 00 Total (all out; 45.3 overs) 156 Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Sharma, 2.6ov), 2-50 (Gill, 21.3ov), 3-56 (Kohli, 23.4ov), 4-70 (Jaiswal, 26.4ov), 5-83 (Pant, 30.2ov), 6-95 (Khan, 33.6ov), 7-103 (Ashwin, 35.5ov), 8-136 (Jadeja, 43.1ov), 9-142 (Deep, 43.6ov), 10-156 (Bumrah, 45.3ov) Bowling: Tim Southee 6-1-18-1, William O’Rourke 3-2-5-0, Ajaz Patel 11-1-54-0, Mitchell Santner 19.3-1-53-7, Glenn Phillips 6-0-26-2 New Zealand 2nd innings Tom Latham lbw b Sundar 86 Devon Conway lbw b Sundar 17 Will Young lbw b Ashwin 23 Rachin Ravindra b Sundar 09 Daryl Mitchell c Haiswal b Sundar 18 Tom Blundell b Jadeja 41 Glenn Phillips not out 48 Mitchell Santner c Bumrah b Jadeja 04 Tim Southee c Sharma b Ashwin 00 Ajaz Patel c Sundar b Jadeja 01 William O’Rourke run out 00 Extras (lb5, nb3) 08 Total (all out; 69.4 overs) 255 Fall of wickets: 1-36 (Conway, 9.2ov), 2-78 (Young, 18.3ov), 3-89 (Ravindra, 21.5ov), 4-123 (Mitchell, 29.2ov), 5-183 (Latham, 44.4ov), 6-231 (Blundell, 59.3ov), 7-237 (Santner, 63.5ov), 8-238 (Southee, 64.3ov), 9-241 (Patel, 67.3ov), 10-255 (O’Rourke, 69.4ov) Bowling: Ravichandran Ashwin 25-2-97-2, Washington Sundar 19-0-56-4, Ravindra Jadeja 19.4-3-72-3, Jasprit Bumrah 6-1-25-0 India 2nd innings (Target 359 runs) Yashasvi Jaiswal c Mitchell b Santner 77 Rohit Sharma c Young b Santner 08 Shubman Gill c Mitchell b Santner 23 Virat Kohli lbw b Santner 17 Rishabh Pant run out 00 Wasington Sundar c Young b Phillips 21 Sarfaraz Khan b Sundar 09 Ravindra Jadeja c Southee b Patel 42 Ravichandran Ashwin c Mitchell b Santner 18 Akash Deep c Ravindra b Patel 01 Jasprit Bumrah not out 10 Extras (b12, lb6, nb1) 19 Total (all out; 60.2 overs) 245 Fall of wickets: 1-34 (Sharma, 5.4ov), 2-96 (Gill, 15.3ov), 3-127 (Jaiswal, 21.3ov), 4-127 (Pant, 22.2ov), 5-147 (Kohli, 29.6ov), 6-165 (Khan, 35.2ov), 7-167 (Sundar, 36.6ov), 8-206 (Ashwin, 49.3ov), 9-229 (Deep, 58.5ov), 10-245 (Jadeja, 60.2ov) Bowling: Tim Southee 2-0-15-0, William O’Rourke 1-0-5-0, Mitchell Santner 29-2-104-6, Ajaz Patel 12.2-0-43-2, Glenn Phillips 16-0-60-1 |