India vs New Zealand 2nd Test Day 2: The second match of the three-match Test series between India and New Zealand is going on at Maharashtra Cricket Stadium in Pune. New Zealand, who won the toss and elected to bat first, were all out for 259 runs in the first innings on the first day. In reply, India scored 156 runs in their first innings. Currently, New Zealand's second innings is going on. By the end of the second day's play, they have scored 198 runs after losing five wickets.

IND vs NZ 2nd Test Playing XIs

India: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), Sarfaraz Khan, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Akash Deep, Jasprit Bumrah.

New Zealand: Tom Latham(c), Devon Conway, Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Blundell(w), Glenn Phillips, Tim Southee, Mitchell Santner, Ajaz Patel, William O’Rourke.

The second day's play has ended. New Zealand has scored 198 runs after losing five wickets in their second innings and the team is in a strong position. The Kiwi team had scored 259 runs in their first innings and in reply, Team India was bowled out for 156 runs. In this way, the total lead of the New Zealand team in the second innings has reached 301 runs.

There are still three days of play left and in such a situation the result is certain. The way the ball is spinning, it will not be easy for Team India to chase any target above 300 in the fourth innings. At the end of the day's play, Glenn Phillips is unbeaten on nine runs and Tom Blundell is unbeaten on 30 runs. The day's play was in New Zealand's name.

India started playing today at 16 runs for one wicket and lost the remaining nine wickets in scoring 140 runs. In the Indian innings, New Zealand spinner Mitchell Santner gave the best performance of his career by taking seven wickets for 53 runs, due to which India was reduced to 156 runs in the first innings at the MCA Stadium.

New Zealand's team came out to bat with a lead of 103 runs in the second innings and the team is once again close to 200 runs. In the second innings, captain Tom Latham scored the highest 86 runs for New Zealand. At the same time, Devon Conway scored 17 runs, Will Young 23 runs, Rachin Ravindra nine runs, Daryll Mitchell was out after scoring 18 runs.

New Zealand is trying to win its historic first Test series in India for the first time in 68 years. None of the New Zealand batsmen seemed to have any problem batting on the pitch, while earlier the star studded batting line up collapsed for the second time in this series. In the last Test in Bengaluru, on home soil, the Indian team was bowled out for 46 runs and had to face defeat against New Zealand on its own ground in 36 years.