India vs New Zealand 3rd Test: The second day's play is over. New Zealand has scored 171 runs for 9 wickets in its second innings. Its total lead has increased to 143 runs. Earlier, India scored 263 runs in the first innings and gained a lead of 28 runs over the Kiwi team in the first innings. Shubman Gill scored 90 runs while Pant hit a quick half-century. On the third day, the Indian team would like to achieve the target by taking one wicket of the Kiwi team early.

IND vs NZ 3rd Test Playing XIs

India: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Sarfaraz Khan, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj.

New Zealand: Tom Latham (captain), Devon Conway, Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Blundell (wicketkeeper), Glenn Phillips, Ish Sodhi, Matt Henry, Ajaz Patel, William ORourke.

In this match India's first innings ended at 263 runs. New Zealand won the toss and batted first and scored 235 runs in their first innings. In this regard, Team India got a lead of 28 runs. Shubman Gill scored the highest 90 runs for India. On Saturday, India started playing at 86 runs for four wickets and lost the remaining six wickets in scoring 177 runs. Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant took the Indian innings forward today and batted aggressively. Both of them made a partnership of 96 runs for the fifth wicket. Pant scored the 13th half-century of his Test career and Gill scored the seventh half-century during this period.

Pant got out LBW in pursuit of big hits. He was sent to the pavilion by Ish Sodhi. He was out after scoring 60 runs in 59 balls with the help of eight fours and two sixes. After this the Indian innings faltered. At one time India's score was 180 runs for four wickets and then Team India lost the last six wickets in scoring 83 runs. After Pant's dismissal, Ravindra Jadeja was out after scoring 14 runs, Ravichandran Ashwin was out after scoring six runs. Shubman Gill played an innings of 90 runs in 146 balls with the help of seven fours and one six.

Washington Sundar hit some big shots in the end and gave India the lead. He remained unbeaten after scoring 38 runs in 36 balls with the help of four fours and two sixes. For New Zealand, Ejaz Patel took five wickets. At the same time, Matt Henry, Glenn Phillips and Ish Sodhi got one wicket each.

New Zealand scored 171 runs for nine wickets in the second innings and took a lead of 143 runs. Ajaz Patel returned unbeaten after scoring seven runs. Will Young scored the most runs for the Kiwis on Saturday. He played a brilliant innings of 51 runs. Apart from him, Conway scored 22, Mitchell 21 and Phillips scored 26 runs. The remaining four batsmen could not even touch the double-digit mark. For India, Jadeja took four wickets, Ashwin took three wickets. At the same time, Akash Deep and Sundar got one wicket each.

India has only chased down a target once at the Wankhede Stadium when it got to 51 runs against England in 1984. In this situation 3rd day of match will be interesting and challenging for India.