The path to victory is not easy for Team India in the Mumbai Test, so far this target has been achieved only once in the fourth innings.
Shubman Gill batting in the Mumbai Test match.
When the second day of the third match of the three-match Test series being played between India and New Zealand ended, the match had reached a very exciting turn. In the second day’s play, Team India was limited to 263 runs in its first innings, in which they got a lead of 28 runs compared to the first innings score of the Kiwi team. After this, when the day’s play was over, the New Zealand team had scored 171 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in their second innings, in which they had taken a lead of 143 runs. Now in such a situation, it is considered certain that the Indian team will get the target of around 150 runs in the fourth innings of this match, in such a situation, it is not going to be an easy task at all for them to achieve this target in the fourth innings on this pitch.
So far, 150 plus runs have been successfully chased only once at Wankhede Stadium.
In this match being played at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium, so far strong performance has been seen from the spin bowlers of both the teams, in such a situation it will not be easy for the Indian team to chase the target in the fourth innings. In Test cricket, so far only once at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium has any team been successful in chasing the target of more than 150 runs in the fourth innings. In the year 2000, the South African team had achieved the target of 163 runs in the fourth innings of the Test match played at Wankhede Stadium during the tour of India, but since then no target of 150 or more runs has been achieved on this ground. Could not succeed in achieving in the innings. In the test match played between India and Australia on this ground in 2004, the Australian team had a target of 107 runs in the fourth innings and was limited to only 93 runs.
Team India’s top order will be in charge
Till now, in this Test series against New Zealand, the Indian team’s batsmen have not been able to perform as per expectations at all, in which the bats of captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have been seen completely silent. In such a situation, to chase the target in the fourth innings, Team India will have to show a much better game with the bat, in which everyone will once again have expectations from Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant, who scored half-centuries in the first innings.
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