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Cricket News Desk. The battle of the second Test between India and New Zealand started from today at the MCA Stadium in Pune, but on the first day of the match, Washington Sundar and Ashwin wreaked such havoc that the visiting team was forced to surrender. Today here New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat first, while big changes were seen from both the teams.

The visiting team made one change and gave Mitchell Santner a chance in place of Matt Henry, while captain Rohit Sharma surprised everyone by making three big changes. Captain Rohit dropped Rahul, Siraj and Kuldeep and gave a chance to Gill, Akash Deep and Washington Sundar. Did the work of giving. Today, captain Tom Latham and Devon Conway started the innings for the Kiwi team, who came to bat first after winning the toss, while on the other hand, Bumrah bowled the first over for India.

It was not a good start for the Kiwi team and in the very first session, Ashwin wreaked havoc and took two wickets. He first sent captain Tom Latham lbw to the pavilion on a personal score of 15 runs and then dismissed Will Young on the score of 18. Ashwin also gave the third big blow to New Zealand and sent Devon Conway, who was becoming a threat to India, to the pavilion on a personal score of 76 runs. After Ashwin, Washington Sundar wreaked havoc and pushed the Kiwi team on the back foot. First, Rachin Ravindra was given the fourth blow by being dismissed on a personal score of 65 runs.

Washington Sundar's havoc did not stop there and he broke the back of the Kiwi team by dismissing Daryl Mitchell on a personal score of 18 runs and Glenn Phillips on 9 runs. After this, Tim Saudi was dismissed for 5 runs and Ajaz Patel was dismissed for 4 runs. Sent to the pavilion on personal score. In the end, Washington Sundar bowled Mitchell Santner on a personal score of 33 runs and bundled out the entire Kiwi team for 259 runs. For India, Washington Sundar took the maximum of 7 wickets and Ashwin took three wickets. In response, India also had a bad start and the first blow came in the form of captain Rohit who became the victim of Tim Saudi without opening the account. On the first day By the end of the game, India had scored 16 runs after losing one wicket. India was 243 runs behind the visiting team. Till stumps, Shubman Gill returned unbeaten after scoring 10 runs and Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 6 runs.