Southampton: Kyle Jamieson picked up his fifth five-wicket haul to dismiss India for 217 on the third day of the World Test Championship final on Sunday. In reply, New Zealand are 101/2 at stumps in the first innings with opener Devon Conway (54) continuing his fine form with the bat.
Ross Taylor (0 batting) and Kane Williamson (12 batting) will resume batting on Day 4 with New Zealand still 116 runs behind with eight wickets in hand. The third morning belonged to New Zealand totally with Jamieson doing the magic with the ball.
The lanky 6’8” dismissed his Royal Challengers Bangalore captain for 44 plumb in front before forcing Rishabh Pant to edge behind at Tom Latham for just four. Ajinkya Rahane tried to put some resistance with a gritty 49 before he disappointingly fell to an obvious short-ball ploy from Neil Wagner.
Rahane would be highly disappointed with the shot he played, hesitantly pulling straight into the hands of Latham, after all his hard work in the first hour of the session. Ravindra Jadeja (15) and Ravichandran Ashwin (22) too couldn’t do much with the bat.
Coming into bat, Conway led the New Zealand charge with a fine half-century before being dismissed by Ishant Sharma just before the play stopped. Earlier, Ashwin gave India the breakthrough picking Latham (30) to break the 70-run opening stand.
Brief scores: India 217 (Rahane 49, Kohli 44; Jamieson 5/31); New Zealand 101/2 (Devon Conway 54, Tom Latham 30; Ishant Sharma 1/19, Ashwin 1/20). Match to continue.
