Mitchell Santner took a total of 7 wickets in the Pune test match.
On the second day of the second match of the three-match Test series being played between India and New Zealand at the Pune stadium, the bowling of Kiwi team’s spin bowler Mitchell Santner was spectacular. Team India had bundled out New Zealand team’s first innings on the score of 259 runs on the first day of this match, after which everyone expected that better batting performance would be seen from Team India, but in the second day’s play the Indian team got its first innings score of 259 runs. Only 156 runs were scored in the innings, in which the magic of New Zealand team’s spin bowler Mitchell Santner was seen, who took a total of 7 wickets in his name.
Kohli, Shubman and Sarfaraz, no one had any answer to Santner’s balls.
At the end of the first day’s play of the Pune Test match, the Indian team had scored 16 runs at the loss of one wicket. In the second day’s play, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill had taken the score to 50 runs, but from here the magic of Mitchell Santner’s bowling was seen, who first sent Gill to the pavilion and after that he bowled Kohli with one of his best inside outs. Bowled on a full ball bowled. Apart from Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Santner made Sarfaraz Khan, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Akash Deep and Jasprit Bumrah his victims in the first innings of Team India. Santner has become the third best bowler for New Zealand in Test cricket against India, breaking the 12-year-old record of Tim Southee. Santner took 7 wickets while giving only 53 runs in this innings.
Kiwi bowler who bowled the best in an innings against India in Test cricket
Ajaz Patel – 10 wickets for 117 runs (2021, Mumbai Test)
Richard Hadlee – 7 wickets for 23 runs (1976, Wellington Test)
Mitchell Santner – 7 wickets for 53 runs (2024, Pune Test)
Tim Southee – 7 wickets for 64 runs (2012, Bengaluru Test)
Simon Doull – 7 wickets for 65 runs (1998, Wellington Test)
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