Ind vs NZ, WTC Final Update: NZ 44-2. WICKET - Devon Conway lbw Ashwin 19.
Ind vs NZ, WTC Final Update: NZ 33-1. WICKET - Tom Latham st Pant b Ashwin 9 (41).
India vs New Zealand live score: NZ 85 for 2. CATCH DROPPED! How crucial is that? Ross Taylor dropped at first slip by Cheteshwar Pujara. Jasprit Bumrah the bowler. Perfect delivery, draws the edge, goes at a comfortable height but Pujara spills it. Last chance gone?
Update: Wriddhiman Saha is keeping wickets now, as Rishabh Pant is unwell.
India vs New Zealand live score: NZ 74 for 2. This partnership is guiding New Zealand towards victory. They're doing it without too many risks. Helped along by some ordinary bowling from India's pacers. Ravindra Jadeja is into the attack now.
Ind vs NZ, WTC Final Update: NZ 60-2. Ross Taylor realises attack is the best form of defence. Two fours vs R Ashwin in one over. New Zealand will breathe a lot easier now.
Ind vs NZ, WTC Final Update: NZ 46-2. DRINKS - It's an intense battle at the moment. A terrific end to the World Test Championship is on the cards, whichever way it goes. Ashwin's double strike has put the brakes on NZ's scoring. Intense stuff
India vs New Zealand live score: NZ 46 for 2. R Ashwin now has 71 wickets in the World Test Championship, the most in the competition. Is he the Man of the Tournament?
Ind vs NZ, WTC Final Update: NZ 44-2. WICKET - Devon Conway lbw Ashwin 19. Ashwin again! He's creating plenty of issues for New Zealand. Skids on with the angle, strikes him plumb in front. Conway doesn't review. Ashwin keeping India in this game. Terrific stuff.
India vs New Zealand: WTC Final NZ 39/1: Nearly a wicket, Kane Williamson given out lbw to R Ashwin playing the sweep shot. But he reviews successfully. Ball missing leg stump. How big is that.
Ind vs NZ, WTC Final Update: NZ 33-1. WICKET - Tom Latham st Pant b Ashwin 9 (41). The wicket India wanted. Bumrah was ordinary at the other end but Ashwin provides the first breakthrough yet again. Tossed up nicely, Latham came down the track and misses it completely. Do India have a glimmer of hope here?
India vs New Zealand: WTC Final NZ 22/0: Jasprit Bumrah and R Ashwin bowling in tandem. Bumrah beats Tom Latham's bat thrice in a row, but he needs the edge. Ashwin got the leading edge but it popped over his head. No luck for India.
Ind vs NZ, WTC Final Update: NZ 19-0. The final session starts. 45 overs, 120 to get. New Zealand clear favourites, but who knows? Jasprit Bumrah to start.
India vs New Zealand: WTC Final NZ 19/0: That would be Tea and NZ openers walk back to the pavillion absolutely convinced that they can make history at Hampshire Bowl. They need another 120 for a win with lots of overs in hand.
India vs New Zealand: WTC Final NZ 10/0: Slow start here from NZ. A lot of voices from slip cordon; Kohli leading the charge. One good thing as far as India is concerned is that they look charged up, the body language is all good and positive. Meanwhile if NZ win this, what a turnaround would that be.
India vs New Zealand: WTC Final NZ 1/0: That's the end of the second over. Kohli has made sure this time Shami and Ishant share the new ball. Meanwhile NZ need 138 and they are not in a hurry. They have lots of overs.
India vs New Zealand: WTC Final India 170 ALL OUT--WICKET, That's the end of the innings. NZ need just 139 to win with 53 overs remaining. As easy as it can get. Poor shot selection from the likes of Pant and Jadeja made sure that tail-enders remain ineffective.
India vs New Zealand: WTC Final India 156/8--What an over that was from Trent Boult. Knockout punch to be precise. Rishabh Pant and Ravi Ashwin--India last batting hopes--are back in the dressing room. This game is as good as over.
India's floppy tail could do with burgling a few here. This is pulsating! #WTCfinal
— Andrew Miller (@miller_cricket) June 23, 2021
India vs New Zealand: WTC Final India 156/6--But When Rishabh Pant is there, can you be bored? Pant is going after the bowler. He has executed a number of pulls. NZ have fielders across the ground and that's why he is not able to get those runs but the intent is there. He just waiting to explode. His fans know, he can't play the waiting game. But that is the need of the hour as we have close to 60 overs left in the day!
India have lost their sixth wicket. Is it still heading for a draw?
Turns out the sixth day might just have made this all worthwhile after all. Fancy that! #WTCfinal https://t.co/L1IFQH9uNv
— Andrew Miller (@miller_cricket) June 23, 2021
India vs New Zealand: WTC Final India 142/6--WICKET! Ravindra Jadeja edges and it's an easy catch behind the wicket by BJ Watling. Brlliant bowling from Neil Wagner. Stuck to his line and got rewarded. Jadeja on the other hand had a lapse in concentration and India are in trouble.
India vs New Zealand: WTC Final India 138/5: Pant and Jadeja are at it and they are making sure that India doesn't lose any more wickets. Meawhile here's what Kohli did to BJ Watling. The Kiwi players is playing his last Test match: BJ Watling who is playing his last international game was congratulated by India skipper Virat Kohli. India are in a spot of bother but will try hard to save the game at Southampton against New Zealand. Meanwhile the skipper was the first to congratulate the veteran NZ player who is playing his last game. He had earlier announced that this would be his last international game for New Zealand.
IND vs NZ Live Score, WTC final, Southampton Test, Day 6: Ind vs NZ, WTC Final Update: NZ 44-2. WICKET – Devon Conway lbw Ashwin 19. Ashwin again! He’s creating plenty of issues for New Zealand. Skids on with the angle, strikes him plumb in front. Conway doesn’t review. Ashwin keeping India in this game. Terrific stuff.
Day 5 Report
Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara see through the rest of the day. An interesting day today, with India and NZ battling hard. India’s bowlers did well but NZ’s tail wagged, as teams often do against India. India have wiped out the small deficit and are into a slender lead now. Tomorrow is going to be a thrilling day, hopefully.
New Zealand was somewhat comfortably placed at 101-2 after fast bowler Kyle Jamiesen’s 5-31 dismissed India for 217 in the first innings on the third day of the rain-affected inaugural WTC final. The first day was completely washed out while only 64.4 overs could be bowled on the second day. India’s middle order was rattled by an all-out New Zealand pace attack on Sunday before Devon Conway (54) and Tom Latham (30) provided a solid opening stand of 70 runs. There is the provision of a reserve day and there’s a much better forecast over the remaining two days. If the outcome is a draw, the trophy will be shared. Given a standard men’s Test lasts a maximum of five days, this match would usually be destined for a draw. The provision of a reserve day on Wednesday, however, offers the hope that one team will be able to claim a winners’ cheque worth $1.6 million, with the runners-up receiving $800,000.
But that is still no guarantee a two-year process to crown Test cricket’s first official world champion will end with an outright winner. The International Cricket Council confirmed Monday the final would be extended into Wednesday if the match had not been completed by close of play on Tuesday’s fifth day. But the global governing body stressed the aim of using the reserve day was to do with making up the overs lost in the game, rather than trying to force a result The ICC added a decision would be taken by the match officials 60 minutes before the scheduled close of play on day five. Tickets have now gone on sale to spectators who had paid to attend the washed-out first and fourth days, with fans who missed out in the initial ballot able to buy tickets from Tuesday.
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| Rank | Team | Points | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | England | 6088 | 277 |
| 2 | India | 6811 | 272 |
| 3 | New Zealand | 6048 | 263 |
| 4 | Pakistan | 7818 | 261 |
| 5 | Australia | 5930 | 258 |
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