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Indore Test, Day 3: Ravichandran Ashwin's Deadly Spell Leaves New Zealand Reeling

October 10, 2016 18:06

A brilliant six-wicket haul from Ravichandran Ashwin saw India maintain their dominance on New Zealand and remain firmly on course for a 3-0 series whitewash at the end of third day's play in the final Test match in Indore on Monday

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After scoring a mammoth 557 in first innings, India were looking to take quick wickets on Monday morning. (Images Credit: BCCI)
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Tom Latham started off cautiously against the Indian seamers Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Shami.
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Guptill played his natural game and punished all loose balls that came his way.
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The duo added 118 runs for the first wicket to put New Zealand in control.
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Just at the stroke of lunch, Ravichandran Ashwin removed Latham, who looked set to get a hundred.
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For the third time in three innings, Ashwin got rid of Kane Williamson. The New Zealand skipper scored just eight off 25 balls.
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Ross Taylor became Ashwin's next victim. The former Kiwi skipper has been in poor form in this series and has scored just 57 runs in five innings so far.
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Guptill, who scored his first fifty of the series, was caught out of his crease at the non-striker's end when Ashwin deflected a straight shot from Luke Ronchi onto the stumps.
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James Neesham then revived New Zealand's innings, sharing a 53-run stand with BJ Watling for the sixth wicket and 52 with Mitchell Santner for seventh.
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But Ravindra Jadeja removed both Santner and Watling to put the visitors in all sorts of trouble.
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Ashwin then removed Boult to end with the figures of 6/81. It was his 20th five-wicket haul in Tests.
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Gautam Gambhir's return to Test cricket ended in agony, when he aggravated a shoulder injury to go back to the pavilion retired hurt, during India's second innings.
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India were 18 for no loss at stumps increasing their overall lead to 276 runs.

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