Shake New Zealand chose to bat vs India
New Zealand won their second toss of the series and decided to bat first as they sought a first whitewash against India in India. It was a big draw to win again because batting last wasn’t expected to be fun. However, Dinesh Karthik, who inspected the pitch, said there was moisture on the surface, which was also expected to lead to early spin, then some settling and a lot of spin after that.
KL Rahul continued to sit out despite the batting miss against spin in Pune.
New Zealand 1 Tom Latham (captain), 2 Devon Conway, 3 Will Young, 4 Rachin Ravindra, 5 Daryl Mitchell, 6 Tom Blundell (week), 7 Glenn Phillips, 8 Ish Sodhi, 9 Matt Henry, 10 Ajaz Patel, 11 Will O’ Rourke’
India 1 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2 Rohit Sharma (captain), 3 Shubman Gill, 4 Virat Kohli, 5 Rishabh Pant (wk), 6 Sarfaraz Khan, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 R Ashwin, 9 Washington Sundar, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 Akash Deep
