Wellington Test Day 4: The Test match being played in Wellington between England and New Zealand (ENG vs NZ) has reached an exciting turn. On the first two days of this Test, where the England team was unilaterally dominating, the Kiwi team dominated the next two days. The condition is that despite trailing by a huge margin of 226 runs on the basis of the first innings, New Zealand came back strongly while playing the follow-on and scored 483 runs in their second innings, giving England a target of 258 runs to win.
In the Wellington Test, England declared their first innings at 435 runs losing 8 wickets. After this, New Zealand had lost 7 wickets for 138 runs till the end of the second day’s play. Here the Kiwi team was behind by 297 runs. After this, on the third day, the tail-end batsmen of the Kiwi team took their team to 209 runs. After trailing by 226 runs in the first innings, the Kiwi team had to follow on.
Got a follow on on the third day, a target of 258 runs on the fourth day
While playing the follow-on, the Kiwi batsmen gave a good fight and scored 202 runs losing 3 wickets by the end of the third day’s play. After this, on the fourth day of the match today (February 27), the Kiwi batsmen showed a strong game. Thanks to the innings of Kane Williamson (132), Tom Blundell (90), Daryl Mitchell (54), the Kiwi team scored 483 runs in their second innings. Here England spinner Jack Leach got 5 wickets. In this way England got the target of 258 runs.
England lost the first wicket
Chasing this target of 258, the English team also lost the first wicket till the end of the fourth day’s play. The first English wicket fell in the form of Jack Crowley (24) on a total of 39 runs. At stumps, the England team had scored 48 runs losing one wicket. That is, on the fifth day, he will have to score 210 more runs to win, while he will have 9 wickets left in his hand.
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