The test match being played in Wellington between England and New Zealand (ENG vs NZ) has come to an exciting turn. In the first two days of this Test, where the England team dominated one-sidedly, the Kiwi team dominated the next two days. The proviso is that despite trailing by a huge margin of 226 runs on the first innings basis, New Zealand came from behind strongly while playing the continuation 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. Following this, New Zealand had lost 7 wickets for 138 runs by the end of the second day’s play. Here the New Zealand team was behind by 297 runs. Following this, on the third day, the Kiwi team’s tail batsmen led their team to 209 runs. After losing by 226 runs in the first innings, the Kiwi team had to carry on.
While playing the follow up the Kiwi batsmen put up a good fight and scored 202 runs losing 3 wickets at the end of the third day game. After this, in the fourth day of today’s game (February 27), the Kiwi batsmen showed a strong game. Thanks to innings from Kane Williamson (132), Tom Blundell (90), Daryl Mitchell (54), the Kiwi team scored 483 runs in their second innings. Here England spinner Jack Leach took 5 wickets. In this way England achieved the goal of 258 runs.
Chasing this target of 258, the English team also lost the first wicket until late in play on the fourth day. The first English wicket fell in the form of Jack Crowley (24) in a total of 39 runs. On stumps, the England team had scored 48 runs while losing a 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 hand.
