In the Pune Test match against New Zealand, Washington Sundar gave a fantastic performance. In the first innings by itself, he took a flurry of wickets. In this match, he achieved things that he had never been able to do in his Test career. In the first innings, he was the most successful bowler for India.
In the Pune Test match, Team India’s star allrounder Washington Sundar has shown him to be a formidable rival. By bringing Washington Sundar back to the Test team after three years, captain Rohit Sharma and head coach Gautam Gambhir took a significant risk. This trust was rewarded by Washington Sundar, who gave a great performance in the opening innings of the game. In this match, he got a lot of wickets and caused a lot of trouble for the Kiwi batters. He performed something all through this that he had never been able to do in his Test career.
Washington Sundar took many wickets.
Washington Sundar’s comeback was amazing. In the first inning, he broke the order of batting for New Zealand. He took seven wickets in the first innings, giving him India’s best bowler. Let us point out that this is the first time Washington Sundar took five or more wickets in a Test match innings. He chose big batsmen from New Zealand as targets during this time.
Rachin Ravindra was the first wicket taken by Washington Sundar in this match. After this, he also targeted Ajaz Patel, Glenn Phillips, Tim Southee, Tom Blundell, Daryl Mitchell, and Mitchell Santner. In this innings, Washington Sundar was also India’s most economical bowler. Also, this is his most powerful career era. Washington Sundar took more wickets in an innings this time around, compared to his previous four trips for Team India, in which he had taken six wickets. The distinctive feature was that he bowled cleanly to take five of these seven wickets.
Getting a chance in the starting eleven was doubted
The risk of Washington Sundar having a chance was questioned before the start of this match. In actuality, Kuldeep Yadav was replaced in this game by Washington Sundar. Sunil Gavaskar also referred to this decision as wrong in this regard. In his mind, Kuldeep deserved to have been given an opportunity in this game. But Washington Sundar’s performance shocked everyone. Washington Sundar’s powerful bowling led New Zealand’s first inning to collapse at 259 runs. In addition to Washington, R Ashwin was able to take three wickets.