Rohit Sharma: Today (18 October) the third day of the first Test match was played between Team India and New Zealand. After scoring 180 runs at the loss of 3 wickets on the second day, when the New Zealand team came on the field on the third day, thanks to the innings of the team's all-rounder Rachin Ravindra and fast bowler Tim Southee, they scored 402 runs in their first innings and defeated Team India. Got a lead of 356 runs after the first innings.

After which when Team India came to bat in the second innings, at one time Team India was heading towards a shameful defeat but the way Virat Kohli and Sarfaraz Khan batted in the last session. Due to this, Team India has now made a great comeback in the match and in such a situation, if Rohit Sharma plays some such masterstrokes on the fourth day, then Team India can also defeat New Zealand on the Bengaluru ground. By the end of the third day's play, Team India had scored 231 runs at the loss of 3 wickets.

Thanks to Rachin Ravindra's century, New Zealand team scored 402 runs.

At the beginning of the third day's play between Team India and New Zealand (IND VS NZ), Team India lost the first 4 wickets very quickly but after that Rachin Ravindra and Tim Southee batted stormily for New Zealand. While doing so they played a partnership of 137 runs.

Talking about New Zealand team, Rachin Ravindra scored the maximum runs for his team. Rachin Ravindra played an inning of 134 runs for his team. Due to which the New Zealand team scored 402 runs in the first innings and the team got a lead of 356 runs over India.

Virat and Sarfaraz saved the honor of Team India on the third day

In the third day's match between Team India and New Zealand (IND VS NZ), when Team India came to bat in the second innings, Team India made a half-century partnership for the first wicket.

After that, when captain Rohit Sharma also returned to the pavilion on the team score of 95 runs, then Virat Kohli and Sarfaraz Khan played half-centuries for Team India and at the end of the third day's play, the team Gave an important contribution in taking India's score to 231 runs at the loss of 3 wickets.

Kohli completed 9 thousand runs in test cricket

Team India's veteran Virat Kohli has completed the figure of 9 thousand runs in his Test cricket career in the ongoing match at Chinnaswamy Stadium. Virat Kohli took the help of 197 innings of 116 matches to touch the figure of 9000 thousand runs in Test cricket. During this period, Virat Kohli has also played 29 centuries and 31 half-centuries in Test cricket.

Team India can win with these masterstrokes of Rohit Sharma

At the end of the third day's play, Team India's score was 231 runs at the loss of 3 wickets. From here, if Team India continues to bat in the same manner for the next 2 more sessions, then Team India will be able to win the match by trapping New Zealand in the maze created by captain Rohit Sharma with his spin bowlers in the fourth innings. can also be successful.