New Zealand had a very good start in the second match of the Test series against Team India. In this match being played at Maharashtra Cricket Association Ground in Pune, New Zealand lost only 2 wickets in the first session even on the spin track. Indian captain Rohit Sharma used spinners from the beginning, but seeing the fielding done by him, India's legendary player criticized him in front of everyone. In fact, former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar termed Rohit as a defensive captain in the live match.
Team India could not get many wickets in the first session of the match. In such a situation, Sunil Gavaskar criticized Rohit Sharma's field placement during commentary on the first day and said that the captain's strategy was very defensive at the beginning of the match. Sunil Gavaskar described the decision to place fielders at long on and long off at the beginning of the match as defensive. Actually, Rohit Sharma was going to avoid giving boundaries so that he could get wickets. But Sunil Gavaskar did not like his decision.
Rohit's field placement shows that he was trying to stop boundaries and control the run flow at the beginning of the match. But when fielders were placed at long on and long off before playing a lofted shot, Sunil Gavaskar said about Rohit Sharma that he is a defensive captain and a negative captain. Along with this, he said how do you try to stop boundaries in the beginning. Now his statement is becoming quite viral on social media.
New Zealand's team is batting first after winning the toss in this match. During this, New Zealand scored 92 runs in the first session and lost only 2 wickets. Both these successes were achieved by R Ashwin. After this, the Indian team managed to take 3 wickets in the second session. That is, after two sessions, New Zealand scored 201 runs at the loss of 5 wickets. R Ashwin has taken three wickets so far. At the same time, Washington Sundar has had 2 successes.
