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- Updated: September 23, 2016
India have expressed frustration at what they hinted was a ploy of New Zealand batsmen to slow the game down through comfort breaks. They feel that denied their bowlers momentum just as they had begun to build pressure on Kane Williamson and Tom Latham. In a wicketless second session, before rain washed out the rest of the day, India managed to get in 26 overs. Eight of these 26 overs were bowled by the quicks. There were seven to eight unscheduled breaks taken in the session.
India’s batting coach Sanjay Bangar was asked about the frustration of the rain break when he spoke about the New Zealand tactics. “It was starting to turn a bit, and the bowlers were getting into good rhythm,” Bangar said. “I think the break of rain and the intermittent breaks in between definitely hampered the bowlers’ rhythm. That is something that we need to be aware of. And if somebody has come out with a ploy we need to negotiate that as well.”
There was a period towards the end of the second session when the ball started to do tricks for the spinners. For the last 20 minutes or so of that session, not in this context, you felt the batsmen could do with a break because the bowlers seemed to be building towards something. The last 10 overs of the day brought 25 runs compared to the overall run rate of 3.23.
Bangar seemed to suggest it was a deliberate ploy. He did say that …