New Zealand surprised everyone and started the Test series against Team India with a win. New Zealand defeated the Indian team by 8 wickets in the first Test match played in Bengaluru, which was its first Test win in India in 36 years. After this victory, the Kiwi team will be entering the second test match with higher spirits but before that, a fear of New Zealand also came to the fore. Despite the confidence of victory, it is such a fear due to which the New Zealand team resorted to imitation in practice. Imitation of Team India's star pacer Jasprit Bumrah, whose fear is ingrained in the minds of Kiwi batsmen.

'Copy' to deal with Bumrah

The second test match of the series is starting from Thursday 24th October in Pune. It is believed that for this match, the pitch of Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium may be slow, on which there will be less bounce and the ball may turn from the beginning. This means that it is clear that spinners will play an important role on this pitch and in such a situation, star spinners like Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav will be the biggest threat to New Zealand. Keeping this in mind, the Kiwi team also kept trying to sharpen its batting.

Despite all this being clear, New Zealand's batsmen are afraid of Team India's star fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah and this was seen in their practice session. According to a report in the English newspaper Indian Express, during the practice session, the New Zealand team asked one of its throw-down specialists to bowl at an oblique angle, just like the way Bumrah's hand comes at an oblique angle. Obviously this was a preparation to deal with Bumrah but the Kiwi batsmen did not get much success because this was not a natural angle for the throwdown specialist. It has been told in the report that the ball thrown from this angle was a very short pitch and proved to be wide.

Why is Bumrah afraid even on spinners' pitch?

The Kiwi batsmen's attempt to practice by imitating Bumrah's action probably was not very successful. In such a situation, the challenge for him again in the Pune Test will be equally difficult. Even though spin will prove to be a bigger threat for New Zealand on the slow pitch of Pune, but if anyone has watched the Visakhapatnam Test between India and England earlier this year, then he can tell that even on the Pune pitch, Bumrah has some charisma. Can show. On the lifeless pitch of Visakhapatnam, Bumrah took 6 wickets in the first innings, in which there were 4 victims of top and middle order including Joe Root and Ben Stokes. In the second innings also, he took 3 wickets and led Team India to victory.