Mumbai: After dismissing India for 263 and limiting their first-innings lead to 28, New Zealand almost wiped out the deficit by tea on the second day of the third Test at the Wankhede Stadium here. They were 26 for 1 after having lost their captain Tom Latham for 1.
Earlier, a post-lunch collapse saw India handing over the advantage, not for the first time in the series, as Patel bowled some tidy overs. He delivered the first maiden of the day before inducing some edges. But it was Glenn Phillips who got the first wicket of the post-lunch session when Ravindra Jadeja pocked a deliver that turned from the wicket. Daryl Mitchell took a tumbling catch at the first slip.
Shubaman Gill, who started to free himself after playing in, reached 90 before being foxed by a Patel delivery that he nicked to the slip.
Sarfaraz Khan could not make his outing in home ground count as he gloved one that took off the pitch from Patel. Ravichandran Aswin was his next victim, who again gloved one to the first slip.
Washington Sundar swung his bat around to remain unbeaten at 38.
