PTI
New Delhi, Sept 17: Rohit Sharma (18) failed to get back to form on a flat Feroz Shah Kotla track here but his Mumbai teammates, Kaustubh Pawar (100 retd, 228b, 15×4, 1×6) and Suryakumar Yadav (103, 86b, 9×4, 8×6) scored contrasting centuries to frustrate New Zealand on the penultimate day of the warm-up match Saturday.
Supporting Pawar and Yadav were Siddhesh Lad (86 n o, 62b, 7×4, 7×6), rookie Arman Jaffer (69, 123b, 9×4, 1×6) and Aditya Tare (53 n o, 76b, 7×4). Mumbai, resuming the innings at 29 for one, went on to reach 431 for five at stumps on day two after New Zealand had posted 324 for 7 on the opening day.
For the visitors, it was a tough day in the field with their bowlers toiling in the sun with little success. Not a lot was expected from the quicker bowlers on a flat deck but the effort from New Zealand’s spin trio of Ish Sodhi (2/132), Mitchell Santer (1/71) and Mark Craig (0/60) was also nothing to write home about.
Looking ahead to the Test series, the lone disappointment from the India’s point was the early fall of Rohit. He walked into the middle after the fall of Jaffer, took 10 balls to get off the mark but he opened his account in style, a straight hit for a six on the bowling of leg-spinner Sodhi.
However, that was the sole high point of his brief stay as another attempt to hit Sodhi out of the park saw him being stumped.
