Kane Williamson Will Miss IND vs NZ 2nd Pune Test: The second match of the three-match Test series being played between India and New Zealand is to be played from 24 to 28 October at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune. Before this match, New Zealand suffered a big blow in the form of star batsman Kane Williamson.
Like the first Test of the series played in Bengaluru, Williamson will not be able to play in the second Test to be played in Pune due to his injury. The Kiwi batsman is recovering from his groin injury these days. It was expected that Williamson would be fit for the second Test against India to be played in Pune, but it did not happen. The information about Williamson’s exclusion was given by the New Zealand Cricket Board.
Williamson was injured in the Test series played against Sri Lanka. Williamson will stay in New Zealand and work on achieving full fitness. Head coach Gary Stead said that Williamson is progressing, but is not yet completely fit to return.
May return in the third test
Gary Stead said, “We are monitoring Kane and he is tracking in the right direction, but is not 100 percent fit yet. We hope to see further improvement in the coming days and he will be available for the third Test.” Will stay.”
The coach further said, “We will give them as much time as possible to prepare, but obviously we will continue to take a cautious approach.”
New Zealand has won the first test of the series
It is noteworthy that the New Zealand team has won the first match of the three-match Test series being played against India. The first match of the Test series was played in Bengaluru, in which New Zealand won by 8 wickets. Now the second test of the series will be played in Pune and then the third in Mumbai. Now it will be interesting to see what is the result of the last two matches of the series.
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