WTC Final: India Vs New Zealand live score
World Test Championship final reaching to its climax with all the thriller elements. Check the live score here
Updated On - 23 June 2021, 11:20 PM
11:05: Taylor finished the game with a boundary and New Zealand becomes the World Test Champions!
10:57 pm: Williamson completed his half-century with a boundary. NZ just need 6 runs to win
Kane Williamson in action. -Photo: New Zealand cricket
10:53 pm: Kiwis are just 14 runs away from win. Score at 125/2 after 43 overs.
10:29 pm: Nz are in a comfortable position with 104/2 after 38 overs. They need 35 runs to win with 8 wickets in hand. 15 more overs are left for the day
Virat Kohli. -Photo: ICC
10:10 pm: With 19 overs left, NZ need 49 runs to win with 8 wickets in hand
10:05 pm: NZ are at 89/2 after 33 overs, need 50 more runs to win
9:53 pm: After 30 overs; score is at 84/2, NZ need 55 runs to win
Kane Willamson and Ross Taylor. -Photo: ICC
9:31 pm: Ross Taylor is on fire. He didn’t score any runs during the first 16 deliveries he faced, now at 13 off 26 balls. NZ reaches 64/2 and just need 75 runs to win with their most senior batsmen at the crease, Taylor and Williamson.
9:18 pm: By the end of 22nd over, NZ are at 46/2 and need 93 more runs to win
8:57 pm: Ashwin finds a breakthrough again. This time, opener Conway trapped in LBW. He decided not to review. Score at 44/2.
Ashwin celebrates the wicket of Devon Conway. -Photo: BCCI
8:55 pm: After 17 overs, NZ reaches 44/1 and needed 95 runs to win
8:48 pm: Williamson survives a LBW off Ashiwn’s spin. Given out by the umpire, but wickets missing in DRS review and decision changed
8:45 pm: Conway pulls Bumrah to a four, taking the team total to 39/1 after 15 overs.
8:37 pm: Ravichandran Ashwin strikes! India got the wicket of Tom Latham, stumped by Rishabh Pant. NZ are at 33/1 now. Kiwi skipper Kane Williamson comes to the crease.
Ashwin celebrates the wicket of Tom Latham with skipper Virat Kohli. -Photo: BCCI
8:33 pm: Bumrah conceded leg-bye four runs to NZ. They are at 33/0 after 13 overs. NZ need 106 runs to win.
8:17 pm: 45 overs are left in the last session of the game. New Zealand needed 120 runs more to win with 10 wickets in hand. Players are back at the ground for final session.
Chasing a target of 139 runs on the sixth (reserve) day, New Zealand are at 19/0 with one more session to go. NZ openers Tom Latham and Devon Conway are at crease.
India have set New Zealand a target of 139 runs after they were bowled out for just 170 runs in the second innings
India, who started the day at 64/2, lost three wickets — of skipper Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane — in the first session to go to lunch at 130/5.
New Zealand palyers celebrating wicket of Indian batsman. -Photo: ICC
Post lunch, however, they kept losing wickets as the tail failed to wag once again. Rishabh Pant, who was the innings top-scorer with 41 runs, was the last hope for India but he fell to a rash shot as the seventh wicket with the score on 156.
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