{"id":2982,"date":"2016-10-11T12:11:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T12:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=2982"},"modified":"2016-10-11T12:11:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T12:11:44","slug":"india-set-nz-475-run-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2016\/10\/11\/india-set-nz-475-run-target\/","title":{"rendered":"India set NZ 475-run target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cheteshwar Pujara\u2019s century helped India set New Zealand a daunting target of 475 in the third and final Test in Indore on Tuesday, after declaring their second innings on 216\/3 on day four.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-quote fb_iframe_widget\">India, 18 for no loss overnight, rode on Pujara\u2019s unbeaten 101 to stretch their lead until the first hour of the afternoon session as they look to complete a whitewash after enjoying a 2-0 lead.<\/div>\n<p>Pujara, who recorded his eight Test hundred, put on 76 runs for the second wicket with opener Gautam Gambhir as the duo dominated the New Zealand bowling.<\/p>\n<p>Gambhir, who retired hurt on Monday after aggravating his shoulder injury while diving desperately to avoid a run out, returned to bat after Murali Vijay\u2019s departure for 19.<\/p>\n<p>Gambhir, who was recalled to the Indian team after a two-year gap, scored 50 off 56 balls before giving away a catch to Martin Guptill at cover off Jeetan Patel.<\/p>\n<p>Patel also got skipper Virat Kohli trapped lbw for 17, but India\u2019s brisk scoring ensured the visitors have a mountain to climb at India\u2019s newest Test venue &#8211; Indore\u2019s Holkar Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheteshwar Pujara&rsquo;s century helped India set New Zealand a daunting target of 475 in the third and final Test in Indore on Tuesday, after declaring their second innings on 216\/3 on day four. India, 18 for no loss overnight, rode on Pujara&rsquo;s unbeaten 101 to stretch their lead until the first hour of the afternoon session as they look to complete a whitewash after enjoying a 2-0 lead. Pujara, who recorded his eight Test hundred, put on 76 runs for the second wicket with opener Gautam Gambhir as the duo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}