He’d switch to a straighter release from close to the stumps to target the area around off-stump. He’d go wide to get a steep angle into the right-handers, and turn it sharply across them from there. Not only did Ajaz vary his pace, he also used the crease well. The second one was top-edged and hung in the air for a while, but fell well short of deep backward square-leg. A surprised Agarwal ended up hitting the first one to the bowler. Twice, the ball gripped, spun and kicked at him. Off the last two balls of that over, Mayank Agarwal – who ended the day unbeaten on 120 – thought he had the length to pull. He was brought on as early as the eighth. The signs were there in Ajaz’s very first over. “It is kind of what dreams are made of – to be here and to go out there and pick up four wickets on the first day is pretty special,” Ajaz said. Dream stuff in the city of dreams, which is also the city of his birth. After he claimed Shreyas Iyer with a bat-pad catch to the ’keeper, they read 21-9-46-4. Umpire Anil Chaudhary felt Kohli was gone leg-before, and there was nothing conclusive for third umpire Virender Sharma to rule otherwise.Īt that stage, Ajaz’s figures were an unreal 12-7-14-3. One could say it was pad-bat-pad, one could say it was bat-pad.
Twice in succession, Ajaz had been denied, and twice in succession, he had had his man next ball.įour deliveries later, Ajaz trapped Kohli in front on the forward defensive. The ball spun sharply past his legs and bat to strike the stumps. He skipped out, looking to clip only his fifth delivery against the turn through midwicket. New Zealand reviewed only for the ball-tracker to say it was headed just past leg stump. First ball of his next over, he did Pujara in on the forward press with one that carried on with the incoming angle.
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