Focus back on Bhuvi as India fail to make early breakthroughs

22 Jun, 2021

Southampton, June 22 (IANS) Though Indian bowlers made a strong comeback and ran through the New Zealand middle-order on the fifth day of the World Test Championship (WTC) final on Tuesday, their failure to get early breakthroughs and extract seam movement brought forth the need to have pace bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar.

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