In the second innings of the Kanpur Test match, Indian wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha played a valuable innings for the team and scored a half-century on the crucial occasion. The team needed this innings a lot and with this innings of Saha, Team India scored a good score in the second innings. However, apart from Saha, Shreyas Iyer also batted brilliantly in the second innings and scored 65 runs. The biggest feature of this innings of Saha was that he had a stiffness in his neck and he was in trouble, yet played for the country and handled the team. On the basis of the innings of Saha and Shreyas, India took a 283-run lead in the second innings and gave New Zealand a target of 284 runs to win.
Saha played the best innings of Test against New Zealand-
Wriddhiman Saha scored an unbeaten 61 off 126 balls in the second innings of the Kanpur Test with the help of one six and two fours. This proved to be Saha’s best innings against New Zealand in Test cricket so far. Saha had played his best innings against New Zealand in 2016 in an unbeaten 58 in Kolkata. After this, he now played an unbeaten 61 against the Kiwi team. At the same time, after four years in Test cricket, Saha scored a half-century. Before the Kanpur Test match, he scored his last Test fifty in the year 2017 against Sri Lanka in Colombo.
Talking about Saha’s Test career, he has played 39 Test matches for India in which he has scored 1313 runs at an average of 29.84, including 3 centuries. Saha’s best score is 117 runs in the Test format, while he has taken 92 catches behind the wicket and has stumped 11 batsmen. Saha made his Test debut in 2010 against South Africa in Nagpur.