Bumrah has bowled six overs in Lincoln, and rain has taken a day of India’s Test preparation
The whole third day of India A’s last four-day game against New Zealand A was washed out, with the hosts 36 for 2 in reply to 464 for 5 and the first Test in Wellington ten days away.
Nov 9, 2026
Jasprit Bumrah has bowled six overs in New Zealand, and on Monday he did not get to add to them. Rain washed out the whole of the third day of India A’s last four-day game against New Zealand A at the Bert Sutcliffe Oval in Lincoln, with the hosts 36 for 2 in reply to 464 for 5 declared.
India’s two-Test series against New Zealand starts at the Basin Reserve in Wellington on 19 November, and this game was meant to give the bowlers in that squad some overs first. One day is left. The first two games were drawn, and this one is heading the same way.
Six tidy overs from Bumrah
Bumrah had not played since the Asian Games in early October. He was rested for the white-ball series against West Indies and New Zealand, trained at home in Ahmedabad and then went through the BCCI’s return-to-play process at the Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru.
He opened with a maiden on Sunday and finished with 6-1-11-0. He moved the ball in the air and off the seam but drifted wide and onto the pads at times, and he did not take a wicket. Six overs is only a loosener for a fast bowler who had gone more than a month without a game, and the washout means he has had no more since.
Prasidh Krishna looked the sharper of the two. In his first game since he hurt his hamstring in the second ODI against West Indies on 30 September, he bowled Rhys Mariu with one that nipped back and trapped Curtis Heaphy lbw for 19, ending with 2 for 12 from five overs. He had been named in India’s ODI squad for this tour but was withdrawn from it to build up his workload.
Ravindra Jadeja has not bowled at all. He arrived after two Ranji Trophy games for Saurashtra, made 25 with the bat on Sunday, and will want overs on Tuesday.
The batters got their time
The batting had already been done. Yashasvi Jaiswal made 102 off 138 balls on the first day and put on 175 for the first wicket with Sai Sudharsan, who batted 255 balls for 88. Captain Dhruv Jurel hit 71, and Tilak Varma (81 not out) and Washington Sundar (50 not out) added an unbroken 114 for the sixth wicket. India A declared as soon as Washington reached his fifty.
Devdutt Padikkal, out for 15 here, still tops the tour’s run list with 326 at 65.20, ahead of Jaiswal on 279.
New Zealand A were down to their part-timers by the end. Jarrod McKay did not bowl on the second day because of a side strain, Danru Ferns hurt his back and left the field mid-over, and nine bowlers were used in all.