Twitter Reactions: India in commanding position at stumps on Day 3

India couldn’t have asked for anything better as the hosts ended the day’s play clearly having the upper hand in the match. India ended Day Three at 159 for 1, leading by 215 runs.

The third day witnessed the pitch offering support for spinners, batsmen, and the pacers as well. Both the Indian spinners struck early in the day as they dismissed the well settled Kane Williamson and Tom Latham. Soon after the veteran batsman, Ross Taylor was dismissed for a duck which was a symptom of things to come.

Just after lunch, Ravindra Jadeja unleashed as he bagged 3 wickets in his one over to have the visitors 9 down and thereby he bagged his 5-for. Ravichandran Ashwin claimed the last wicket to close the innings with India having a decent lead of 56.

India’s second innings saw Murali Vijay taking on from where he left in the first innings with his elegant shots. Rahul was playing positively as he has done in the first innings as he played his shots with conviction and didn’t allow the spinners to settle down. However, he was dismissed for 38 by Ish Sodhi.

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India went for Tea at 52 for 1. The Pujara-Vijay duo, who added 112 runs for the second wicket, continued their good run as they took India to 159 without any more damage. When Vijay applied himself at the crease, Pujara dictated terms to the New Zealand spinners as he was having a strike-rate over 100 in the early part of his innings. Vijay on 64 and Pujara on 50 is at the crease.

With 9 wickets in hand and having a lead of 215 runs, India will try to up the ante and post a huge target for the visitors.

Here is how the Twitter reacted as India is in commanding position at stumps on Day 3:

BCCI Wanted Me To Be Part Of #500thTest . I'm Playing Wearing Cheteshwar Pujara's Jersey.#INDvsNZ #INDvNZ pic.twitter.com/sVfowHeydi

— Viru Fan Club (@VirenderrSehwag) September 24, 2016

Sir Ravindra Jadeja Is His Name, Taking Five-fors Is His Game.
Congrats On Your 5th Five-for Sir ji. _/_
Shat Shat Naman#INDvsNZ #INDvNZ

— Viru Fan Club (@VirenderrSehwag) September 24, 2016

Just Removed Sir Ravindra Jadeja From Our WhatsApp Group.

Get Well Soon Bro. #IndvNZ #IndvsNZ #SirJadeja

— Sir Ishant Sharma (@SirIshantSharma) September 24, 2016

After bowling the Kiwi's out for 262, India are at 159/1 at the end of Day 3 with a lead of 215 runs! Top performance! #OrangeArmy #INDvsNZ

— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) September 24, 2016

In last 10 f-c matches he has played in India, @imjadeja has taken 11 five-fors (including six in consecutive innings!)#IndvsNZ #500thTest

— Rajneesh Gupta (@rgcricket) September 24, 2016

Tamil Nadu & Saurashtra combination rocked 1st Test

Batting Stars – Vijay & Pujara
Bowling ? – Ashwin & Jadeja #indvsnz @mohanstatsman

— Sachin Umesh 🙂 (@magicumesh) September 24, 2016

India is smartly using their talented spinners on turners and they opted this strategy since Pakistan demolish Non-Asians with spin.#IndVsNZ

— Husnain Ajmal (@Husnain1256) September 24, 2016

If people can respect Broad & Anderson combo, Guess Ashwin & Jadeja r no different.No need to bring conditions talk #indvsnz @cricketaakash

— Kunal Jain (@mekunaljain) September 24, 2016

#indvsnz Spinners place India on driver's seat as they were leading by over 200 runs now & may put NZ under pressure.

— Totlani Krishan (@kktotlani) September 24, 2016

@mvj888 you're star man! Kind gesture salute given to @cheteshwar1 on his superb 50* knock. Rock solid batting!! #indvsnz #1st #testmatch

— Mohit Rastogi (@MohitRastogi86) September 24, 2016

New Zealand fell from 255 for 5 to 262 all out. #500thTest @BLACKCAPS #IndvsNz

— Mohsin Ahmed (@Ahmed_imMohsin) September 24, 2016

Day3: #indvsnz @imjadeja and @ashwinravi99 started the day off well & @mvj888 and @cheteshwar1 made sure India has the upper hand #500Test

— Sarath Chandran (@ImSarathC) September 24, 2016

New Zealand may have just gifted India the 500th Test after todays performance. Credit to India for coming back and dominating . #indvsnz

— Mikkhail Vaswani (@MikkhailVaswani) September 24, 2016

Intelligent batting by Murali Vijay and @cheteshwar1 on day 3.. typical test players ? ? #indvsnz

— rahul dhawan (@REALRD1992) September 24, 2016

@BLACKCAPS have fallen way behind in this test. Gonna take something special for them to find a a way out of this #cricket #indvsnz

— Sehban Farooqui (@sehbyyy88) September 24, 2016

Pujara Playing at the Strike Rate of 65+, This is called as "Mother of Transformation". #indvsnz

— vinoth (@its_vinoth) September 24, 2016

Thats why I love Test Cricket! Its for the avid cricket lovers and test cricket is the best format!
What turnaround this is! #indvsnz

— Shashank (@Shaks1125) September 24, 2016

Nothing went right for @BLACKCAPS as India dominated Day 3 having a lead of 215 with 9 wickets in hand. #indvsnz pic.twitter.com/k5iSkWzJho

— Cricketz Home (@CricketzHome) September 24, 2016

India will look to get 500 #500thTestMatch #IndvsNz

— Mathan Virat (@imMathan18) September 24, 2016

What India did on #Day3 against New Zealand was what Waugh's and Ponting's Australia did to everyone for over a decade, dominate! #IndvsNZ

— Suyash! (@SuyashBirje) September 24, 2016

https://twitter.com/imRo450/status/779644800127598593

Day 3 belongs to #TeamINDIA , & the Credit goes to @imjadeja @ashwinravi99 @mvj888 @cheteshwar1 for having the massive 215 lead #INDvsNZ

— Shiva Kumar Dev (@Shiva_dev7) September 24, 2016