Christopher Luxon tried his hands on batting, bowling and wicket keeping as well and also took a catch Ajaz Patel while fielding at slips.
Patel’s statement comes as the speculations of the senior Indian batters’ future reached the roof with India taking on New Zealand in the Champions Trophy finale.
Notably, former India captain Virat Kohli finds himself out of the world’s top 20 Test batters for the first time since December 2014 – after nearly 10 years.
Ajaz Patel destroyed the Indian batting lineup as the left-arm spinner took a six-wicket haul, while defending just 146-run total in the Mumbai Test for New Zealand.
Rishabh Pant’s plan backfired as Ajaz Patel went on to smash a four down the ground against Washington Sundar on day one of the second Test in Pune.
Patel’s figures saw him overtake New Zealand great Sir Richard Hadlee’s 9/52 against Australia as the best bowling performance by a Blackcap in Test cricket.
New Zealand’s, Ajaz Patel made history in December, when he picked up 10 wickets in an innings against India at Wankhede.
As luck would have it, it was youngster Rachin Ravindra who was underneath the ball and once he completed the catch, Ajaz had entered into the history books joining Jim Laker and Anil Kumble in the 10-wicket haul in an innings club.
While Ajaz thanked Sehwag for his wishes he even recalled an old incident when he used to be a net bowler and Sehwag had smashed him for huge sixes.
Earlier, Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin had lauded Ajaz Patel’s brilliant performance with a standing ovation.
Ajaz Patel became only the 3rd bowler in Test history to pick all 10 wickets in an innings.
Indian spinner Ashwin took to social media to share a hilarious picture of Axar Patel and Ravindra Jadeja of India and New Zealand.
Ajaz Patel became only 3rd bowler to pick all 10 wickets of a Test innings after Jim Laker and Anil Kumble.
Ajaz etched his name in history books by taking 10 wickets in an innings.
His performance has attracted praise and appreciation from all corners of the world and even the opposition dugout could not help but shower praise on the Kiwi spinner’s performance.
The left-arm spinner ending the first innings with magical bowling figures of 47.5-12-119-10.
Ajaz Patel became the first overseas bowler to take 9 (or) more wickets in a Test innings on Indian soil.