"Kohli's wicket at the end of the day was huge for us": Rachin Ravindra

New Zealands rising star Rachin Ravindra was relieved after his side managed to claim the wicket of Virat Kohli on the final ball of the third day He further hopes that the bowlers will continue to pile up the pressure on IndiaVirat Kohli and Sarfaraz Khan stitched a partnership of 136 runs for the third wicket to guide India to 231 runs at stumps on day threeLater Kohli edged a Glenn Phillips delivery which was caught by Tom Blundell behind the stumpsIts pretty hard to crystalball gaze into the future Its a quality batting lineup on a wicket thats not doing too much so its important for us to hold our lines and lengths and do that for long periods But I think Kohlis wicket at the end was very important Rachin Ravindra told reporters during the postday press meetObviously hes a guy who has scored 9000plus Test runs which is pretty mindblowing but for us it was a huge wicket We know things happen quickly in this part of the world so hopefully we can stick at it and get a few wickets in the morning he addedNew Zealand are still ahead by 125 runs and Rachin Ravindra played his own part in that by cracking his second Test hundred a classy 134Also ReadPCB not willing to move Champions Trophy 2025 final out of LahoreRachin Ravindra also said that pretour training at the Chennai Super Kings academy has helped him vastlyIt was an extremely invaluable experience Before the six Tests in subcontinent I thought maybe it would be the best thing for me to go and have a few days training there A bit more realistic conditions than what wed doctored used wickets in New Zealand which you know wouldnt serve the same purposeThe CSK guys really sorted me out and I was able to have four or five days really good training on red soil and black soil wickets So that helped me shore up game plans and work on a few positions that I wanted to he detailedRachin Ravindra scored his second century in Bengaluru with his first coming during the ODI World Cup 2023 against PakistanBut this time the occasion was dearer to him because of the presence of his family including his father Ravi KrishnamoorthyObviously having my dad in the crowd is massive A lot of family who are watching the game probably at the stadium and then at home on TV I know theyre very very proud and it makes me happy I know dad and mum would be very very proud of thatMe being able to play in their hometown where they grew up is pretty special Like I always say Im fully Kiwi 10037 Kiwi but its nice to have that Indian heritage base here in Bengaluru he notedRavindra was also pleased with his fine effort against the dreaded India spin duo of Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja along with leftarm wrist spinner Kuldeep YadavKuldeep Ashwin Jadeja obviously three guys have taken a lot of Test wickets between them I think its a balance of attack and defence but I think mainly if you can trust your defence you can do that for a long period of timeHaving Timmy Southee out there was great too We were able to build a nice little partnership and frustrate them a little bit But yeah I guess it was just having that positive mindsetI dont know how many balls maybe 50 60 70 balls were sort of ticking along And then once we decided all right lets show some intent here I was able to open up the ground a little bit moreAnd obviously its a ground where you can score quite quickly right Shortish boundaries fast outfield pretty good wicket to bat on he addedWith PTI Inputs