India's head coach Gautam Gambhir and the captain Rohit Sharma inspected the Kanpur track very closely on their first day of training session before the second Test against Bangladesh. Both of them wanted to know how the track would behave as the game approached its end. The second Test starts on Friday, September 27, and India goes into the match a 1-0 lead. Having crushed their visitors by 280 runs in the first Test, played at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, India would want to utterly decimate the visitors to top up their very impressive home record. In the last 23 Test matches at Green Park, India has won seven, lost three, and drawn 13. India Last Hosted a Test at Kanpur in 2021 Against New Zealand Their last Test match in Kanpur was against New Zealand back in 2021, and that proved to be a cracking game which went on to an exciting draw. In that match, India, led by Ajinkya Rahane since Virat Kohli was on a break, won the toss and chose to bat first. Shreyas Iyer opened up for the batting with a debut century when he hit 105 while Ravindra Jadeja scored 50 to ensure India, who lost early wicket Mayank Agarwal for just 13 runs, consolidated well with a 61 run partnership between Shubman Gill and Cheteshwar Pujara. Useful 38 runs were added by Ravichandran Ashwin as well. Also Read | SA20 Season 3 Auction: Players, Teams, and Purse Details Revealed Tim Southee and Kyle Jamieson were among the best for New Zealand. Southee got five as he took full advantage of an overcast day, while Jamieson claimed three. In response, New Zealand started well with openers Will Young and Tom Latham adding a good 151-run stand. Young scored 89, and Latham had 95. But from there on till the dismissal of Young by Ashwin and that of Latham by Axar Patel, New Zealand had almost shut shop, according to the requirements of the situation. Axar took five, and Ashwin contributed with three. New Zealand was bowled out for 296, leaving India with a lead of 49 runs. India could not start the second innings well with losses of wickets. The team was reduced to 51 for 5. However, crucial stands from Iyer (65) and Wriddhiman Saha (61*) made sure the final total for India read 234 for 7. India declared and gave New Zealand a target of 284 runs. The chase was close for New Zealand, and they had to finally finish at 155 for 9. It was one of those real cliff-hanger finishes, where debutant Rachin Ravindra and Ajaz Patel just managed to hang on to an exciting draw. The match concluded eight minutes before the scheduled end due to bad light.