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New Zealand have won the toss and have opted to bat

out


Teams:

New Zealand (Playing XI): Tom Latham(c), Devon Conway, Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Blundell(w), Glenn Phillips, Ish Sodhi, Matt Henry, Ajaz Patel, William ORourke


India (Playing XI):

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), Sarfaraz Khan, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj


Bumrah is not well, Siraj comes in for him.


Mitch Santner has got a little bit of a side strain.

Matt Henry is fit and he comes in for Tim Southee.

NZ 7/0 (2)

Day 1: 1st Session

Washington Sundar bowls more than 50% of his victims and mostly from turn!

In reply to Brerzerk

The introduction of spin and particularly Washington Sundar saw India getting back into the contest - he had taken 11 in Pune and he took the same form going into Mumbai. Two corkers to get rid of Latham and Ravindra as the visitors slipped from 59 for 1 to 72 for 3.

Gill & Shiv was building a nice partnership, but, then Shiv fired a cross-bat at the spinner...

Come in Boll weevil, come in!

Day 1: Stumps

NZ 235

Will Young 71[138
Daryl Mitchell 82[129

Washington Sundar 18.4 2 81 4
Ravindra Jadeja 22 1 65 5

IND 86/4 (19) CRR: 4.53

Shubman Gill 31*[38
Rishabh Pant 1*[1

India trail by 149 runs

In reply to Narper

out Kohli Run Out!! A direct hit at the bowler's end, Kohli put in the dive, but New Zealand are celebrating - this could be disaster for India and he's indeed short, by a couple of yards. Kohli is OUT and India finds themselves four down in no time. It was his call and it was a poor call, not sure if he needed to do that with stumps so close, Gambhir wears a stoic look on his face. 'India committing harakiri in the last 10 minutes', says Ravi Shastri on air. First Jaiswal, then Siraj and now Kohli - all gone in no time.

Kiwi frontline batters all seem to execute the reverse sweep extremely well. Slog
Sweep too. All variations of the sweep
Shot actually.

Good test cricket low-scoring or not

In reply to Brerzerk

IND 263

NZ 235

19/1 (7)


Day 2: 2nd Session - New Zealand trail by 9 runs

Stumps
Kiwis 235 and 171/9
India 263

NZ lead by 143