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Kolkata Test: Kiwis squeeze Day 1 honours as India teeter after Pujara and Rahane’s dauntless show
- Updated: October 1, 2016
New Zealand’s Matt Henry(L) celebrates after holding a wicket of India’s Murali Vijay(R) during a initial day of a Kolkata Test. Pic/ AFP
Kolkata: Riding on some trained bowling, New Zealand bowlers limited India to 239/7 on a opening day of a second Test during a iconic Eden Gardens on Friday after a unaffected Cheteshwhar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane had pulled India out of a rut.
Electing to bat after winning a toss, India were off to a pitiable start before Cheteshwar Pujara (87) and Ajinkya Rahane (77) put on a 141-run mount for a fourth wicket to bail a group out of trouble.
At stumps, stumper Wriddhiman Saha (14 not out) and Ravindra Jadeja, who was nonetheless to open his account, were during a crease.
For a visitors, pacer Matt Henry (3/35) and off-spinner Jeetan Patel (2/66) were a wicket-takers along with Trent Boult (1/33) and Neil Wagner (1/37).
India’s vaunted batting line-up failed to redeem from a early blows dealt by New Zealand’s concerted bowling bid and gave a honours of India’s 250th home Test to a visitors.
Barring Cheteshwar Pujara (87) and Ajinkya Rahane (77), none of a batsmen came good after skipper Virat Kohli opted to bat on a relaid representation of a ancestral Eden Gardens stadium.
The Kiwis, who were dealt a blow this morning when regular skipper and tip batsman Kane Williamson was ruled out of compare overdue to illness, showed extensive resilience to put up a excellent initial day show.
India, who will recover a tip mark in ICC rankings if they sign a three-match array in this match, did not make a very good start and mislaid their top-three batsmen even before the measure had overwhelmed 50.
Pujara and Rahane’s stubborn fourth-wicket mount of 141 was the high indicate for India today.
For a in-form Pujara, it was his third half-century from as many innings though a relapse in thoroughness finished his patient innings for 87 that came off 219 deliveries and was studded with 17 hits to a fence.
From being 46/3 in a jumpy initial session, Pujara and Rahane batted with courage and integrity underneath a blazing afternoon feverishness and energy-sapping humidity.
The duo’s mount spanned 3 hours and 9 mins but the Kiwis done an impact in a final event gnawing four wickets.
Pujara was set adult brilliantly by left-arm pacer Neil Wagner, who put a brief cover for him, and a Indian holed out to Martin Guptill.
It was not a good day during his favourite ground for Rohit Sharma (2), who was discharged by Patel. The right-hander also looked to have harm his left shoulder while attempting a single.
For a Kiwis, it was a story of dual quip group as first 24-year-old Henry (3/35), who had transposed their pace spearhead Tim Southee combined utterly a nictitate by stealing both the openers — Shikhar Dhawan (1) and Murali Vijay (9).
Off a second round of his initial over, Henry bowled Dhawan who attempted to cut in an pointed smoothness usually to drag the ball behind to his stumps.
Replacing Lokesh Rahul, Dhawan’s army lasted usually 10 balls with scorecard reading 1/1 in a second over. Vijay also perished to a beauty from a youngster personification usually his fifth Test.
Continuing a singular gaunt patch, skipper Kohli (9) was steadying a boat with a set Pujara, though Trent Boult (1/33) dismissed a skipper. Kohli got carried divided after an artistic cover drive that was cheered by a tiny audience and went for an IPL-like shot chasing a round approach outward a off-stump to be caught brilliantly by Tom Latham.
The exclusion reduction than half an before a lunch break disturbed India’s liberation devise before Pujara and Rahane held firm in a second session.
Pujara, in a midst of a charge over his delayed strike rate, gave an muster of grand batsmanship to finish his 10th half-century in 37 Test matches.
Pujara played in his standard dirty manner, though was also cruel on a lax balls as a wicket eased out underneath a afternoon object and gave small or no squeeze to a New Zealand bowlers.
He reached his half-century by steering Wagner to a blockade past back point, a landmark entrance off 146 balls after a 185-minute stay. But 44 of those runs came pleasantness 11 boundaries.
Rahane also looked plain and carefully assertive as a New Zealand bowlers unsuccessful to get any success in a second session, after winning a first.
In a morning, India struggled to strech 57/3 during lunch with a New Zealand bowlers seizing a beginning on a sharp-witted and grassy lane that gave their pacers, quite Matt Henry, lift from a wicket, and they regularly went tantalisingly tighten to anticipating a batsmen’s outward edge. Both Henry and Trent Boult bowled to a plan, progressing a line on or usually outward a off-stump.
India began on a wrong note after winning a toss, losing openers Shikhar Dhawan (1) and Murali Vijay (9) by a initial drinks interval.
Skipper Virat Kohli (9) also unsuccessful to mangle his Eden Gardens hex in a longest format of a game.
The hastily batsman chased a round far-reaching outward a off branch and finished in a hands of Tom Latham during gully. It was a shining locate as Latham probably plucked a leather from skinny air.
Kohli has now totalled 38 runs in 4 Test innings during a Eden, during a selfish normal of 9.50.
New Zealand got a outrageous jar before a compare as their skipper and batting buttress Kane Williamson was ruled out due to malady with Ross Taylor apropos a substitute captain.
India done dual changes from a group that played a initial Test during Kanpur. Shikhar Dhawan transposed a harmed Lokesh Rahul, while Bhuvneshwar Kumar done it to a final XI in place of Umesh Yadav.
The visitors went with 3 changes. Henry Nicholls, Henry and Jeetan Patel are partial of a group in place of Williamson, Mark Craig and Ish Sodhi.