India vs New Zealand 1st Test: Match: Thanks to the lethal bowling of Matt Henry and William O’Rourke, New Zealand bowled out Team India for just 46 runs in the first Test being played in Bengaluru. This is India’s lowest score in Test cricket on home soil. Rishabh Pant scored the maximum 20 runs for Team India.
In front of Matt Henry 5 wickets and William O’Rook 4 wickets, the Indian batsmen did not work and all the stars were out on the lines of ‘Tu Chal Main Aaya’. In front of the lethal bowling of New Zealand, 5 players of India were out for zero. The first day of this test was washed away in rain. Even after this, captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bat first, which proved to be completely wrong.
Kohli-Rohit, Sarfaraz-Rahul, Pant-Jadeja-Ashwin all failed
Team India, who came to bat first after winning the toss, had a very bad start. Captain Rohit Sharma was bowled out on the total score of 9. Rohit was dismissed by Tim Southee. After this, William O’Rook sent Virat Kohli back to the pavilion on zero. Then in the match Henry made Sarfaraz Khan go. Sarfaraz also could not open an account.
After the fall of three wickets for 10 runs, everyone had expectations from Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rishabh Pant. But both of them could not last long in front of the Kiwi bowlers. There was a partnership of 21 runs between the two, but O’Rook dismissed Jaiswal on the total score of 31. He could score only 13 runs with the help of one four.
After Jaiswal’s dismissal, KL Rahul came to the crease. But Rahul also returned to the pavilion after playing six balls without opening his account. Then Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin were also out on zero. After this Jasprit Bumrah returned to the pavilion after scoring one run.
India had lost 9 wickets for just 40 runs. It seemed that Team India would have the second lowest score today, but Mohammad Siraj and Kuldeep Yadav faced the Kiwi bowlers for some time, but both of them could add only 6 more. In this way Team India collapsed for 46 runs.
