India vs New Zealand 1st Test: New Zealand won the Bangalore Test against India by 8 wickets. Rachin Ravindra was chosen player of the match for this match. Rachin scored a century in New Zealand’s first innings. He had scored 134 runs. Scored 39 unbeaten runs in the second innings. An important reason behind India’s defeat was its batting. In the first innings, Team India was limited to a score of 46 runs. Along with this, the toss also proved important.
Actually, captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bat first. During this period, Team India collapsed on the score of 46 runs in the first innings. Rohit himself told after the inning that he made a mistake in understanding the pitch. This became an important reason for India’s defeat. If Team India had bowled first then the result could have been different. However, India came back less in the second innings and scored 462 runs. But this could not lead to victory.
Five Indian players were out on zero in the first innings –
Five players of Team India were out on zero in the first innings. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rohit had come to open. During this, Rohit was out after scoring 2 runs and Yashasvi was out after scoring 13 runs. After this Virat Kohli and Sarfaraz Khan were out on zero. KL Rahul, Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja also could not open their accounts.
Team India’s wickets fell early on the fourth day –
Sarfaraz Khan played a strong inning of 150 runs on the fourth day of the Bangalore Test. Rishabh Pant scored 99 runs. A strong partnership was formed between these two. But the game changed after the arrival of the new ball. As long as the old ball was in play, runs were being scored. But as soon as the new ball arrived, the runs stopped and wickets also fell quickly.
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