ICC World Test Championship Points Table: New Zealand defeated India by 8 wickets in the first test played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. New Zealand has won a test match on Indian soil after 36 years. With this victory, the Kiwi team has left England behind in the points table of the World Test Championship. India has also suffered losses.
After the victory against India, New Zealand team has come at fourth position with 44.44 points. Whereas England team is at fifth position with 43.06 PCT. India may have lost a few points, but Team India is still at number one in the points table. India now has 68.06 points. Australia, which is at second place, has 62.50 points.
Bengaluru Test Account
The first day of the Bengaluru Test was lost to rain. After this, on the second day Team India was all out for just 46 runs. In response, the Kiwi team scored 402 runs in its first innings and took a huge lead of 356 runs. For New Zealand, Matt Henry opened his bowling first and then Devon Conway played a brilliant inning of 134 runs in batting. After this, Team India batted amazingly in the second innings.
Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 35 runs in India’s second innings. Captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli played half-centuries of 52 and 70 runs respectively. After this, Sarfaraz Khan and Rishabh Pant took command, between whom there was an excellent partnership of 177 runs. Sarfaraz scored 150 runs, while Rishabh Pant returned to the pavilion after scoring 99 runs. After the dismissal of these two, Indian batting collapsed on the fourth day and the innings ended at the score of 462.
In this way, India set a modest target of 107 runs for New Zealand, which the visiting team achieved by losing only two wickets. In the second innings, Will Young returned unbeaten after scoring 48 runs and Rachin Ravindra scored 39 runs. In this way New Zealand defeated India at home after 36 years.
