Team India faced a 10-wicket loss in the hands of New Zealand during day four of the first Test match at Basin Reserve in Wellington on Monday (February 24).

With this victory, the Blackcaps successfully took a 1-0 lead in the two-match Test series.

Speaking at the post-match presentation, India skipper Virat Kohli expressed his thoughts on how winning the toss was key and claimed that his side was "just not competitive enough” for the win.

“The toss did turn out to be very important. But at the same time, we take a lot of pride in being competitive as a batting unit, and we were just not competitive enough."

“That first innings put us behind and then the lead put us under more pressure. The last three wickets and those 120 runs pushed us out of the game,” he added.

“Anything in the region of even 220-230 would have made it different. As a bowling group, we have been pretty good. The wicket did get better," he added.

The 31-year-old then went on to raise concerns over his young batsmen but claimed that the Indian bowlers could have been more economic at the windy Wellington.

“The bowlers toiled well, as a bowling group we’ve taken pride in being competitive. Till the first seven New Zealand wickets, we were really good," he said.

“We wanted to restrict the lead to under 100, but the last runs from their batsmen made things difficult. The bowlers can still be more disciplined, they were not as happy with their bowling performance,” he added.

This was also India's first loss in the ongoing World Test Championship. Meanwhile, New Zealand registered their 100th Test victory.

As play resumed for day four, the visitors managed to add just 47 more runs to their 144/4 total from yesterday before getting bowled out by a steaming Kiwi pace attack.

Overnight batsmen, Ajinkya Rahane (29) and Hanuma Vihari (15) were sent back to the dressing room early on in the day by Trent Boult and Tim Southee.

Ravichandran Ashwin's stay at the crease was cut short by Southee, who dismissed him on 4.

Rishabh Pant came in next and tried his best to keep the scoreboard ticking with Ishant Sharma. However, Collin de Grandhomme broke the partnership when he dismissed Ishant (12) via LBW, reducing India to 189/8.

Pant's 25-run knock was next brought to an end by Southee. Tim delivered the final blow and picked up Jaspirt Bumrah's wicket as India finished on 191/10 and took an 8-run lead.

New Zealand achieved the score in just 1.4 overs. Tom Latham and Tom Blundell remained unbeaten on 7 and 2 respectively.

Southee was in red-hot form on the day as he took five wickets with fellow pacer Trent Boult bagging four. This was also Southee's tenth five-fors in the longest format for the game.