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PremiumIndia Vs New Zealand LIVE score: Trailing by 125 runs, India posted 231/3 runs at Stumps on DAY 3 of first Test against New Zealand in Bengaluru's M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Thursday.
After losing Yashasvi Jaiswal (35) and Rohit Sharma (52), Virat Kohli and Sarfaraz Khan posted a partnership of 136 runs off 163 balls.
However, Virat Kohli (70) was caught by Blundell on the last delivery of 49th over, bowled by Glenn Phillips. Sarfaraz was still batting at 70 when Stumps was declared for DAY 3.
For New Zealand, Ajaz Patel took 2 wickets, while Glenn Phillips picked up one wicket.
On DAY 3, Kohli completed his 9000 runs in Test cricket in 197 innings. He has a batting average of 48 and has the highest Test score of unbeaten 254. Also, he has 29 centuries in his name.
Kohli is the 4th Indian players to complete 9000, after Sachin Tendulkar (15921), Rahul Dravid (13265) and Sunil Gavaskar (10122). But slowest to reach the milestone in terms of innings taken (197).
Earlier on Day 3 of the first Test, New Zealand batters were all out at 402 and were leading by 356 runs. Rachin Ravindra scored a century (134), supported by Devon Conway's 99 and Tim Southee's 65 runs.
While India's Ravindra Jadeja and Kuldeep Yadav took three wickets each. Apart from this, Mohammed Siraj picked up 2 wickets, both Jasprit Bumrah and Ravichandran Ashwin clinched one each.
Team India were off to a flying start on Day 3 of the Test, getting the two quick wickets of Daryl Mitchell and Tom Blundell inside the first 10 overs. Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj were the two wicket takers this morning, continuing to build pressure on the Kiwis.
Rohit Sharma's India will be looking to bounce back today after being dismissed for 46 in the first innings. At 180/3, New Zealand have a commanding 134-run lead and will be keen to keep the momentum going in their favour.
India's three spinners, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja, took a wicket apiece on day two, but couldn't expose the fault lines in New Zealand's batting further.
New Zealand, on the other hand, got their innings off to a great start thanks to a 91-run knock from Devon Conway, who ensured there was no collapse like there was in India's innings. Meanwhile, Rachin Ravindra (22) and Daryl Mitchel (14) are now batting for the Kiwis at the M Chinnaswamy stadium in a bid to take the match further for their side.
India, reduced to their third lowest total in Test cricket after 42 all out at Lords in 1974 and 36 all out against Australia in Adelaide, will be keen to get past this Kiwi line-up as quickly as possible to post a big total and demonstrate their continued status as a world-class side.
India playing XI
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma (C), Virat Kohli, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (WK), KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj
New Zealand playing XI
Tom Latham (C), Devon Conway, Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Blundell (WK), Glenn Phillips, Matt Henry, Tim Southee, Ajaz Patel, Will O'Rourke.
India vs New Zealand Live: Speaking to cricbuzz, former Indian cricketer Manoj Tiwari said, “You cannot remove Shubman Gill as of now because he scored a hundred in the previous series and he also has a very good record. When he recovers from his stiff neck, he will become an automatic choice. KL Rahul will be the one under most pressure,"
"Even if Rahul doesn't score runs in the next two Tests, he will still get preference for the initial Tests in Australia. But, if he doesn't perform there as well, then Sarfaraz could come into the playing XI. I feel Sarfaraz should also get a fair opportunity. It is good that the players who are in the reserves are performing. There will definitely be pressure on some players in the playing XI," the former cricketer added
India vs New Zealand Live: Around 30 minutes are left for the start of Day's play at the M Chinnaswamy stadium in Benglauru. With India trailing by 125 runs and a new batter at the crase, the Men in Blue would be hoping to solidity this innings a lit bit before going into attack mode.
India vs New Zealand Live: Speaking at a press conference after Day 3 of the match, Kuldeep said, "We all enjoy watching him bat. After scoring a double century in the Irani Cup, hopefully, he will do the same here. He has a unique style and is particularly adept against spinners. His counter-attack against Ajaz Patel forced them to switch to pacers. I really appreciate his technique and find it entertaining to watch,"
India vs New Zealand Live: Currently trailing by 125 runs in the Test match, and with 7 wickets still to chase, Team India will be looking to post a mammoth total and set New Zealand a score of over 150 to chase in the 2nd innings. However, with Rishabh Pant recovering from injury and the performance of the Indian batsmen in the 1st innings, the Men in Blue face an uphill task. Should they manage to pull it off, it would be one of the most iconic moments in Indian cricket, rivalling the famous Test victory at the Gabba.
India vs New Zealand Live: Speaking at the Security Now 2024 confrence, Laxman said (as quoted by PTI), "For leaders, it's humanly impossible not to make mistakes. We won the toss and we elected to bat first and it was counterproductive (because) we were bowled out for 46,"
"Who went to the press conference? It was Rohit Sharma. He accepted that 'yes, I misread the wicket'. Leaders take that ownership of (their) decisions…It's not necessary that every time the decisions are right, but you take the ownership and then whenever the team doesn't do well, you go and face the flak. Whenever the team does well, you promote the guy who actually requires that recognition and that limelight," the former Indian cricketer added
India vs New Zealand Live: Speaking after the day's play on Friday, Ravindra said, “It's pretty hard to crystal-ball gaze into the future. It's a quality batting line-up on a wicket that's not doing too much, so it's important for us to hold our lines and lengths and do that for long periods. But I think Kohli's wicket at the end was very important,"
"Obviously, he's a guy who has scored 9,000-plus Test runs, which is pretty mind-blowing, but for us it was a huge wicket. We know things happen quickly in this part of the world, so, hopefully, we can stick at it and get a few wickets in the morning," Ravindra added
Trailing by 125 runs, India posted 231/3 runs at Stumps on DAY 3 of first Test against New Zealand in Bengaluru's M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Thursday.
After losing Yashasvi Jaiswal (35) and Rohit Sharma (52), Virat Kohli and Sarfaraz Khan posted a partnership of 136 runs off 163 balls.
However, Virat Kohli (70) was caught by Blundell on the last delivery of 49th over, bowled by Glenn Phillips. Sarfaraz was still batting at 70 when Stumps was declared for DAY 3.
For New Zealand, Ajaz Patel took 2 wickets, while Glenn Phillips picked up one wicket.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Glenn Phillips continues with the bowling attack. Wicket!! Kohli (70) OUT as gets caught by Blundell on the last delivery. India score 231/3 in 49 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Glenn Phillips continues with the bowling attack. India score 231/2 in 49 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, William ORourke continues with the bowling attack. India score 228/2 in 48 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Glenn Phillips continues with the bowling attack. India score 228/2 in 47 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, William ORourke continues with the bowling attack. India score 228/2 in 46 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Glenn Phillips continues with the bowling attack. Sarfaraz hits a FOUR to deep extra cover on 5th delivery. India score 227/2 in 45 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, William ORourke continues with the bowling attack. Kohli slams a boundary on last delivery. India score 220/2 in 44 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Glenn Phillips continues with the bowling attack. Kohli slams consecutive boundaries on second and third deliveries. India score 214/2 in 43 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, William ORourke continues with the bowling attack. 200-up for India. India score 204/2 in 42 overs.
9000 runs up for Kohli in Test cricket in 197 innings. He has a batting average of 48 and has the highest Test score of unbeaten 254. Also, he has 29 centuries in his name.
Kohli is the 4th Indian players to complete 9000, after Sachin Tendulkar (15921), Rahul Dravid (13265) and Sunil Gavaskar (10122). But slowest to reach the milestone in terms of innings taken (197).
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Glenn Phillips continues with the bowling attack. India score 199/2 in 41 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Matt Henry continues with the bowling attack. India score 197/2 in 40 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Glenn Phillips continues with the bowling attack. 100-runs partnership up in 101 deliveries. This is the first century partnership for the 3rd wicket for India against New Zealand since 2014. India score 197/2 in 39 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Matt Henry continues with the bowling attack. Half-century for Kohli in 70 deliveries. India score 191/2 in 38 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Glenn Phillips continues with the bowling attack. Kohli slams a FOUR outside off stump on the 2nd delivery. India score 188/2 in 37 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Matt Henry continues with the bowling attack. Half-Century for Sarfaraz India score 182/2 in 36 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Tim Southee continues with the bowling attack. Sarfaraz hits a FOUR to third man on the second delivery. India score 179/2 in 35 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Matt Henry continues with the bowling attack. India score 174/2 in 34 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Tim Southee continues with the bowling attack. India score 172/2 in 33 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Ajaz Patel continues with the bowling attack. Sarfaraz slams consecutive SIXes on the 4th and 5th deliveries. India score 167/2 in 32 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Tim Southee continues with the bowling attack. India score 153/2 in 31 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Ajaz Patel continues with the bowling attack. Kohli smashes a SIX to long-off on the delivery, followed by a boundary. He ends the over with a boundary and 150-up for India. India score 152/2 in 30 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Tim Southee continues with the bowling attack. Sarfaraz smashes a FOUR to backward square leg on the 5th delivery. India score 138/2 in 29 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Ajaz Patel continues with the bowling attack. India score 134/2 in 28 overs
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, William ORourke continues with the bowling attack. India score 32/2 in 27 overs.
Sarfaraz hits a SIX to deep backward point on the 4th delivery. on the third delivery, followed by a boundary on the last delivery.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Ajaz Patel continues with the bowling attack. India score 121/2 in 26 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, William ORourke continues with the bowling attack. Virat uses his signature shot for a FOUR to extra cover on the first delivery, followed by Sarfaraz's boundary on the third delivery. India score 116/2 in 25 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Ajaz Patel continues with the bowling attack. Sarfaraz hits a FOUR to deep mid-wicket on the third delivery and with this, 100-up for India. After this, he slammed another boundary. India score 107/2 in 24 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Sarfaraz Khan and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, William ORourke continues with the bowling attack. India score 98/2 in 23 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: India's Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Ajaz Patel continues with the bowling attack. Kohli slams a FOUR away into the gap at point on the first delivery. Wicket!! Rohit Sharma BOWLED on the fifth delivery. Sarfaraz Khan IN. India score 95/2 in 22 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: Trailing by 282 runs, India's Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Matt Henry continues with the bowling attack. Rohit slams a FOUR to sweeper cover on the third delivery, followed by a SIX to deep mid-wicket via his favourite pull shot. He ends the over with a boundary to backward square leg. With this, Rohit completes his half-century in 59 deliveries. India at 90/1 in 21 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: Trailing by 282 runs, India's Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Ajaz Patel continues with the bowling attack. India at 74/1 in 20 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: Trailing by 284 runs, India's Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are on the crease. For New Zealand, Matt Henry continues with the bowling attack. India at 74/1 in 19 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: Trailing by 284 runs, India's Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal are on the crease. For New Zealand, Ajaz Patel continues with the bowling attack. Wicket!!Yashasvi (35) OUT on the first delivery as he gets stumped by Blundell. Virat Kohli IN. India at 72/1 in 18 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: Trailing by 299 runs after TEA, India's Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal are on the crease. For New Zealand, Matt Henry continues with the bowling attack. Rohit slams consecutive FOURs on the 2nd and 4th deliveries. IND at 72/0 in 17 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: Trailing by 299 runs after TEA, India's Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal are on the crease. For New Zealand, Ajaz Patel continues with the bowling attack. Jaiswal slams a FOUR on the 5th delivery. IND at 64/0 in 16 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: Trailing by 299 now, Indian batters Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal are on the crease and have scored 57/0 in 15 overs. With India happy with the start, they have a huge sore to overtake and then give a target for the guests to chase in the first Test at Bengaluru's Chinnaswamy Stadium.
India vs New Zealand Live: Trailing by 356 runs, India's Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal are on the crease. For New Zealand, Glenn Phillips continues with the bowling attack. IND at 57/0 in 15 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: Trailing by 356 runs, India's Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal are on the crease. For New Zealand, Ajaz Patel continues with the bowling attack. IND at 55/0 in 14 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: Trailing by 356 runs, India's Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal are on the crease. For Ne Zealand, William ORourke continues with the bowling attack. Jaiswal slams a boundary on the second delivery and 50-up for India. IND at 51/0 in 13 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: Trailing by 356 runs, India's Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal are on the crease. For New Zealand, Ajaz Patel continues with the bowling attack. Jaiswal slams a boundary on the 4th delivery IND at 47/0 in 12 overs.
India vs New Zealand Live: A steady start by Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal, ensuring that there have been no hasty decisions. The duo are trying to be mindful of the pitch conditions while also punishing the bad deliveries. With Rishabh Pant already facing an injury, there is added responsibility on the two Indian openers.
India vs New Zealand Live: A quiet start to the Indian innings, with both Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal getting used to the conditions. The two Indian openers will have a massive job to do if India are to win this match or even get to a position of draw.
India vs New Zealand Live: India just need 1 more wicket to end this Kiwi innings. With Rachin Ravindra (135) still at the crease, the Kiwis would want to take their lead to over 400 runs and take this game away from India's hands all together.
