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Kiwis take Day One honours
A disciplined bowling effort from the Black Caps complemented by some inept shot selection by middle and lower order saw four wickets falling for 16 runs after the second new ball was taken.Rohit Sharma (35) once again got a start only to throw it away at the end of the day. Ravichandran Ashwin
Kanpur: India began their historic 500th Test match on a disappointing note after they frittered away a solid start to be reduced to 291 for 9 on the opening day of the first cricket Test against New Zealand.The hosts were comfortably placed at 154 for 1 at one stage riding on 112-run second wicket stand between Murali Vijay (65) and Cheteshwar Pujara (62) but lost the plot quite dramatically at the end of the first day.
A disciplined bowling effort from the Black Caps complemented by some inept shot selection by middle and lower order saw four wickets falling for 16 runs after the second new ball was taken.Rohit Sharma (35) once again got a start only to throw it away at the end of the day. Ravichandran Ashwin was well set before being dismissed to a brilliant delivery from Trent Boult.
While left-arm spinner Mitchell Santner (3/77) rocked the top-order, it was Boult, who looked menacing with the second new ball finishing with figures of 3 for 57 in 17 overs. All his wickets came during the last 10 overs of the day.Ravindra Jadeja was batting on 11 at the end of the day with Umesh Yadav (8).
The Green Park track was not a rank turner on the first day itself but it did offer some assistance to the spinners.The Kiwis fielded three spinners – Santner, offie Mark Craig and leg-break bowler Ish Sodhi, who bowled 59 out of the 90 overs.India were comfortably placed at 154 for 1 after losing KL Rahul (32) but lost four wickets in gap of 15 overs, spread over two sessions to get into the backfoot.
Rohit (35) and Ashwin (40) combined for a fighting 52–run stand for the sixth wicket.
In an important phase in his Test career, Rohit was expected to fire and he showed some early promise before trying to chip one off Santner over mid-on but was holed out by Sodhi. The other two Indian batsmen who played poor shots were skipper Virat Kohli (9) who fell for Neil Wagner's short ball mistiming a pull-shot.Boult, in his final spell of the day, got rid of Ashwin wicket-keeper Wriddhiman Saha (0) and Mohd Shami (0) nearly polishing off the Indian tail.
Scoreboard: India 1st innings: KL Rahul c Watling b Santner 32, Murali Vijay c Watling b Sodhi 65, Cheteshwar Pujara c & b Santner 62, Virat Kohli c Sodhi b Wagner 9, Ajinkya Rahane c Latham b Craig 18, Rohit Sharma c Sodhi b Santner 35, R Ashwin c Taylor b Boult 40, Wriddhiman Saha b Boult 0, Ravindra Jadeja not out 16, Mohammed Shami b Boult 0, Umesh Yadav not out 8; Extras: (B-5, LB-1) 6; Total: (For 9 wkts; 90 overs) 291; Fall of wickets 1-42, 2-154, 3-167, 4-185, 5-209, 6-261, 7-262, 8-273, 9-277; Bowling: Trent Boult 17-2-57-3, Neil Wagner 14-3-42-1, Mitchell Santner 20-2-77-3, Mark Craig 24-6-59-1, Ish Sodhi 15-3-50-1.
