1st Test: India v New Zealand at Kanpur on Sep 22-26, 2016

[JJ]

Looks a good wicket

 

[TheParraboy]

Good to have test cricket back

Match starts in under an hour

This is Indias 500th test, sitting on 499. Pakistan are sitting on 399 tests and Zimbabwe on 99 tests

 

[Mr Angry]

India batting first

 

[TheParraboy]

New Zealand : 1 Martin Guptill, 2 Tom Latham, 3 Kane Williamson (capt), 4 Ross Taylor, 5 Luke Ronchi, 6 BJ Watling (wk), 7 Mitchell Santner, 8 Mark Craig, 9 Neil Wagner, 10 Ish Sodhi, 11 Trent Boult

India 1 M Vijay, 2 KL Rahul, 3 Cheteshwar Pujara 4 Virat Kohli (capt). 5 Ajinkya Rahane, 6 Rohit Sharma, 7 R Ashwin, 8 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 9 Ravindra Jadeja, 10 Umesh Yadav, 11 Mohammed Shami

kiwis 5 bowlers and india 4

ronchi playing as specialist bat it appears

 

[Twizzle]

India won the toss and are batting

 

[TheParraboy]

Ind 0/26 - 8 overs

Deck not doing anything from the pacemen

Santner into the attack

Kiwis need a couple of wickets this session

 

[TheParraboy]

Both these indian openers average pretty much on 40.00 in test cricket

Wonder what the average will be after their 13 home tests ?

 

[TheParraboy]

and btw, why is almost every indian playing growing a kholi like beard?

 

[TheParraboy]

Santner breakthrough

Gets Rahul caught behind

1/42

 

[JJ]

Kind of good to see Ronchi there, must have been a temptation to play him as keeper and open with Watling, or even open with Ronchi

They really to love Guptill, I don't understand it

Not a good toss to lose

 

[TheParraboy]

1/61

another wicket before lunch would even the game out here

 

[TheParraboy]

lots of blowflies about


india 1/75

 

[Fufu Andronez]

105/1 at lunch. No issues with the pitch

 

[TheParraboy]

India in full control

1/133

 

[TheParraboy]

Santner strikes again gets Pujara c & b.

2/154

 

[TheParraboy]

Huge wicket, Kholi out, crowd silenced

Warner type shot from Kholi from Wagner

3/167

 

[Twizzle]

5/226

bit of a fight back from the Kiwis

 

[vvvrulz]

Rohit the great throws his wicket away, then Boult bowls Saha with a ripper

263-7

 

[TheParraboy]

7/264

NZ on top for mine

 

[vvvrulz]

7/264

NZ on top for mine

We still have to bat mate, we're still one true class batsman short imo