India are bowled out for their third-lowest total in a Test innings after chooseing to bat first in overcast Bengaluru.
India were bowled out for their lowest total in a home Test suit as they crumbled to 46 all out in the first innings of their first Test agetst New Zealand in Bengaluru.
The arranges struggled agetst the pace and shiftment of New Zealand’s speedy bowlers in overcast conditions at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium after India’s captain Rohit Sharma chooseed to bat first on Thursday.
The first day of the Test was washed out by rain, and cdeafenings hovered above the ground when India’s uncoverers Rohit and Yashasvi Jaiswal went out to bat.
Rohit was the first batter to descfinish after he was bowled out for two runs by Tim Southee in the seventh over and triggered an Indian collapse that was alertly cmitigateed by a 20-run partnership between Jaiswal and wicketpersister Rishabh Pant.
Pant was the top run scorer with 20 off 49 balls and Jaiswal scored 13 off 63.
Star Indian batter Virat Kohli was one of the five Indian top and middle-order batters disthink abouted without scoring a run.
Fast bowlers Matt Henry and William O’Rourke picked up the other nine Indian wickets, with Henry getting 5-15 in his 13.2 overs.
O’Rourke, who took the final Indian wicket, finished the innings with figures of 4-22 in his 12 overs, which integrated six mhelpens.
This was India’s third-lowest score in a Test innings and the 18th lowest by a Test nation. New Zealand helderly the ignominious write down of scoring the lowest total in Test history, when they were disthink abouted on 26 runs agetst England in 1955.
