All of us must have expected that New Zealand will do some kind of fight back in the Test or at least they will try to spend some time in the middle but to our disappointment none of these two things happened.New Zealan lost their first wicket of the day in the form of wicket-keeper batsman van Wyk in just second over of the day.He was trapped in the front of stumps by the Indian speedster Umesh Yadav as he was yet to open his account. He went out for a duck.
After his departure,Bracewell came in to the middle.He tried to build a partnership with overnight batsman James Franklin but didn't get successful as he missed a ball from Pragyan Ojha and got stumped by Dhoni.After this,Franklin didn't get any support from any other batsmen and whole Kiwi team got out for a score of just 159 runs.James Franklin remained not out till the end and he also was the top scorer with his 43 runs. R.Ashwin was the pick of the bolwers for India as he took 6 Kiwi wicktes. India enforce follow-on on the Kiwis and called them to bat again.
New Zealand got off to a bad start again in the second innings as Martin Guptill departed early.He was given lbw out of the bowling of Pragyan Ojha. The situation of Kiwis could have been worse if the rain and bad light hadn't stopped the play early.At te time of play being called of,New Zealand have made 41/1 with Brendon McCullum and Kane Williamson still at the crease.They are still 238 runs behind with 9 wickets in hand.
Brief Scores:-
India: 438 all out (134.3 overs) 1st Innings
C.Pujara: 159 (306) J.Patel: 4/100 (41.0)
M.S.Dhoni: 73 (147) T.Boult: 3/93 (27.0)
New Zealand: 159 all out (61.3 overs) 1st Innings
J.Franklin: 43* (122) R.Ashwin: 6/31 (16.3)
K.Williamson: 32 (92) P.Ojha: 3/44 (21.0)
New Zealand: 41/1 (18.0 overs) 2nd Innings
B.McCullum: 16* (59) P.Ojha: 1/13 (9.0)
M.Guptill: 16 (38)
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