30/09Result
2nd Test, New Zealand tour of India at Kolkata, Sep 30-Oct 3 2016
India won by 178 runs
Player of the Match
Wriddhiman Saha
Wriddhiman SahaIndia
30/09Result
2nd Test, New Zealand tour of India at Kolkata, Sep 30-Oct 3 2016
India won by 178 runs
Player of the Match
Wriddhiman Saha
Wriddhiman SahaIndia

Siva: "Similar to first Test, a lead of 50-60 could be very vital, B Kumar and Shami should make use of the pitch and get early wickets, not having KW is a bonus for us."

Rishabh: "@Ash - Despite the lower order contributing, we are ending up with less than 400 in almost every innings. I have always maintained this top and middle order hasn't been performing up to the potential over the past 2 years. Or maybe we are used to seeing the Fab 4 (+ Viru) scoring daddy runs almost everytime." -- The pitches over the last two years have helped the bowlers far more than most of those in the 2000s.

"Gambhir getting ready to take the field," Sidharth Monga says, from Eden Gardens. He'll be subbing for Pujara, who's down with a bit of flu.

Arjuna: "That catch reminded me of Adam Bacher's catch of Sachin Tendulkar. Wow. Shami hs played a similar shot to Sachin too." -- Bacher's was better. He ran to his right, overran the ball, and had to dive backwards and to his left. But yeah, super effort from Henry too.

10.57am Saha and Shami put on 35, and they've taken India to a total they'll welcome. Superb innings from Saha, he's making a habit of these vital lower-order contributions. Frustrating session for New Zealand so far, but they're still very much in the game, and will quickly want to put the lower-order partnerships behind them and get stuck in themselves with the bat.

104.5
W
Boult to Mohammed Shami, OUT, another bouncer, and that's a spectacular catch on the long leg boundary by Henry. Shami hooks it, connects well enough but hits it in the air, and Henry runs around to his right and dives to catch it with both hands

Mohammed Shami c Henry b Boult 14 (27m 14b 3x4 0x6) SR: 100.00

104.4
0
Boult to Mohammed Shami, no run, back of a length on off stump, blocked to cover point
104.3
0
Boult to Mohammed Shami, no run, back of a length on off stump, jumps across and pokes to cover
104.2
0
Boult to Mohammed Shami, no run, that was awkward. Short ball outside leg stump, and Shami opens up to pull and misses, and the ball rises and hits him flush in the grille of his helmet

NZ tour of India 2016-17 News

Success at home

11-0

India's record in the last 12 Tests at home - their best win-loss record in a sequence of 12 consecutive Tests at home.

LBWs galore

13

The previous most LBW dismissals in a Test in India - in the Ahmedabad Test involving SA in 1996-97. Ross Taylor's dismissal in NZ's inns was the 14th of this Test.

A rare effort by Latham

4

No. of visiting openers to hit a fourth-innings fifty at Eden Gardens before Tom Latham. The previous one was by Shahid Afridi in 2005.

Only the 4th

3

No. of India keepers before Wriddhiman Saha to get two fifty-plus scores in a Test. MS Dhoni (4 times), Farokh Engineer and Dilawar Hussain (also at Eden Gardens)

Dominant seventh-wicket

4

No. of century stands India for the 7th wkt in their last 5 Tests in Kolkata, including this. Prev 3: MSD-Laxman 259* v SA, MSD-Laxman 224 v WI, Rohit-Ashwin 280 v WI.

Winning position?

233

Highest 4th inns total by a visiting team at Eden Gardens, by Eng in 1961-62. India's lead has already gone past 250.

Henry's double

6

No. of NZ fast bowlers to take 3 or more wkts in both inns of a Test India, including Matt Henry in this Test. Last to do was Tuffey in Mohali in 2003-04.

Openers fail

2006

Last time Ind openers aggregated fewer runs in both inns of a home Test, than 34 in this Test - 33 runs vs Eng at Wankhede in 2005-06.

Long time ago

2008

Last time Ind fast bowlers took 8 or more wkts in an inns at home, before this - vs Aus in Bangalore (9 wkts).

Pacers' glory

8

No. of wickets by India fast bowlers in the first inns of this Test - joint-most by them in an Eden Gardens Tests. They had taken 8 wkts v Pak 1986-87 and v SA 1996-97.

Jeetan's highest

27*

Previous highest score for Jeetan Patel in Tests, which came in Cape Town in 2005-06. He has gone past that in his first inns after making comeback.

Top-order crumble

15

Runs accumulated by NZ's top-3 in this inns, is the second-lowest for them against India in first inns of Tests. Lowest: 14 runs in Ahmedabad in 2003-04.