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

END OF OVER:
53 | 8 Runs 1 Wkt | NZ: 204/10

  • Trent Boult6 (8b)
  • Mohammed Shami18-1-70-3
  • Ravichandran Ashwin8-3-33-1

Nes: "Can't remember the last time Indian pacers got 8 wickets in the sub-continent." -- SSC, Colombo, last year.

Shikhar Dhawan had a dazzling Test debut but since then it has been a real struggle for him in home Tests.

Sathya Narayana: "Happy to see fast bowlers bowling more overs than spinners in the subcontinent that and too in India."

10.55am Entertaining session so far, and New Zealand have clawed back just a little, via that partnership between Watling and Jeetan Patel. India have a lead of 112. They might have to shuffle their batting order a bit because I'm not sure Pujara can bat at No. 3. He was off the field for a long time, and hadn't suffered an "external injury".

52.6
W
Mohammed Shami to Wagner, OUT, gone! The question was whether it pitched in line. He's bowling over the wicket to a left-hander, but it's fairly full. Stays in the crease and tries to punch down the ground, bat comes down at an angle, going towards wide mid-on. Ball misses his inside edge and hits his front pad. Ball pitched just on the edge of a leg-stump line. Not sure half of the ball was in line

N Wagner lbw b Mohammed Shami 10 (27m 18b 0x4 1x6) SR: 55.55

52.5
0
Mohammed Shami to Wagner, no run, very full, almost in the blockhole, blocked to mid-off
52.4
0
Mohammed Shami to Wagner, no run, ooh, good ball, swings from leg to off to the left-hander, but he watches it well and defends to mid-off even though he doesn't move his feet much at all
52.3
6
Mohammed Shami to Wagner, SIX, and that's smashed. He played a few shots like this off Steyn and Rabada recently. Now he pulls the short ball up and over the square leg boundary. Just opened up a little and swivelled through the hips

Shami goes over the wicket now.

52.2
2
Mohammed Shami to Wagner, 2 runs, length ball angling into the pads, shows the full face and gets it wide of midwicket
52.1
0
Mohammed Shami to Wagner, no run, length ball wide of off. Wagner stands and swishes his bat through a whippy arc to try and hit it through point. Doesn't connect

END OF OVER:
52 | 9 Runs | NZ: 196/9

  • Trent Boult6 (8b)
  • Neil Wagner2 (12b)
  • Ravichandran Ashwin8-3-33-1
  • Mohammed Shami17-1-62-2
51.6
0
Ashwin to Boult, no run, tossed up outside off, blocked into the cover point region
51.5
2b
Ashwin to Boult, 2 byes, strange defensive shot, bat face opening into the off side as this dips, turns a long way past the inside edge, and beats Saha with bounce as well. Ah, it hit the back thigh, but the umpires didn't spot it
51.4
6
Ashwin to Boult, SIX, bam! Tossed up outside off, and Boult slog-sweeps it over the wide long-on boundary. Barely had any sort of stability with his base, and his right leg swung around as he hit it, but he connected so sweetly
51.3
0
Ashwin to Boult, no run, nice flight outside off, a bit of drift. But too full, and Boult blocks into the off side
51.2
1
Ashwin to Wagner, 1 run, a bit of air, and he gets forward to lap-sweep towards long leg, didn't really time it
51.1
0
Ashwin to Wagner, no run, length ball on off stump, sliding on with the angle. Stays back to block

END OF OVER:
51 | (wicket maiden) | NZ: 187/9

  • Trent Boult0 (4b)
  • Neil Wagner1 (10b)
  • Mohammed Shami17-1-62-2
  • Ravichandran Ashwin7-3-26-1
50.6
0
Mohammed Shami to Boult, no run, length ball swerving in, defended from the crease into the leg side
50.5
0
Mohammed Shami to Boult, no run, very full, swinging a long way down the leg side
50.4
0
Mohammed Shami to Boult, no run, short ball rising towards ribcage. Fends it in the air, on the on side, but there's no short leg. Only a short midwicket and it falls well short
50.3
0
Mohammed Shami to Boult, no run, back of a length outside off, pokes at it and gets beaten. No feet from Boult

As Monga observes from the ground, reverse-swing has begun almost as soon as the ball-change happened, just as in Kanpur.

50.2
W
Mohammed Shami to Watling, OUT, gone! A bit of reverse into Watling, quite full, and the best way to play these balls is to get a big stride forward so that even if it swings in and beats your inside edge, you're hit on the pad outside the line of off stump. Watling didn't do that. His front leg was planted a short way forward, in front of middle stump, and he stood no chance

BJ Watling lbw b Mohammed Shami 25 (108m 67b 3x4 0x6) SR: 37.31

50.1
0
Mohammed Shami to Watling, no run, looks for the cut, beaten

Sidharth Monga sympathises with Patel. "Patel stood no chance... that was an off break that almost turned the other way after pitching. If you have committed to an attacking shot - and there is nothing wrong in that because that is what had worked for him so far - you are dead."

END OF OVER:
50 | (maiden) | NZ: 187/8

  • Neil Wagner1 (10b)
  • BJ Watling25 (65b)
  • Ravichandran Ashwin7-3-26-1
  • Mohammed Shami16-0-62-1
49.6
0
Ashwin to Wagner, no run, a touch shorter, goes on the back foot to defend
49.5
0
Ashwin to Wagner, no run, length ball on middle and off, blocked back

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.