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

Kevin: "India's batting lineup now features all but three players averaging 30 + (only Jadeja, Bhuvi, and Shami are below). In comparison, NZ has 7 players with a <30 average. It will take something magical - or severe weather - for NZ to avoid a loss!"

Smartprasath: "Saha increase his average from 26.00 to 31.09 thanks to his two unbeaten half centuries.. "

Lakwin: "I think probably having K Williamson today would'ave made a significant difference for Nz. Having said that, a great chance for Nicholls to step up and play a career defining innings !"

10.16am Saha finishes not out on 58, Wagner misses out on the fastest-to-100 record. New Zealand need 376 to win this Test match. The new ball will be utterly critical, because that's when the bounce is at its most unpredictable. As the ball ages, the inconsistent bounce is a little more manageable, and the ball also comes far slower off the pitch

76.5
W
Boult to Mohammed Shami, OUT, Tom Latham falls to his left, scoops up a low-flying ball, and comes up claiming a catch at third gully (New Zealand have no slips, only gullies), and Rod Tucker soft-signals out and goes to the third umpire. Stays back to a length ball, Shami, and plays down the wrong line. The angle takes his outside edge. Replays, as always, are a little fuzzy, some of them suggesting his fingers are under the ball, some suggesting he may have grounded it. Will CK Nandan, the third umpire, go with the soft signal? He does, and India are finally bowled out

Mohammed Shami c Latham b Boult 1 (17m 7b 0x4 0x6) SR: 14.28

76.4
1
Boult to Saha, 1 run, down the pitch again, this time the ball is outside off and he steers to deep point and takes the single
76.3
0
Boult to Saha, no run, down the track, looks to whip through the leg side, and finds his front pad coming between bat and ball. Big lbw appeal, but he's a long way down, and the ball had pitched outside leg
76.2
0
Boult to Saha, no run, full, pitching on middle and off and slanting a long way away. Left alone
76.1
0
Boult to Saha, no run, fullish on off stump, defended to deep point. Doesn't take the single
76.1
1w
Boult to Saha, 1 wide, full, slanting extremely wide of off, Saha leaves, mostly because he has no other option

Boult over the wicket.

Aravind: "Did anyone notice yet the symmetry of the Indian team's scorecard in the 2nd innings? Every odd numbered batsman has a single digit score, every even numbered batsman has a double digit score. If Shami does not get 10 runs, the innings scorecard will be completely symmetric (assuming Saha cannot get to three figures) :-)"

END OF OVER:
76 | 2 Runs | IND: 261/9

  • Mohammed Shami1 (6b)
  • Wriddhiman Saha57 (116b)
  • Neil Wagner15-3-45-1
  • Mitchell Santner16-2-60-3
75.6
0
Wagner to Mohammed Shami, no run, oh my, how did that miss off stump? Angles it in from wide of the crease, straightens it past the outside edge, and causes a cold wind to blow over the off bail
75.5
0
Wagner to Mohammed Shami, no run, full and wide, Shami drives with zero footwork and predictable results

Around the wicket again

75.4
1
Wagner to Saha, 1 run, back of a length, tucked off the hip to long leg

This is the seventh time an Indian wicketkeeper has made twin fifties in a Test. MS Dhoni did it four times.

75.3
0
Wagner to Saha, no run, bouncer over middle stump, Saha ducks under
75.2
1
Wagner to Mohammed Shami, 1 run, short on middle stump, pulled to deep square leg
75.1
0
Wagner to Mohammed Shami, no run, short down leg, Shami misses the pull

Over the wicket comes Wagner.

END OF OVER:
75 | 8 Runs | IND: 259/9

  • Wriddhiman Saha56 (114b)
  • Mohammed Shami0 (2b)
  • Mitchell Santner16-2-60-3
  • Neil Wagner14-3-43-1
74.6
4
Santner to Saha, FOUR, and again. Sweeps off a stump-to-stump line, but by now he has all the license in the world to play those sorts of shots, gets his front leg across and out of the way and places it to the left of short fine leg again
74.5
4
Santner to Saha, FOUR, tossed up on middle and leg, and Saha brings up his second fifty of the match with a firm sweep to the left of short fine leg. What a performance from him!

Match Coverage

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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.