After picking up four wickets in India’s first innings, Kyle Jamieson continued his dream debut with the bat, smashing a quickfire 44 as Ne...
After picking up four wickets in India’s first innings, Kyle Jamieson continued his dream debut with the bat, smashing a quickfire 44 as New Zealand finished their outing with a commanding 183-run lead over India in the first Test in Wellington on Sunday.
Ishant Sharma picked up five wickets but the New Zealand lower order did plenty of damage to India’s hopes of turning this Test around.
New Zealand were 348 all out at lunch on day three in their first innings after Jamieson and Colin de Grandhomme pulled the hosts out of a mini collapse with an entertaining 71-run stand for the eighth wicket.
The innings was further extended by Ajaz Patel and Trent Boult who added 38 for the final wicket before Ishant Sharma removed Boult to finish with 5/68.
Jamieson’s run-a-ball knock was a record for a New Zealand number nine on debut eclipsing the 43 by Graham Vivian, also against India, 55 years ago. He also equalled Michael Clarke’s record of hitting most sixes in the first Test innings of a career.
It all started well for India, though. With the hosts leading by 51 overnight, India snapped up two wickets in the first three overs of the day before the lower-order onslaught.
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