Debutant Kyle Jamieson and veteran Tim Southee combined to wrap up India’s first innings for 165 on the second morning of the first Test in...
Debutant Kyle Jamieson and veteran Tim Southee combined to wrap up India’s first innings for 165 on the second morning of the first Test in Wellington on Saturday.
India, after resuming at 122/5, saw their last five wickets fall for only 43 runs.
It was good a session as New Zealand could have hoped for after the Indian batsmen were blown away in just over an hour and then their openers went into the interval without losing their wickets.
Jamieson finished with figures of 4/39 while Southee 4/49.
The India tail was exposed with back-to-back wickets in the fourth over of the morning.
First one to fall was Rishabh Pant who was run out for 19 by Ajaz Patel with a direct hit from point. It was a moment of madness that India did not recover from.
Pant had added nine to his overnight total in a bright start that included belting Patel over the mid-wicket boundary for six off the fourth ball of the morning and he had reason to feel he was hard done by with his dismissal.
Ajinkya Rahane had dabbed a Southee delivery towards Patel at point and took off for a quick single and Pant, reluctant to start running, was well short of the crease when...
