NZ tour of India, Oct 16 - Nov 5

[mikesiva]

New Zealand 402 all out

Ravindra 134
Conway 91
Southey 65

Jadeja 3-72
Kuldeep 3-99

[alfie]

Been a week for Cricket surprises , eh ? All the Big Guns knocked out in the Women's WC , Pakistan suddenly going from bunnies to conquerors and now NZ giving India the horrors on their own turf...

Home team doing a bit better than 46 all out this time around ; but two down and still 261 behind doesn't look too promising...

[GarlicJam]

After conceding a 350+ run lead to NZ, India have managed to wipe that out with only 3 wickets los

It will be a real turn up should they manage to scrape a win here.t

[meninblue]

India now lead by 52 runs. Can 2 specialist batsmen + Jadeja and Ashwin and tail give a target of 150. Atleast innings defeat was avoided after a terrible perfromance in first batting innings.

[Arthur Crabtree]

India must have an outside chance from here, so long as one of Ashwin and Jadeja hang around to near the close.

[mikesiva]

India collapse from 408-3 to 462 all out

Sarfaraz 150
Pant 99

Kohli 70
Rohit 52

O'Rourke 3-92
Henry 3-102

Target 107

[Arthur Crabtree]

Wow, 7-54 for NZ at the end when they must have been on their knees. Still a bit to do though...

[meninblue]

NZ end a long 36-year wait as they beat India in India for the first time since 1988.

[mikesiva]

New Zealand 110-2

Young 48*

Bumrah 2-29

[Arthur Crabtree]

Congrats to NZ.

Well done to India for digging in.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Though scoring at 5 an over isn't digging in.

[andy]

Everyone starting to play that way now...if that helps to keep people interested then go for it...they did well to get that many second innings

[alfie]

Was a good fightback by India after that dreadful first innings and conceding a huge lead. Some outstanding batting from Sarfaraz and Pant (always fun to watch !) but after their late order was blown away it was always unlikely they could stop NZ running down the target . Bumrah and Siraj bowled very well and made life difficult for the NZ bats with the new ball but Ravindra steered them home pretty comfortably in the end . Looked a bad call at the toss , in retrospect : but apparently NZ were also intending to bat first had they the option ... so maybe no one is much good at judging a pitch in advance

Lot of interest now for the remaining two games . You'd think India will come back hard : they certainly won't want to give up that unbeaten home series record after 12 years !

[sussexpob]

Good to see Risbah Pant score some runs after his horror injury

[Durhamfootman]

You'd think India will come back hard : they certainly won't want to give up that unbeaten home series record after 12 years !

they might go full Pakistan and prepare a series of bunsens to take the NZ seamers out of the equation