Earlier, India recorded their lowest-ever team Test score at home.
During the ongoing 1st India vs New Zealand Test, India batter KL Rahul had a major brain-fade moment in the middle that hurt India’s chances badly.
After recording the lowest-ever team Test score at home, getting bundled out for just 46 runs, India would have hoped for an early breakthrough with the ball.
The chance came during the 13th over when New Zealand skipper Tom Lathan nicked a Mohammed Siraj delivery and the ball flew towards the slips where Virat Kohli and KL Rahul were standing.
However, KL Rahul, didn’t go for it and the ball went past him and it also left Indian skipper Rohit Sharma fuming.
Check the video of the incident below.
Speaking about the match, India had a dismal outing with the bat. After rain washed out Day 1 of the game, India won the toss on Day 2 and opted to bat first.
However, India slumped to their lowest total at home and third lowest overall. As many as five batters were dismissed on duck – Virat Kohli, Sarfaraz Khan, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin.
For the Kiwis, Matt Henry and William O’Rourke were the pick of the bowlers with the pace duo sharing 9 wickets between them. Tim Southee took the other remaining scalp.
At the time of writing this report, the Blackcaps are comortably poised with the scorecard reading 99 for 1 in 27 overs and Devon Conway and Will Young batting in the middle.
The only breakthrough so far came via Kuldeep Yadav, who forced a DRS review and got the wicket of Kiwi skipper Tom Latham.
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