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Bengaluru, October 18 (HS). The third day of the first Test of the three-match series being played between India and New Zealand at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru has ended. Virat Kohli, who was batting well, was out on the last ball of today's game. He was dismissed by Glenn Phillips. Facing 102 balls, Kohli scored 70 runs with the help of 8 fours and one six. In this way, by the end of the game on Friday, the Indian team has scored 231 runs for 3 wickets. Sarfaraz Khan is unbeaten on 70 runs in 78 balls with the help of seven fours and three sixes. Currently, the Indian team is 125 runs behind New Zealand on the basis of first innings.
In the second innings, captain Rohit Sharma and young batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal gave a good start to the team. Together they added 72 runs for the first wicket. Yashasvi was out after scoring 35 runs on 52 balls. After this, captain Rohit scored the 18th half-century of his Test career. Rohit was batting well, but he got out in a strange manner. Actually, Rohit had defended the ball well, but the ball went backwards and hit the stumps. In this way Rohit was out. Rohit scored 52 runs in 63 balls with the help of eight fours and one six. After the fall of two wickets, Virat Kohli and Sarfaraz Khan took the innings forward. Both the batsmen scored runs quickly. During this, Sarfaraz scored the fourth half-century of his Test career. Then after this Kohli also hit a fifty. During this, Kohli also became the fourth Indian batsman to complete nine thousand runs in Tests. Both Kohli and Sarfaraz were giving trouble to the Indian team by making a partnership of more than 100 runs, but on the last ball of the third day's play, Kohli was caught by the wicketkeeper off the ball of Glenn Phillips.
For New Zealand, spinner Ajaz Patel got two wickets and Phillips got one wicket.
New Zealand scored 402 runs in the first innings
Earlier, New Zealand scored 402 runs in its first innings on the third day and the Kiwi team got a huge lead of 356 runs on the basis of first innings. In the first innings, New Zealand got a good start by captain Tom Latham and Devon Conway and added 67 runs for the first wicket. This partnership was broken by Kuldeep Yadav by dismissing Latham (15) LBW. After this, Will Young and Conway added 75 runs for the second wicket and took the team to 142. Ravindra Jadeja broke this partnership by dismissing Will Young (33). On the total score of 154, Ashwin gave India its third success by bowling Conway. Conway played a half-century inning of 91 runs.
After this, New Zealand lost the wickets of Daryl Mitchell (18), Tom Blundell (05), Glenn Phillips (14) and Matt Henry (08) in quick succession and the Kiwi team's score became 233 runs for 7 wickets. From here, Rachin Ravindra and Tim Southee batted brilliantly and added 137 runs for the eighth wicket. During this, while Ravindra completed his century, Southee scored a half-century. On the total score of 370, Mohammed Siraj gave the eighth blow to New Zealand by dismissing Southee. Southee played a brilliant half-century of 65 runs. During this, he faced 73 balls and hit 5 fours and 4 sixes. After Southee's dismissal, Ajaz Patel became the victim of Kuldeep Yadav after scoring only 4 runs. Kuldeep ended the Kiwi innings by dismissing Ravindra on the total score of 402. Ravindra played an excellent inning of 134 runs. He faced 157 balls and hit 13 fours and 4 sixes.
For India, Kuldeep Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja took 3-3 wickets, Mohammed Siraj took 2 wickets, Ravichandran Ashwin and Jasprit Bumrah took 1-1 wicket.
India's first innings ended at 46 runs
The first innings of the Indian team, which won the toss and came to bat first, was limited to only 46 runs. For India, Rishabh Pant scored the maximum 20 runs, while five batsmen did not even open the account and three batsmen could not even touch the three-run mark. Apart from Rishabh Pant, only Yashasvi Jaiswal (13) could touch double figures, while Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Sarfaraz Khan, Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin could not even open their account. For New Zealand, Matt Henry took 5 wickets, while William O'Rourke took 4 wickets, while Tim Southee got 1 wicket.