Kanpur, November 26
Tim Southee bowled an incisive morning spell to take five wickets, and his show was brilliantly complemented by openers Will Young and Tom Latham as New Zealand dominated India to reach 129/0 on Day 2 of the opening Test here today.
The only highlight for India was Shreyas Iyer’s 105 off 171 balls on Test debut. Iyer became the 16th Indian batter to make a hundred on Test debut, joining an illustrious list which includes the legendary Lala Amarnath, Gundappa Viswanath and Sourav Ganguly, among others.
“I was really happy with the way everything went right from Day 1. Couldn’t get good sleep last night. Especially when you are batting overnight, I thought I batted really well yesterday but had to still focus again today,” he said.
Lucky No. 13
Playing his 80th Test match, Southee took 5/69 for his 13th five-wicket haul on an unresponsive track to send India packing for 345 after they started the day at 258/4.
Young, in his fourth Test appearance, then made an unbeaten 75 off 180 balls as Latham (50 not out off 165 balls), the seasoned campaigner, survived three on-field decisions (two leg-before and one caught-behind), negated by DRS, to frustrate Indian spinners with a gritty defensive game.
The Green Park track became better for batting on the second day and the turn on offer was minimal. The variable bounce wasn’t also there for the better part of the 57 overs New Zealand batted.
Since it was slow turn, the Black Caps openers mostly plonked their front foot and neutralised the turn. And when they played on the back foot, there was enough time to manoeuvre the ball on both sides of the wicket.
Both were able to adjust on the back foot against the toothless Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin.
Axar Patel struggled without assistance from the track as his accuracy on the leg stump line was of little value.
Young struck 12 boundaries while Latham helped himself to four hits to the fence. — PTI
Scoreboard
India 1st innings (Overnight 258/4)
S Iyer c Young b Southee 105
R Jadeja b Southee 50
W Saha c Blundell b Southee 1
R Ashwin b Patel 38
A Patel c Blundell b Southee 3
U Yadav not out 10
I Sharma lbw b Patel 0
Extras: (b 5, lb 2, nb 4, w 1) 12
Total: (All out, 111.1 overs) 345
FOW: 1-21, 2-82, 3-106, 4-145, 5-266, 6-288, 7-305, 8-313, 9-339
Bowling O M R W
Tim Southee 27.4 6 69 5
Kyle Jamieson 23.2 6 91 3
Ajaz Patel 29.1 7 90 2
William Somerville 24 2 60 0
Rachin Ravindra 7 1 28 0
New Zealand 1st innings
T Latham not out 50
W Young not out 75
Extras: (lb 1, nb 3) 4
Total: (No wicket, 57 overs) 129
Bowling O M R W
Ishant Sharma 6 3 10 0
Umesh Yadav 10 3 26 0
Ravichandran Ashwin 17 5 38 0
Ravindra Jadeja 14 4 28 0
Axar Patel 10 1 26 0
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