India are bowled out for their third-lowest total in a Test innings after opting to bat first in overcast Bengaluru.
India were bowled out for their lowest total in a home Test match as they crumbled to 46 all out in the first innings of their first Test against New Zealand in Bengaluru.
The hosts struggled against the pace and movement of New Zealand’s fast bowlers in overcast conditions at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium after India’s captain Rohit Sharma opted to bat first on Thursday.
The first day of the Test was washed out by rain, and clouds hovered above the ground when India’s openers Rohit and Yashasvi Jaiswal went out to bat.
Rohit was the first batter to fall after he was bowled out for two runs by Tim Southee in the seventh over and triggered an Indian collapse that was briefly halted by a 20-run partnership between Jaiswal and wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant.
Pant was the top run scorer with 20 off 49 balls and Jaiswal scored 13 off 63.
Star Indian batter Virat Kohli was one of the five Indian top and middle-order batters dismissed without scoring a run.
Fast bowlers Matt Henry and William O’Rourke picked up the other nine Indian wickets, with Henry getting 5-15 in his 13.2 overs.
O’Rourke, who took the final Indian wicket, finished the innings with figures of 4-22 in his 12 overs, which included six maidens.
This was India’s third-lowest score in a Test innings and the 18th lowest by a Test nation. New Zealand hold the ignominious record of scoring the lowest total in Test history, when they were dismissed on 26 runs against England in 1955.
