India’s lowest Test total at home venue after Matt Henry and William O’Rourke helped New Zealand dismiss the hosts for just 46 runs on the second day of the first match in Bengaluru collapsed.
After the opening day was washed out by rain, India immediately regretted their decision to bat first, with seamers Henry and O’Rourke taking center stage.
Henry claimed 5 for 15 and O’Rourke returned 4 for 22 to condemn Rohit Sharma’s side to their third-lowest five-day total. This surpassed the 36 in Australia in 2020 and the 42 in the UK 50 years ago.
Rohit, Virat Kohli and Sarfaraz Khan all returned to the pavilion with 10 boards, the latter two making ducks, while Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rishabh Pant (the only two batsmen to make double figures) steadied the ship with a stand of 21. Yes. .
But India soon wilted from 31 for 3 to 7 for 34 and after Jaiswal made 13, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin departed for ducks.
Pant top-scored 20 as Henry, who moved to 100 Test wickets, and O’Rourke cleaned up the tail with a stunning flow of play that gave the Black Caps complete control.
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