India winning the 1st Test

Day1

After winning the ODI series Indian team was starting the test series with a very high confidence to win the three match test series.New Zealand I think always have doubts about the selections in their team.

India won the toss and chose to bat first.Indian decision to bowl first proved great when the New Zealand wickets started to tumble.New Zealand lost their 6 wickets in the first session.But New Zealand recovered with the partnership of Ryder and Vettori.They started the partnership when the score was 60 and had a partnership of 186.Vettori made his 3rd test hundred and scored 118 and Ryder scored his 1st test and made 102 and was the last man to be dismissed.New Zealand were able to make a total of 279.For India Isant Sharma took 4 wickets , M Patel took 3 and Z Khan took 2 wickets.Indian team started their innings and were 29 for no loss.

Day 2

India started day 2 with all their wickets in hand.1st session totally belonged to India because they lost just one wicket which was of Sehwag who was run out.In the 2nd session India again lost just two more wickets two wickets of Gambhir and Rahul Dravid.Gambhir made 72 and Rahul Dravid made 66.New Zealand were never on the top on the whole day and till the end of the day India had lost only 4 wickets with Tendulkar and Yuvraj of the crease.

Day 3

India again dominated the Day 3 and Tendulkar was the main star of the Day 3 scoring 160.New Zealand also were not able to get even the tale enders cheaply , Z Khan scored 51.India scored their highest total in the New Zealand making 520 which gave them the lead of 241.New Zealand with huge runs behind wanted good start from their openers but they lost McIntosh in the first over.New Zealand were till the end of the day 75 with the loss of three wickets and they need big performance from their batsmen to save the match.

Day 4

New Zealand had to bat well on day4 to save the game but their batsmen had no answer of the bowling of Harabajan Singh and it was looking that they would loss the game by inning but McCullum helped them the make of lead of 38 and McCullum made 84 .Harbajan Singh took six wickets.India chased 39 easily without losing any wicket. Tendulkar got the man of the match.

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