Updates
1:39 PM: Wicket! Sensational start from Akash Deep, New Zealand skipper Tom Latham clean bowled for 1 run. The ball nips back and goes right through the defence and castles onto the stumps
1:30 PM: New Zealand second innings underway
1:24 PM: Innings Break: Team India takes 28 runs lead against New Zealand after being bowled out for 263 runs. Akash Deep was the last wicket to fall after being run out at the strikers end. Ajaz Patel finished with figures of 5/103.
Thepitch is raising lot of questions and India's pin trio of Ashwin, Jadeja and Sundar will be quite handy in these conditions. The New Zealand batters will have to bat out of their skins to set a big total for India to chase. STay tuned as players return to field in sometime
1:09 PM: WICKET! Ajaz Patel has a fifer. Ravi Ashwin innings comes to an end, Mitchell completes an easy catch in slip. Patel had taken 10 wickets in single innings at this same venue couple of years back. Indeed a big moment for Kiwi spinner.
12:57 PM: India for the first time in the series takes lead against New Zealand with Ashwin hitting Ajaz Patel for a six. Shubman Gill (90 runs) and Rishabh Pant (60 runs) also made vital contributions towards the total
12:47PM: Heartbreak! Shubman Gill goes for 90. Ajaz Patel has the biog wicket. Flighted delivery on the off stumps, Gill looks to get onto the pitch of the ball. Leading edge and Mitchell takes simple catch at slips
12:35 PM: WICKET! Ajaz Patel is heading towards a fifer after getting rid of Sarfaraz Khan for a duck. Sarafraz offers forward-defensive shot but the ball turns sharply to kiss his glove on the way through to Blundell behind the stumps
12:21 PM: WICKET! Glenn Philips has broken the partnership. Ravindra Jadeja's innings comes to an end for 14 runs after Mitchell takes smart catch in slips.
12:15 PM: play resumes post lunch and India manage to reach 200 runs
11: 30 AM: Lunch: It has been a good session for India after losing just one wicket of Rishabh Pant. Pant scored 60 runs, while Gill remains unbeaten on 70 runs. Both Pant and Gill were dropped before completing their half centuries. New Zealand will hope to come back stronger post lunch and try to finish off Indian innings as soon as possible. How will India respond? Stay tuned for updates
10:57 AM: WICKET! Ish Sodhi has finally done it, Rishabh Pant Depart for 60 runs. The ball comes back in sharply to miss the inside edge and hit the pad. Pant reviews it but the tracker calls it umpries call. The wicketkeeper batsman looks very disappointed
10:42 AM: Sloppy! Matt Henry has dropped Rishabh Pant on 59 runs. The drop was similar to that of Shubman Gill. Pant looking to clear midoff but mistimes his shot. The ball came straight into Henry's hand but the Kiwi pacer fails to latch onto the catch
10:13 AM: Half-centuries for both Rishabh Pant and Shubman Gill, what a knock from both the battersespecially after India had lost 4 wickets on Day 1. Gill could have gone for 45 had it not been for substitute fielder Mark Chapman who dropped a regulation catch
10:02 AM: DROPPED! Mark Chapman has dropped a sitter and Shubman Gill survives. Gill skips down the pitch to play big shot but ends up skying it to long-on where the substitute fielder Chapman gets under and then spills it. Can Gill make this chance count
9: 35 AM: Rishabh Pant shows his intent after scoring three boundaries to Ajaz Pant in the first over of the day. Can Pant and Gill turn thing around for India?
Hello and Welcome to our Live Coverage of the Mumbai Test between India and New Zealand. Team India a pretty close to another batting collapse after losing four wickets in the final session of the play. New Zealand hold sligh tedge on coming into Day 2 so can India bounce back
Preview
It's Day 2 of the final test of the series in Mumbai and India find themselves in trouble at 86/4 at Stumps against New Zealand, on Day 1.After bowling out New Zealand for 235, India were going strong at 78/1 but in the final 15 minutes, the Kiwi bowlers struck back with three wickets. Yashasvi Jaiswal fell for 30 to Ajaz Patl, and then the spinner also removed nightwatchman Mohammed Siraj for a golden duck. Then miscommunication cost Virat Kohli (4) his wicket in a run out. Shubman Gill (31*) and Rishabh Pant (1*) remained unbeaten for India and resume batting on Day 2. India trail by 149 runs and will look to reduce the deficit on Day 2.
Batting first, New Zealand were bowled out for 235 runs in their first innings. Daryl Mitchell missed out on his century after getting dismissed for 82 runs off 129 balls. Ravindra Jadeja picked up his 14th Test five-wicket haul by taking two quick wickets inside the first hour of the third session. Jadeja dismissed Ish Sodhi and Matt Henry in the same over to achieve the milestone. Meanwhie, Sundar removed Ajaz Patel for the final wicket