Cricket

India v New Zealand, Ist Test: India 29/0 Day One

India had New Zealand on the mat at a precarious 60 for six but allowed the hosts to stage a remarkable recovery through fighting centuries by skipper Daniel Vettori and Jesse Ryder on the first day of the first Test on Wednesday.

Put into bat, the Kiwis suffered a dramatic top-order collapse in the first session before Vettori (118) and Ryder (102) steadied the ship with a defiant 186-run stand to take the Kiwis to a healthy 279 all out on the opening day.

Kiwi skipper Vettori led from front, notching up his third Test century, while Ryder curbed his natural stroke-play to struck his maiden Test hundred on an eventful day the Seddon Park stadium. Their seventh-wicket innings-rejuvenating partnership bettered the 163 that Bert Sutcliffe and Bruce Taylor had knit together against India at Calcutta in 1964-65.

For India, the pace bowlers did the trick as they struck at regular intervals. Ishant took four wickets and Munaf took three while Zaheer pitched in with two wickets at the top.

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