After the T20I series, now the focus is on the longest format of the game. India versus New Zealand test series started on November 25 where the 1st test is been played at Green Park stadium in Kanpur.
Indian crowd chorus to support India
On the very first day of the test match, the Indian crowd was seen motivating Team India with slogans of “Jeetega Bhai Jeetega, India Jeetega”.
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In the crowd, one fan yelled “Pakistan Murdabad” with a few others people joining it with “Murdabad Murdabad”. Later the Indian fans were heard chanting “Bharat Mata ki Jai” and “Vande Mataram” to show their patriotic side.
Video of that Incident
India lost 4 wickets for 154 runs at Tea Break
The stand-in skipper, Rahane won the toss and elected to bat first. India didn’t have them both first-choice options in form of Rohit and Rahul which meant that Shubman needed to bat at the top and Shreyas Iyer made his Test debut in the middle order.
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Mayank walked out with Shubman to open the innings. India lost Mayank early in the 8th over as Jamieson drew the first blood. After that India had a good partnership. Gill was looking in good touch, Soon he made fifty as well.
Just after the Lunch, in the very first over India lost Shubman as he was clean bowled by Jamieson. Jamieson has been the stand-out performer for the Kiwis. India’s stand-in Captain and Vice-Captain were also not able to make their starts countable as they got out on 35 and 26 runs respectively. At tea, India is 154-4 after 56 overs. Iyer, the debutant is batting well and has experienced Jadeja as his partner at the other end.
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