India vs New Zealand, 1st Test Day 1: Debutant Shreyas Iyer shows India’s score 258/4 | Cricket News – Times of India

Kanpur: Indian cricket seems to be running on a script this year. Any batsman who has come into the XI to cement his place has ensured that he is ready to play the lead role in the format. Rishabh Pant, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill And Washington Sundar ruled the first half of the year. on Thursday, Shreyas Iyer His Test career got off to an assured start as he went on to field an unbeaten 75 off 136 balls, leaving New Zealand in a desperate situation with 258/4 on the board at the end of the first day.
India went with five specialist batsmen. 78 and 90 Tests behind captain Ajinkya Rahane and vice-captain Cheteshwar Pujara. Mayank Agarwal is struggling to regain his place in his 15th Test, Gill playing his 9th Test and Iyer on debut.
as it happened , Achievement:
As has been the case throughout the year, Pujara and Rahane left after working hard to set up, allowing the undercooked batsmen to do damage control. Gill took the lead in setting the tempo with 52 off 93 balls at the top of the innings before becoming India’s most reliable Test batsman of the year. Ravindra Jadeja With Iyer taking center stage to take India out of the water in the early hours of the second session at 145/4.
This is where Iyer and Jadeja injected intent into the innings. Jadeja’s official presence freed Iyer from their unbeaten 103-run stand, which reduced any threat from the Kiwi spin trio of Ajaz Patel, William Somerville and Rachin Ravindra and negated the paceman’s craftsmanship . Tim Southee And Kyle Jamieson, Jadeja ended the day by swinging his bat after completing his 17th Test half-century. Iyer was out to retaliate like a decisive innings for Mumbai at the same venue seven years ago, when he was on the verge of being dropped.

India’s innings looked quaint for the most part of the first two seasons after Rahane won the toss and elected to bat. The Bare Green Park pitch offered turn but no momentum. Southee and Jamieson made every little move off the pitch, but there was no real way to trouble the batsmen.
Nevertheless, Southee and Jamieson tied the batsmen with traditional seam bowling before resorting to reverse swing. Jamieson caught Agarwal behind with the new ball and came back with the half-new ball and knocked a set off Gill and
Pujara, as it has become a role model for him irrespective of the circumstances, never looked to take the game forward in his hard-hitting 26 off 88 balls. Rahane’s nervous energy did not leave him until Jamieson’s short ball was pulled over the stumps while batting on 35.

The pitch did not give any momentum. Shot making was never going to be easy. But Gill, Iyer and Jadeja presented the blueprint to bat on this track. Backfoot shots were almost out of play. But Iyer’s innings showed how to build momentum and pace the innings in such conditions.
After all, India got the best conditions to bat. Iyer and Gill have been named to take the game forward. He did it with pride. And Jadeja went about like a pro and went about business with little fuss.
Neither the pitch nor the bowling was going to rush the batsmen. It wasn’t about getting stuck on one end. New Zealand had a gameplan: to attack the stumps and choke.

Iyer and Gill charged up the track with the intention of scoring big. Iyer in particular was not going to let the spinners get away with a bad spell. Every time he looked like settling down on a length, he would walk down the track and hit a boundary in front of the wicket.
Two consecutive fours from Ravindra in the second session marked his intent. Before New Zealand could understand anything, Iyer and Jadeja had run away from the game. The left-arm spinners resorted to bowling at the out-leg line to check the rate, yet Iyer made sure he didn’t get away with bowling too many of them.
Iyer’s last scoring shot of the day was a big six over mid-wicket off Somerville in dim light with the new ball.
Iyer and Jadeja will know that they have to score quickly as the pitch doesn’t seem to stick together for long. The first session of the second day is the best opportunity for India to take the game ahead of the Kiwis. Iyer and Jadeja are definitely in the mood to do so.