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Cricket News Desk. The fourth day of the first Test match being played between India and New Zealand at M. Chinnaswamy in Bengaluru was full of excitement. Today, when the Indian team started playing at 231 runs for 3 wickets, the pair of Sarfaraz and Pant gave a flying start. Sarfaraz showed tremendous rhythm and scored a century in 110 balls to get Team India out of trouble. The first century of Sarfaraz Khan's career also captivated the audience in the dressing room, when Rohit, Virat and head coach Gautam Gambhir encouraged the player by clapping. At the same time, today before lunch, there was a knock of rain, due to which the game had to be stopped for some time. However, when the game started again after this, Pant and Sarfaraz kept the attacking mode on and worked to destroy the Kiwis.
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During this time, the Indian team made a comeback on the strength of these batsmen and equalized the score of the Kiwi team. However, after this, the fourth wicket of Team India fell in the form of Sarfaraz Khan, who became the victim of Tim Saudi after playing a stormy innings of 150 runs. Then Team India got another big blow in the form of Rishabh Pant, who unfortunately after coming close to his century, was out to William O'Rourke on a personal score of 99.
After this, Team India's sixth wicket fell in the form of KL Rahul, who became the victim of William O'Rourke after scoring 12 runs. Then Team India got the seventh blow in the form of Ravindra Jadeja who got trapped in William O'Rourke's net after scoring 5 runs. Then, against the troubled Team India, Matt Henry wreaked such havoc that first he dismissed Ashwin for 15 runs and then dismissed Bumrah and Siraj for the pavilion without even opening the account.
India's second innings was limited to 426 runs and by taking a lead of 106 runs, New Zealand set a winning target of 107 runs. In response, New Zealand, chasing the target, could play only four balls and then due to bad light, it was decided to end the play on the fourth day. For the Kiwi team, captain Tom Latham and Devon Conway returned unbeaten without scoring anything.
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