By CricketCountry Staff
New Zealand start day two of the second Test with the score of 328 runs for the loss of six wickets against India at Chinnaswamy Stadium at Bangalore on Saturday.
Published: Sep 01, 2012, 08:47 AM (IST)
Edited: Sep 01, 2012, 08:47 AM (IST)
New Zealand captain Ross Taylor notched up his seventh Test century to pull his team out of trouble and guide the Kiwis to a respectable 328 for six on the opening day © AFP
By CricketCountry Staff
Bangalore: Sep 1, 2012
New Zealand start day two of the second Test with the score of 328 runs for the loss of six wickets against India at Chinnaswamy Stadium at Bangalore on Saturday.
Captain Ross Taylor launched a stunning counter-attack with a blistering 113 as New Zealand showed great fighting spirit against India to recover from early jolts in the second Test at Bangalore on Friday.
Taylor notched up his seventh Test century to pull his team out of trouble and guide the Kiwis to a respectable 328 for six on the opening day before bad light stopped play at the Chinnaswamy Stadium.
It was a vastly improved batting display by the Kiwis who were bundled out cheaply in both the innings in the massive defeat in the first Test in Hyderabad.
Taylor showed the way as he led from the front by being more aggressive against the spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha who could not extract much turn from the first day track.
The Kiwi captain, who failed in both the innings in Hyderabad, unleashed a flurry of strokes as the runs came at a brisk pace right through the day. Taylor clobbered 16 boundaries and two sixes in his 127-ball knock.
Pragyan Ojha was the pick of the Indian bowlers on day one by taking four wickets for 90 runs while Zaheer Khan and Ashwin chipped in with a wicket each.
Brief Scores: New Zealand 328 for 6 (Ross Taylor 113, Kruger van Wyk 63*, Martin Guptill 53; Pragyan Ojha 4 for 90, Zaheer Khan 1 for 74) vs India
