Jimmy Neesham and Tom Latham were making their Test debut for New Zealand. They became 263rd and 264th player to represent New Zealand in Test cricket.
Tom’s father Rod also played four Tests for New Zealand between 1992 and 1993. A total of nine father-son combinations have now played Test cricket for New Zealand (including Walter Hadlee and his two sons Dayle and Richard). Tom however blotted his copybook by getting dismissed for a duck.
Ishant Sharma (6-51) returned his best figures in Test cricket, obliterating 6 for 55 against West Indies at Bridgetown in 2011.
Corey Anderson’s wicket was Ishant Sharma’s 100th in an away Test. He became eighth Indian (and fourth fast bowler after Kapil Dev, Zaheer Khan and Javagal Srinath to do so).
Ishant has now taken six wickets in an innings three times in an away Test. The other two occasions for him were against West Indies at Bridgetown in 2011 and against New Zealand in the previous Test at Auckland. Among the Indians only Kapil Dev has taken more six-wicket innings hauls in away Tests (four).
Last time India dismissed an opposition on the opening day of an away Test match was at Nottingham in 2011 when England were dismissed for 221 in 68.4 overs. India, however, went on to lose the match by 319 runs.
New Zealand’s total of 192 is the fourth lowest by a side in match’s first innings after India won the toss and elected to bowl first. The lowest is 145 by Australia at Adelaide in 1991-92.
With Ishant Sharma picking up six wickets and Mohammed Shami snapping up remaining four wickets, it provided only the fourth instance of two Indian fast bowlers taking all ten opposition wickets. The last time this had happened was against West Indies at Ahmedabad in 1983-84. Kapil Dev took 9 for 83 and Balwinder Sandhu took one for 45.
