Team India is in an embarrassing situation when they find themselves only with 46 runs, losing all ten wickets. The first day of the first test match against New Zealand in Bengaluru washed out for rain; on the second day, weather remains heavy; the weather department forecasts about rain even on Thursday. Team India captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bat first. His decision to bat first turns into a complete disaster as India loses all of their wickets with only 46 runs on the scoreboard. Indian cricket fans are fuming over Rohit Sharma’s decision to bat first. Later, at the end of the second day, the skipper admitted that he made a mistake to read the surface properly.

Rohit said on press conference after day two, “Look, we felt there was not much grass on the pitch. We thought it will do whatever it has to do in the first couple of sessions and then it is going to take turn as the game goes on. That is how whenever we played in India, the first session is always critical and then the wicket tends to settle down and then the spinners come into play.”

Rohit added further, “As I said, there was not much grass, so the reason to add left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav was because he has bowled on flat pitches and he has taken wickets. So we expected the pitch to be a little flatter than what it turned out to be. So clearly a misjudgment of eading the pitch. Obviously, I did not read the pitch well enough and we sit in that situation today.”

Team India: Rohit Sharma (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (wk), Sarfaraz Khan, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah

Team New Zealand: Tom Latham (captain), Devon Conway, Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Blundell (wicketkeeper), Glenn Phillips, Matt Henry, Tim Southee, Ajaz Patel, William Ourke.

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