advantage 2397 is not the most secure position to be in but neither is it concerning enough for a surface that has some spice in it for india they would be aiming at least another 60 odd runs to put new zealand who are already a quality batsman short having lost skipper kane williamson to illness under the pump the good news for them though is that the start has been promising with seamer matt henry picking up 335after a wicketless second session india were banking on pujara and rahane to continue the domination and they did that to a certain extent the scoringrate struggled in the first and second sessions but spiked post tea with both batsmen finding the gaps more often it was an ideal pujara and rahane sort of a knock with indias no3 just instilling a bit of class in his inningsdays after virat kohli and coach anil kumble had spoken how theyd prefer pujara to score more freely the batsman was up to the task he fell 13 short of what would have been a deserving century its his third fifty in a row what stood out was the way he spotlessly danced down to spinners to reach to the pitch of the ballpartnering him at the other end was rahane who did really well to soak the pressure coming 10 minutes before tea post it he was a different batsman altogether he brought up his fifty earlier in the final session as india promised to be cruising along but just then pujara fell courtesy a lazy uppish drive that went straight to martin guptill at short cover rohit sharmas dismissal for 2 soon after didnt help either he had injured his shoulder while trying to dive in after a mixup with rahane and soon lobbed a bat pad to shortfine legwith pujara back rahane needed to take india into the safe zone but once he fell legbefore to jeetan patel leaving india at 2006 worries crept in india could have sent in either ravindra jadeja or wriddhiman saha at that stage but kohli persisted with ashwin the move seemed to be working for a while with ashwin carting three fours off mitchell santner but that didnt last henry rapped him on the pads two overs before stumps and the equation had changedhow many more can india get ravindra jadeja has three handy knocks behind him and saha registered a test century to his name not so long agostay tuned and return to us tomorrow to see how the remaining batsmen farebrief scores india 2397 pujara 87 rahane 77 matt henry 335 at stumps on day 1day 1 tea report rahane pujara seize control for indiawhile it took some tremendous effort from new zealand pacers trent boult and henry to steal the show in the first session of the kolkata test an equally inspiring and almost stubbornlike approach from pujara and rahane put india back on track in the second from 463 india