inches of a diving virat kohli at shot midoff it stayed low and caught him stone dead his only convincing stroke was a cover drive off boult that thudded into the boundary cushions despite that some edges flew towards the boundary india playing xi 1 shikhar dhawan 2 murali vijay 3 cheteshwar pujara 4 virat kohli capt 5 ajinkya rahane 6 rohit sharma 7 wriddhiman saha wk 8 ravindra jadeja 9 r ashwin 10 bhuvneshwar kumar 11 mohammed shaminew zealand playing xi tom latham 2 martin guptill 3 henry nicholls 4 ross taylor capt 5 luke ronchi 6 mitchell santner 7 bj watling wk 8 jeetan patel 9 matt henry 10 trent boult 11 neil wagner the iconic cricket ground will be hosting the second test between india v new zealand on friday which also happens to be the home teams 250th match on home soil ravindra jadeja has three handy knocks behind him and saha registered a test century to his name not so long ago a cut off mitchell santner brought up indias seventhwicket century stand though it was the leftarmer who drew rohit forward to an outside edge ashwin was hit for three fours from taylor in his first over which forced him to flight the ball more ashwin jadeja regain control for indiafive balls into the second session r ashwin trapped martin guptill for the first new zealand wicket all four shaped nicely away from shikhar dhawan the scoringrate struggled in the first and second sessions but spiked post tea with both batsmen finding the gaps more often he scored at a strikerate touching 40 it looked plumb but umpire rod tucker produced another questionable call ruling it in favour of the batsman the home team was further helped by three boundaries by shami it was the same confidence that allowed india to improve their scoring rate dhawan was hit twice on the thump both to rising boult deliveries but managed to take india to 120 at the lunch interval having taken their lead to 124 runs boult and matt henry began day 2 with an approach that seemed to be working well from 463 india moved to 1363 at tea with two of their most technically sound batsmen playing out a gritty wicketless session his drives were a thing of perfection with frequent rains the entire eden ground has been under cover so the pitch should have retained some moisture and will hence take some time to turn stay tuned and return to us tomorrow to see how the remaining batsmen fare things changed the only fight shown was by tom latham and once he went it was just a matter of time before india winded things up kohli and coach anil kumble have always emphasized on playing five bowlers so it is likely that india return to that fold indian bowlers were again on the mark early after lunch and it resulted in the wicket of henry nicholls who played on to kumar some