new delhi takeaways from day 3 of the second test between india and new zealand at the eden gardens that saw india extend their lead to 339 runsnew zealand resist indian attackthrough jeetan patel and bj watling new zealand resisted the indian attack early on day 3 at the eden gardens with a resolute 60run stand that frustrated the home side under dark clouds new zealands resurrection was mainly led by patels runaball 47 whose turn it was now to impress with the bat a four off the days first ball patel declared his intent and that as it turned out started nzs mini revival he dealt with bhuvneshwars early swing and shamis pace nothing less than a toporder batsman his drives were a thing of perfection equally convincing did he look against ravindra jadeja showing impressive footwork and keep the scoringrate going damn good effort this from a man who had previously announced twice on record that he was done harbouring hopes of playing again with the national team new zealand chip away with early wicketsmidway into the second session new zealand had staged a comeback that was due for a while trent boult and matt henry had reduced india to 434 in their second innings with a lead of just over 150 runs of those to return to the dressing room were openers shikhar dhawan murali vijay and halfcenturions from the first innings cheteshwar pujara and ajinkya rahane trent boult and matt henry sharing the scalps pujara received a bad call from rod tucker who had been poor in his decision in this test everytime the ball has hit the batsmans pad on middle and leg dhawan who was just beginning to look good with a couple of nicelytimed fours missed one that came back in and was trapped in front of the stumps rahane went for a pull from outside off and lobbed a simple catch to boultkohli stretches indias lead past 200india were 434 when their sinking ship was taken charge of by skipper virat kohli he batted with circumspection and rightly so the approach was positive sans the early manufacturing of shots that had led to his dismissals of late even though boult gave him and india a nervous moment when new zealand went up for a huge legbefore shout but it was eventually turned down on basis of the ball pitching outside leg patel was slightly erratic and kohli cashed in he pitched it full and scored vastly between midon and deep midwicket kohli fell five short of a halfcentury when boult coming round the wicket angled a ball in it stayed low and caught him stone deadpoor umpires continue to mar the testafter a string of bad decisions on day 2 rod tucker gave a couple of harsh calls in the indian innings cheteshwar pujara was given out legbefore while the ball clearly seemed to be drifting down leg r ashwin would suffer a similar fate as he too was given out lbw