while boult sent back indian skipper virat kohli for 9the only convincing batsman was cheteshwar pujara a day earlier when sourav ganguly had directed the new zealand side to play in the v pujara seemed to have followed that suggestion with seriousness henry at times was too full and pujara took full toll driving him down the ground between cover and midoff seven of the 10 indian boundaries went to him and barring a close outside edge off offspinner jeetan patel he has looked fluid in his strokeplay he brought up indias 50 by rocking on to the backfoot and cutting patel wide off the fielder at deep pointvijay with whom pujara got off the blocks was in for a trying opening spell he was squared up by boult and survived a close legbefore shout to a ball that shaped away a bit he was repeatedly beaten outside off and a couple of boundaries later he nicked a delivery that came in straight after pitching equally uncomfortable was kohli during his 28ball stay his only convincing stroke was a cover drive off boult that thudded into the boundary cushions boult however would set him up nicely mixing his length the next two balls and finally getting kohli to nick one moving awaycontrary to the notion that the ball would not turn on the opening day patel and santner got a few to turn viciously one of which almost thudded onto pujaras stumps the same turn got ross taylor standin skipper in place of an ill kane williamson to bring in an extra second slip in the last over of the session but ajinkya rahane was able to weather the storm in the final moments of a session which belonged to new zealandbrief scores india 573 pujara 31 henry 214 at lunch on day 1toss report no place for gambhir in playing xiso as expected gautam gambhir is left out of the side and shikhar dhawan replaces kl rahul the only other change for india from kanpur is the inclusion on bhuvneshwar kumar ahead of umesh yadav who had a pretty ordinary outing in 1st test for new zealand jeetan patel is back after three and a half years in place of ish sodhi while and henry nicholls is comes in for kane williamson to further strengthen the bowling new zealand also play an extra seamer in matt henryindia 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 wagnerearly setback for new zealandwe have some bad news if youre a new zealand fan kane williamson has been ruled out of kolkata test with illness there were speculations