India vs New Zealand Highlights 1st Test Day 4: Rain forces stumps, NZ 0/0, need 107 runs to win

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 4: Rishabh Pant opened his account with a single. Meanwhile, Sarfaraz Khan hits another boundary to move into his 80s, he is marching towards his maiden Test hundred quite quickly here. IND 245/3 in 52 overs

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 4: William ORourke from the other end here. Sarfaraz Khan welcomed him with a cheeky boundary over the third man. Excellent game awareness as he knew there was no one there and played it in the air for a four on the first ball. He found another one on the fourth ball with a late cut, he waited for the delivery and played it into the gap for a four. IND 240/3 in 51 overs

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 4: Sarfaraz Khan edged the ball on the first delivery of the day but defended the next three quite well. It's a big test for the young Indian batter to deliver on the big stage. Only one run came off the over. IND 232/3 in 50 overs

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 4: Sarfaraz Khan and Rishabh Pant are in the middle to start the day 4 proceedings for India. Matt Henry has the ball in hand as New Zealand eye early wickets.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 4: Rishabh Pant trained with Abhishek Nayar before the star of Day 4's play. He also did some jogging with Kuldeep Yadav. The wicketkeeper batter is going to be crucial for India to fightback in the game.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 4: Rachin Ravindra was relieved after New Zealand managed to bag the big wicket of Virat Kohli off the final ball of the third day, and hoped the bowlers will keep piling pressure on India on Saturday. "It's pretty hard to crystal-ball gaze into the future. It's a quality batting line-up on a wicket that's not doing too much, so it's important for us to hold our lines and lengths and do that for long periods. But I think Kohli's wicket at the end was very important," Ravindra told reporters during the post-day press meet.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 4: Sarfaraz Khan, who replaced Shubman Gill in the XI, impressed with his unconventional yet effective batting style, ending the day unbeaten on 70 off 78 balls. His innovative shots disrupted New Zealand's bowling plans.

"We all enjoy watching him bat. After scoring a double century in the Irani Cup, hopefully, he will do the same here. He has a unique style and is particularly adept against spinners. His counter-attack against Ajaz Patel forced them to switch to pacers. I really appreciate his technique and find it entertaining to watch," Kuldeep noted.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 4: Kuldeep Yadav, reflecting on the day's play, acknowledged the challenges of controlling the run rate on a pitch that offered little assistance to spinners.

"It's tough to control runs here. There wasn't much turn yesterday, possibly due to the pitch being a bit damp. Without significant turn or rough patches, especially at this ground with its short boundaries, even good deliveries can be scored off," Kuldeep said at the post-day press conference.

"Credit to New Zealand, they batted really well. We need to bat well tomorrow. We made a good start today but we are still 125 runs behind. We have to take it session by session," he added.

“If I were NZ, I would be slightly worried with India’s strong reply. This Indian team has a great knack of coming back. Only recently SA needed 30 off 30 balls in the WT20 finals, remember that comeback?” Manjrekar wrote on X, referring to India’s dramatic World Cup win, where the bowlers defended a seemingly modest total to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

Virat Kohli and Sarfaraz Khan put on a fighting 136-run partnership for the third wicket as India fought back on day three of the first test against New Zealand on Friday. Khan was 70 not out off 78 balls, hitting seven fours and three sixes, while Kohli fell at the stroke of stumps with India finishing the day at 231-3 in 49 overs. This was after New Zealand finished with 402 runs in its first innings for a lead of 356. It was the first time since 2012 that a visiting side took a 200-plus lead in a test on Indian soil.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 4: India wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant remained off the field after he injured his knee on Thursday, with Dhruv Jurel substituted. It was the same knee Pant hurt in a serious car crash in December 2022 that forced him out of action for more than a year. Meanwhile, the star wicketkeeper batter is expected to come out to bat on Day 4 and rescue India once again.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 4: Rachin Ravindra opened up on his brilliant Test century after Day 3's play in Bengaluru.

“Was just trying to build partnerships. That partnership with Tim (Southee) really helped me out, the objective was clear and we knew what we needed to do. (On Bengaluru) It’s a little bit comforting although the wicket is completely different, nice knowing the surroundings. It’s a lovely wicket to bat. Not really superstitious,” Ravindra said.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 4: Virat Kohli, on Friday, completed 9000 runs in Test cricket during his 70-run mark. In terms of innings taken to reach 9,000 runs, Kohli's 197 innings make him the sixth-slowest to achieve the milestone. The record for the slowest is jointly held by Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Steve Waugh, who both took 216 innings. Kumar Sangakkara holds the record for the fastest to 9,000 runs, achieving it in just 172 innings, followed by Smith and Dravid. Kohli is the slowest among the Indian players in this group, with Dravid taking 174 innings, Tendulkar 179, and Gavaskar 192.

Rachin Ravindra scored his second test hundred as he shepherded New Zealand to a tall total - 402. Ravindra scored 134 runs off 157 balls, and put on 137 runs for the eighth wicket with Tim Southee, who scored 65 runs off 73 balls.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 4: Rohit Sharma put up a solid foundation for India in the second innings with a fine half-century but he once again failed to convert it into a big score. Rohit raced to his half-century, scoring 52 off 63 balls, hitting eight fours and a six. He was bowled in an unfortunate manner, the ball flicking onto the stumps, as India was down to 95-2.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 4: India need to come out on Day 4 with a clear plan in mind about what target they're looking to set for New Zealand. They need Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja to join the party with the bat to score the valuable runs in the lower-middle order to give themselves a chance with the ball.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 4: The onus is now on Sarfaraz Khan (70*) to rescue the hosts on Day 4, he is already well set in the middle and managed to put pressure on the kiwi bowlers on Day 3. He is known for scoring daddy hundreds in domestic cricket and needs to replicate the same on the big stage now.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 4: It was an unfortunate end of Day 3 for India as they lost a well-set Virat Kohli on the final ball to lose control of the innings. Kohli, who batted with a lot of control and attacked the spinners, scored 70 and missed out on his Test century.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 4: Hello and welcome to our live blog of Day 4 of first Test match between India and New Zealand from Bengaluru.