India had New Zealand on the mat at a shaky 60 for six but allowed the hosts to stage a remarkable recovery through fighting centuries by skipper Daniel Vettori and Jesse Ryder in the first cricket Test at Hamilton on Wednesday. Put into bat, the Kiwis suffered a dramatic top-order collapse in the first session before Vettori and Ryder steadied the ship with a defiant 186-run stand to take the Kiwis to a healthy 279 on the opening day.
