Debutant Shreyas Iyer and recovered opener Shubhaman Gill helped India to a 258-4 victory over Kyle Jamieson in the first Test against New Zealand in Kanpur on Thursday with the help of a half-century. Opener Mayank Agarwal, Iyer's unbeaten 75 prevented New Zealand from taking control of the competition when Jamieson took three top-order wickets on the first day.
Ravindra Jadeja also assisted himself with an unbeaten 50 and 113 for the fifth wicket with Iyer.
The dry, brown pitch at Green Park Stadium persuaded both sides to pack three spinners but it was Jamieson who impressed the most with the slow ball.
"Hopefully the new ball will swing a bit in the morning and we can take a few wickets," Jamison (3-46) told broadcasters at the end of the day's play.
"India is probably a fraction ahead, but we've done well by lowering them to four." A number of frontline players, including regular skipper Virat Kohli, who have either rested or recovered, have entered into a new opening partnership after India decided to bat on a smoky morning. North Indian city.
Jamieson drew the first blood, dismissing Agarwal for 13, but Gill took a longer, more eventful position.
The 22-year-old was wrongly punished in LBW before he could open his account, a decision he had to cancel after confirming the inside edge in the replay before hitting the ball pad.
Gill, then six, was lucky when LBW's appeal against Ejaz Patel was rejected.
New Zealand regretted not reconsidering that decision as subsequent replays confirmed that the ball could hit the middle stump. Patel hit a six for 50 and Cheteshwar Pujara scored 26 for the second wicket. , The value at the time of Jamison's injury was 71.
In the first over after lunch, the opener pulled a good length ball from outside the offstump and dismissed Gill.
India's stand-in captain Ajinkya Rahane was similarly bowled by Jamison for 35.
Iyer almost got out in his deep effort to run his first Test but soon found a safe way to do it.
He hit two sixes and seven boundaries and was essential for a century in his first Test innings.
The Test team last met in June when New Zealand won the final of the World Test Championship.
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