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- Updated: September 23, 2016
Lunch New Zealand 71 for 1 (Latham 25*, Williamson 21*) trail India 318 (Vijay 65, Pujara 62, Jadeja 42*, Boult 3-67, Santner 3-94) by 247 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details
New Zealand made a solid start to their first innings of the Test series, moving to 71 for 1 by lunch on the second day in reply to India’s 318. They lost Martin Guptill, who played his shots in a 31-ball 21, but otherwise looked comfortable and batted with intent on a pitch that was not yet offering any undue help to the spinners.
At the crease at lunch were Tom Latham, batting on 25, and Kane Williamson on 21. R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja bowled 14 of the 21 overs India sent down, but were still wicketless, and still searching for the ideal pace and length to bowl on this Green Park surface.
Williamson, as expected, had a clear plan; he sat on the back …
