Ashwin six-for wraps up 197-run win

India 318 (Vijay 65, Pujara 62, Boult 3-67, Santner 3-94) and 377 for 5 dec (Pujara 78, Vijay 76, Rohit 68*, Jadeja 50*) beat New Zealand 262 (Williamson 75, Latham 58, Jadeja 5-73, Ashwin 4-93) and 236 (Ronchi 80, Santner 71, Ashwin 6-132) by 197 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details

R Ashwin picked up his 19th five-wicket haul as India wrapped up a 197-run win in their 500th Test match. Needing six wickets at the start of the fifth day, India endured a wicketless first hour as Luke Ronchi and Mitchell Santner stretched their fifth-wicket stand to 102, but the wickets came quickly thereafter. The win arrived 43 minutes after lunch when Ashwin had Neil Wagner lbw with a carom ball. Chasing a nominal 434, New Zealand had been bowled out for 236.

Ashwin finished with innings figures of 6 for 132 and match figures of 10 for 225 in 66.2 overs. Bowling with a callus in the middle finger of his bowling hand, he used the carrom ball frequently after lunch, possibly because he was finding it difficult to grip the offbreak. He took two wickets with it – of Wagner and Ish Sodhi, who walked across his stumps to get bowled around his legs – but the big breakthrough came with a big-spinning offbreak, pitching outside Santner’s leg stump and turning across him to force an edge to gully.

It ended a hugely impressive performance from Santner, who faced 179 balls in the innings and 286 in the match in addition to bowling 55.2 overs of left-arm spin and picking up five wickets.

Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja did the bulk of the bowling, sending down all but 18 overs of New Zealand’s innings, which lasted 87.3 overs, and 134.2 of the 183.2 overs India bowled in …

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