New Zealand bowled out India for 462 runs in the last session of the fourth day of the first Test match of the three-match series on Saturday. Now New Zealand needs 107 runs to win. For India, Sarfaraz Khan contributed 150 runs while Rishabh Pant contributed 99 runs. Both of them made a partnership of 177 runs for the fourth wicket and brought India back in the match. But after taking the new ball, New Zealand made a strong comeback and lost their last six wickets within just 29 runs. All these wickets were taken by fast bowlers.

When the fourth day's play started, an important partnership was seen between Sarfaraz Khan and Rishabh Pant. Due to this, the Indian team had put pressure on New Zealand at one time.

Sarfraz scored his first Test century.

Sarfaraz Khan scored the first century of his Test career against New Zealand. In the second innings, he played an important innings of 150 runs in 195 balls for India. He also got a lot of support from Rishabh Pant. Sarfaraz and Pant did not give the New Zealand bowlers a chance to dominate during their partnership of 177 runs in 211 balls for the fourth wicket.

Rishabh Pant missed out on scoring a century

.Rishabh Pant had a chance to score a brilliant century in the second innings of the first match of the 3-match Test series against New Zealand. In which he missed scoring a century by just 1 run. With this, he became the second Indian wwicketkeeper-batsmanto be out on 99 runs. Before him, Mahendra Singh Dhoni was also run out on 99 runs in the Nagpur Test against England in 2012.