Indian cricket group star batter Virat Kohli equalled an embarrassing file after he was dismissed for a duck on Day 2 of the primary Check match towards New Zealand in Bengaluru on Thursday. Kohli has been struggling to attain large within the latest previous and his fortunes didn’t change as he was dismissed by Will O’Rourke with out scoring a single run. It was a wanting size supply from the quick bowler that flew off Kohli’s gloves and Glenn Phillips was in a position to full a very good catch at leg gully. This was Kohli’s thirty eighth worldwide duck – essentially the most for any lively cricketer together with New Zealand’s Tim Southee. India skipper Rohit Sharma is third within the undesirable checklist with 33 geese.

Earlier, India captain Rohit Sharma gained the toss and elected to bat towards New Zealand within the rain-truncated opening Check on Thursday.

India made two modifications with Sarfaraz Khan changing an injured Shubman Gill, who was not “100 per cent” in line with the skipper, and Kuldeep Yadav changing seamer Akash Deep as a 3rd spinner.

“Shubman Gill was unavailable for number of the primary Check resulting from a neck stiffness,” the Indian group administration knowledgeable after the toss.

The primary day’s play was washed out resulting from persistent rain.

India and New Zealand will play two extra Checks, at Pune from October 24-28 and at Mumbai from November 1-5.

Groups:

India: Rohit Sharma (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj

New Zealand: Tom Latham (c), Devon Conway, Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Blundell (wk), Glenn Phillips, Matt Henry, Tim Southee, Ajaz Patel, William O’Rourke.