Indian cricket group star batter Virat Kohli equalled an embarrassing report 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 current 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 listing with 33 geese.

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

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

“Shubman Gill was unavailable for collection of the primary Check attributable to a neck stiffness,” the Indian group administration knowledgeable after the toss.

The primary day’s play was washed out attributable to 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.