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September 27, 2016

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India toasts victory

INDIA'S 500th test match ended in victory celebrations yesterday as it romped to a 197-run triumph in the series opener against New Zealand, with Ravichandran Ashwin taking six wickets.

New Zealand resumed its second innings on 93 for four at the start of the fifth and final day in pursuit of an unlikely 434-run victory target, but was bowled out shortly after lunch for 236. Ashwin, who took his 19th five-wicket haul in tests, and left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja shared 16 wickets between them in the match to flatten the New Zealand batting at Kanpur's Green Park. The lanky off-spinner, who also became the second fastest bowler of all time to claim 200 test wickets, got Neil Wagner leg before for nought to end with overall match figures of 10-225.




 

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