India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: That's the kind of day this is. The crowd has now quietened back down as well as reality slowly sets in. Chances of anything happening today are as bleak as they come.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: No really, there is no drizzle at the moment either. Officials are walking around with folded umbrellas. No activity on the covers or the outfield though. Some members of the crowd seem to be egging the ground staff to go do something. Starting to get quite lively out there.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: It is no longer the heavy rain that we were seeing yesterday but even slight drizzles are enough to make cricket impossible and that is what we have here. Rain has quietened down for a long while but there is a persistent drizzle that has never stopped. Anybody who knows Bengaluru would tell you that this is typical of the city at this time of the year.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: You may have noticed that we have serenely gone past the start time of the second session with absolutely no indication that play is going to start any time soon. Needless to say, start of the second session has been delayed. The next significant update normally tends to be of the day being washed out but let's wait and watch.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: You may remember that Pakistan decided to drop their biggest stars so as to give them a rest during this Test series ahead of important white-ball tours of Australia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. No better way to keep your best players motivated, after all, than to "rest" them for arguably the biggest Test series their country is hosting all year so that they stay fit for limited overs series. The man replacing Babar, Kamran Ghulam, has scored 118 in 224 balls. For the not-so-regular cricket follower outside Pakistan, Ghulam was famous for other reasons before this one.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: Well there it is. Grab your lunch boxes and get a hot cup of tea or coffee for yourself after it because Lunch has been taken. And considering just how bad the forecast is, it is doubtful if we will see anything after Lunch either.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: A miserable Saba Karim is standing at the Chinnaswamy with a mic in one hand and an umbrella in the other and says that there is persistent rain but it is slowly getting brighter.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: But not in the way you would like. Virat Kohli and Yashasvi Jaiswal are done with their knocks in the indoor nets and are now making their way back to the dressing room. That might just be the signal that Lunch has been taken but we will wait for official word. Meanwhile, the smattering of crowd here in Bengaluru cheer for their beloved former RCB captain. It is quite incredible that people have come to the stadium despite the water-logged roads and the knowledge that there might be no play at all today.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: Well it was all starting to look quite good. There was activity on the covers, the officials were having a chat at the boundary. And then the rain came back. Back to square one.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: This is what the Indian met department had to say about the depression over the Bay of Bengal. In situations like these it does important to remember that there are bigger things happening out there than cricket. Stay safe folks!

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: Word from the middle is that the rain has reduced to a drizzle now, steadily decreasing. The covers remain unmoved, the thinking seems to be to remove them only when the rain stops. As stated earlier, the excellent drainage system in Chinnaswamy means that play can start even if there is about an hour of no rain.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: New Zealand and Bangladesh are two very different teams, so are England or Australia, or West Indies and Sri Lanka and South Africa. And yet, they all meet the same fate when they play in India. That has been the case for the past 12 years, at least. Rohit Sharma's explanation here might provide some insights as to how India maintain this consistency.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: Well we can see Yashasvi Jaiswal walking around the ground with assistant coach Abhishek Nayar. Virat Kohli is also out there. Officials are accompanying them carrying huge beach umbrellas over their heads. They are all probably making their way to the indoor nets.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: Looking back, it doesn't look like much of a surprise that India lost the 2021 WTC Final to New Zealand. They had a fast bowling lineup of Trent Boult, Tim Southee, Kyle Jamieson and Colin de Grandhomme, all at the peak of their powers. Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor made the Indian pacers sweat in the humidity of the Ageas Bowl. Since then, though things have taken a turn for the worse for the Kiwis. They have won just eight of the 23 Tests they have played, lost 12 and drawn three. India, on the other hand, have won 18 out of the 30 they have played since, lost eight and drawn four.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: The only sounds are those of the rain. Members of the team management of both sides can be seen on the dressing room balconies but not the players. In fact it doesn't look like the players have even made the trip to the stadium yet.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: The BlackCaps twitter handle has given us a good picture of how it looks at the ground. It doesn't look good, to say the least.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: The obvious has been made official at long last. The BCCI has tweeted out that toss has been delayed due to rain. Utterly pouring at the Chinnaswamy and so there is no update on if and when an inspection might take place. We are in for a long, long wait folks.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: It's pouring again and the only thing remaining is for an official update of the toss being delayed. One does wonder why that announcement hasn't been made yet, it is probably the only obvious thing at the moment about this match. It is to be noted that the Chinnaswamy is not the Green Park, there are some excellent drainage facilities and so even an hour's break from the rain would be enough for the conditions to be favourable for play.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: Mohammed Shami hasn't played any cricket since the 2023 World Cup final, tending to an Achilles tendon injury that necessitated a right heel surgery in London in February. It was all going smoothly and it looked like Shami could return to action in this series, until it all went wrong.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: It is proper rain at the moment at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. Toss is likely to be delayed. In fact we could even say that there will be no cricket at all in the first session.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: Virat Kohli is just 53 runs away from getting to 9000 Test runs. He would become the fourth Indian player to do so after Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: The Indian captain thinks that the team has something special in their hands in the form of Jaiswal. Rohit and Jaiswal have formed an opening pair that is as potent as anything in the world at the moment.

"The guy has got real talent," Rohit said of Jaiswal. "He has got the game to play in all sorts of conditions. Obviously, very new to international cricket, so very hard to judge right now. But he has got all the ingredients for success at this level.

"What he has shown us in this brief period of time, you can bet on him and expect him to do wonders for the team. He has come through the ranks. He has played a lot of domestic cricket, Under-19 cricket. And obviously, has succeeded as well. That is why he is right now playing for India."

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: To say that Yashasvi Jaiswal has made a good start to his Test career, or career in general, would be an understatement. He has scored a whopping 1217 runs thus far in just 11 Tests, averaging 64.05 and striking at 71.67. Jaiswal has scored three centuries and seven half-centuries. Virat Kohli has hit 27 sixes in the 115 Tests that he has played in the past 12 years. Jaiswal has already hit 32 sixes in his 11-Test career.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: New Zealand have played 36 Test matches in India, with the first being hosted in Hyderabad in November 1955. In all these years, they have just four wins to boast about and none in the last 36 years.

The last time they won in India was in November 1988 at the Wankhede Stadium, beating the hosts by 136 runs. John Bracewell, uncle of Michael Bracewell who is in the New Zealand squad for the first Test in Bengaluru, was the player of the match for his all-round performance. John Wright, who would go on to be a beloved head coach of the Indian team, was New Zealand's captain while Dilip Vengsarkar led an Indian side that included Krisnamachari Srikkanth, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Mohammed Azharuddin, Ravi Shastri and Kapil Dev. Among the other prominent names in the New Zealand squad was the great Richard Hadlee and Ian Smith and Danny Morrison, both of whom are now beloved by fans in India and around the world for their commentary.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: It has been 12 years since India last played New Zealand in a Test match at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. A young Virat Kohli scored his second Test century in the first innings and an unbeaten half-century in the second as India won a thrilling Test by five wickets.

New Zeland batted first and captain Ross Taylor's 113 off 127 balls took them to a score of 365, with Pragyan Ojha taking five wickets for India. Tim Southee then took seven wickets for New Zealand as Kohli's century and half-centuries from captain MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina took India to within 12 runs of New Zealand's first innings total. Ravichandran Ashwin, who had scored an unbeaten 32 in 40 balls in India's first innings, then took five wickets as New Zealand were all out for 248 runs, giving the hosts a target of 261 to chase. Kohli scored an unbeaten 51 in 82 balls while Cheteshwar Pujara scored 48 in India's second innings. Dhoni was unbeaten on 48 off 60 as his 96-run stand with Kohli took India over the line.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: Schools being shut due to rain in a city that is scheduled to host a Test match is never good news for said Test match. To make matters worse, the Indian met department predicts for the entire week and so it is not just the first couple of days of this match that is threatened by the weather.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: New Zealand historically don't have a good history in India. They are not helped on this tour by the fact that they had a terrible buildup to it. They are coming into the series on the back of a 2-0 loss against Sri Lanka, where they lost 37 of their 40 wickets to spinners. It would be an understatement to say that facing India in India is far bigger a challenge than facing Sri Lanka at their home, despite the latter's recent good run in Tests.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: This isn't the first time rain has threatened a match in the home run India are on for the WTC final.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: Devon Conway, Tom Latham(c), Will Young, Kane Williamson, Michael Bracewell, Daryl Mitchell, Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Tom Blundell(w), Mark Chapman, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Matt Henry, Jacob Duffy, Ajaz Patel, William ORourke

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: Rohit Sharma(c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant(w), Ravindra Jadeja, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep

India vs New Zealand Live Score 1st Test Day 1: It was pouring cats and dogs and all other types of animals yesterday in Bengaluru and so it remains to be seen as to how much cricket we will have today. The stadium has world class drainage facilities, which is a positive, but there is little even those can do little in the face of torrential rainfall. Stay tuned for more updates!

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