India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: He has knocked the New Zealand captain over! The fifth ball went through with the angle and hit Latham on the pad, Sarfaraz took the ball on the full and India appealed but the umpire shakes his head. The next ball is almost identical except that it turns away from Latham just a touch. The New Zealand captain plays the same defence, it beats the edge and takes the off stump. Sundar runs off in celebration.

Latham b Washington Sundar 28 (44)

New Zealand 59/2 in 16 overs

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: Young dances down the track first ball of the 15th over and blasts it with the turn down the ground. Gets to the pitch of it perfectly and gets the full results for his efforts. Two more runs that over, last of which came off a leading edge off Latham. Young is in 24 off 43, Lathan on 28 off 38.

New Zealand 59/1 in 15 overs

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: New Zealand will be quite happy with how things have gone thus far. Latham and Young are red, their shirts are sticking to their bodies and their teammates have brought out a beach umbrella for them. It is extremely hot and humid in Mumbai today. But New Zealand have ensured they lose just one wicket in the first half of this session and since then, there has hardly been any kind of big risk for the batters. Ashwin continues after that, Akash Deep was taken off after bowling his fifth over, Washington Sundar was brought on for that final over before drinks. Young on 14 off 32, Latham on 22 off 31.

New Zealand 43/1 in 12 overs

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: Both of those by Will Young and they were almost identical shots as well. Akash Deep gives some width second ball and Young opens the face of the bat and sends it between point and gully. Three dot balls and then once again a shortish wide ball that Young sends between point and gully once again. Young is on 11 off 28 balls, Latham on 20 off 22 balls.

New Zealand 37/1 in 10 overs

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: Ashwin to bowl the first over of the spi in the eighth over of this innings. He has had a very poor innings, by any standard, not just his lofty one. Latham is looking good, he is on 18 off 20. Worryingly for India, Will Young has also negotiated the pacers well, sitting solid on 3 off 18.

New Zealand 27/1 in 8 overs

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: Lots of seam movement now for Siraj and Deep. A tight leave from Young first ball of the sixth from Akash Deep, it brushes his back pad before going over the stumps the wicketkeeper after seaming in sharply. Second one is wider and moves in as well and the third moves away, Young's outside edge beaten. The fourth hits the pad but outside the line, the batters run a leg bye. Latham with a single next ball, he is on 12 off 12, Young on one off 14.

New Zealand 19/1 in 6 overs

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: Another appeal for LBW against Conway, this time the umpire gives it. Tom Latham tells Conway to take the review and the batter does it. It looks like Conway was quite convinced that he was gone though as he starts walking well before the replays show three reds. Second ball of the fourth over from Akash Deep, it was full and seams in a lot. It misses the inside edge and hits him on his back pad. Plumb in front.

Conway lbw b Akash Deep 4 (11)

New Zealand 12/1 in 3.2 overs

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: Siraj with a juicy half volley fourth ball of the third over and Conway drives it down the ground for a four. A handsome shot that. Huge appeal for LBW off the last ball, the umpire doesn't give it. Conway had got some bat on it.

New Zealand 12/0 in 3 overs

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: Akash Deep bowls the second over. Latham leaves the first two balls, a short appeal for LBW off the third, the hooter goes off for no ball instead. Latham leaves the next ball as well outside off. Then there is an edge! It goes between slip and gully. Then Akash Deep gets the last two balls to angle into the pads, Latham tucks one away for a single and Conway takes one on the pad, the delivery going well wide.

New Zealand 7/0 in 2 overs

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: Siraj with a straight delivery on length first up, Latham tucks it away for a single. Dot balls after that throughout to Conway. No seam movement yet.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: All right here we go. A fairly long huddle for the Indian team and so Tom Latham and Devon Conway are out there waiting for a while before the fielding side walks in. Mohammed Siraj to bowl the first over, Latham on strike.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: The only change India has made is leaving Bumrah out. The BCCI has said that he was unavailable for selection today.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: How about this for Mitch Santner. He was not selected for the first Test, destroyed India in the second and now sits out in the third. Latham says that Matt Henry has come in for Tim Southee. That means New Zealand have a much weaker lower order in this Test.

New Zealand: Tom Latham(c), Devon Conway, Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Blundell(w), Glenn Phillips, Ish Sodhi, Matt Henry, Ajaz Patel, William O' Rourke

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: Rohit Sharma says that Jasprit Bumrah has been left out as he is unwell. India still have three spinners and two pacers.

India XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), Sarfaraz Khan, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: Tom Latham has won the toss, New Zealand choose to bat first. That is potentially a big advantage already for the Kiwis.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: All right Rohit Sharma and Tom Latham have walked out. Rohit is sweating already in that blazer, that is how humid it is in Mumbai. We can hear the sound of the horns of local trains running between Marine Lines and Churchgate. Ravi Shastri is ready to make thr stadium shake with his voice. Here we go!

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: Or that is what it seems judging by what happened at practice yesterday where Bumrah was the only Indian player who wasn't present.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: Karthik and Kartik on the pitch report today. Dinesh Karthik says that there will be a bit of turn at the start, will get better to bat on as the day progresses. However, it will get more difficult to bat in the subsequent days. “If the team winning the toss doesn't bat first, I'd be very surprised,” he says.

Murali Kartik says that there is superficial grass on it which might help the fast bowlers as well. It will also make the spin quicker. Win the toss and bat first is the way to go.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: We can see Gautam Gambhir checking out the pitch. Mumbai boys Sarfaraz and Jaiswal are doing their sprints with each other, as was senior Mumbai boy Rohit Sharma albeit some distance away from them. Rohit has now walked back in, presumably to get into his Test whites and blazer.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: Ravichandran Ashwin has taken 38 wickets at the Wankhede Stadium in Test cricket. He is tied with Anil Kumble at the top of the list of bowlers with most Test wickets here although Ashwin has played four innings lesser than the former India captain. Axar Patel, meanwhile, has a whopping 14 wickets in the one Test he played here in 2021 which was also against New Zealand. Ravindra Jadeja has also played just that one game at the Wankhede and he took six wickets.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: Rohit's first, and thus far last, appearance at the Wankhede was the second match of his 63-Test career. That match, held from November 14 to 16, 2013, is better remembered as the one where Sachin Tendulkar bid goodbye to international cricket. Hence, the fact that Rohit scored a masterful 111 not out off 127 balls, or that Cheteshwar Pujara made 113 in 167 balls, was forgotten. What is remembered is Tendulkar's 74 and the stunningly emotional scenes after the match, something that is seldom seen in any game of cricket.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: Rohit Sharma is "Mumbaicha raja", according to the fans here. There would be few players in the world more familiar with conditions at the Wankhede in limited overs cricket than Rohit but there would be quite a few more familiar than him with this stadium Test cricket. That is because Rohit has played just one Test before at his domestic home ground.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: Virat Kohli has the most runs at the Wankhede Stadium among the current lot of players. He has scored 469 runs in eight innings at 58.62 with three fifties and a century

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: There were lines drawn from the off stump and leg stump, huge and long team huddles and truck loads of net bowlers as a wounded India prepared for this Test. There have been instances of training sessions not being mandatory during Test series, particularly before the final match of a home series as India tend to have wrapped it all up by this point. Nothing of that sort this time. Every player attended all of the training sessions. The batters were trying sweep shots everywhere. The lines helped them identify which ball to attack. Rohit Sharma and Gautam Gambhir have said in the days since the defeat in the second Test that nothing has changed for India but the nets sessions in Mumbai speak otherwise.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: Gautam Gambhir said in his press conference yesterday that maintaining the ability to defend with soft hands has become a challenge for batters in the wake of T20 cricket. "We need to defend better," Gambhir said. "I think that is something which is important. And especially on a turning track. Because if you've got confidence on your defence, a lot of things can be sorted. And that is something which we need to keep getting better, keep working on.

"Because, again, I'll keep going back to the same answer that a lot has to do with limited over-cricket and T20 cricket as well that when you're so used to muscling the ball, that you end up forgetting the soft hands and all that stuff, which probably used to happen eight or 10 years back. So that is something, that is why I said that a complete cricketer is a cricketer who plays T20 format really successfully and also the Test cricket really successfully. He can adapt his game. And that is what growth is."

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: The world was quite a different place the last time, and only time, India were whitewashed at home. That was a two-match Test series against South Africa with Allan Donald and Shaun Pollock leading the way in powering the Proteas to victories in the first Test at the Wankhede and the second at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. Apart from this, India have lost a one-off Test to England - which was dubbed the Golden Jubilee Test, in February 1980 at the Wankhede Stadium and that is pretty much as far as whitewashes in bilateral Test series goes for India in India.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: The Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad may have taken over as the biggest spectacle in the country due to the sheer size of it but the romance of the Wankhede Stadium will always be one of a kind for Indian fans. It is where Sachin Tendulkar played his last Test, the stadium he called his home. It is where India won the 2011 World Cup. And well, it is the scene of numerous great IPL matches. Before all that, though, it was one of India's most frequent Test venues. That has changed in recent years though, with the BCCI awarding Test matches to smaller cities more often than the traditional centres like the Wankhede. The last time India hosted a team for a Test at the Wankhede was also New Zealand. Ajaz Patel took all 10 wickets in the Indian first innings but the hosts won by 372 runs.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: India lost the second Test on a turner. It seems they have now asked for one that would turn even more at the Wankhede Stadium. Let's face it, the real reason why India couldn't win in Pune was that their two premier spinners were not in the races, which allowed New Zealand's batters to perform better than the hosts' batters. If the same remains the case here, well, the unthinkable as already happened in this series, who is to say it won't happen again.

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: Tom Latham(c), Devon Conway, Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Blundell(w), Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Ajaz Patel, William O'Rourke, Jacob Duffy, Ish Sodhi, Matt Henry, Mark Chapman

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), Sarfaraz Khan, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Akash Deep, Jasprit Bumrah, Axar Patel, Dhruv Jurel, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, KL Rahul

India vs New Zealand Live Score 3rd Test, Day 1: Most fans of working age today may have been in school when India last entered the final Test of a home series having already lost it. Those fans would've been even younger than that the last time India were whitewashed by a side at home. Rohit Sharma and Co. are looking to avoid both of these firsts. Stay tuned for more updates!

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