Andrew Alderson: Black Caps earn one of their best wins on day five of first test in Bengaluru

New Zealand have held their nerve to record one of their best wins in almost 95 years of test cricket.

The loss of their skipper from the second ball of the fifth day didn’t worry the tourists, nor the probing of a fearsome Indian attack buoyed by a frenzied atmosphere in Bengaluru.

Instead, two players with a combined 25 tests’ experience coolly and methodically worked their way towards a 107-run target to secure an eight-wicket victory, the Black Caps’ third from 37 matches in India.

Will Young (48no) and Rachin Ravindra (39no)survived a new ball that was seaming and swinging then negated a deteriorating pitch offering variable turn, seeing off a unit boasting three of the top six-ranked bowlers in the world.

And they did it with barely a scare – one batter in the team only owing to an injury for Kane Williamson and the other playing his first test in the city of his parents’ birth.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ryan, Yes, bring the cut back to Auckland and compete here, Ryan, certainly,
I think the money would be well invested. Team New
Zealand come up with a winning plan and be successful
in using that money here. No to the America's cut
returning here, money would be better spent and our health
system says lou Andrew Orison's here was sport Good Morning.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Gritting's Ryan got a view on that. I'd be surprised
if it comes back here.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Why because of the cost and because of the viewers.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, and I think they've they seem pretty settled in
being able to have it in Barcelona or maybe it
goes through the field to I know, Saudi Arabia or
something like that.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yeah. Right, so that's where the real money.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Is, some serious money there.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
We're going to talk black Goirl. We're gonna talk to
Peter Montgomery about that just before sex right now.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Very good, great to hear from PJ.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
The White Ferns are facing South Africa in the T
twenty World Cup final right now.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
They are the last report. They just got the key
wickets in New Zealand of Laura Wolvart, who is the
Protears skipper, and they were fifty nine for two, so
they have in the tenth over, so they're chasing one
hundred and sixty to win. He's going to put some
breaks on the South Africans and I think they're looking
pretty promising. To be honest, I think that when neither

(01:13):
of these teams ever won a World coming in, Australia
always dominated. But this is an outstanding display from News,
particularly coming into the tournament having lost ten in a row.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Ten in a row.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, I've turned it around. I mean all bit tough
opposition Australia in England, but to some of the younger
players coming through and Amelia Kerr today showing her experience
forty three or thirty eight key partnership of fifty seven
for the fourth wicket with Brooklidate.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Stupid question, So this is the teacher the World Cup Final?
It is? We've lost the last ten games. How did
we get to.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Know into the final leading into the tournament? Sorry so no,
just to clarify, lost ten and the final is low here.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Hey Liam Lawson racing in Formula one this morning.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yes, indeed, so that's something we've all been looking forward
to for a while for the Racing Bulls team frothing
at he's got the accelerator down, has he reaving? So yeah,
that's going to be exciting in the in the US.
So we wait and see as to how I think
he's been back back to about twentieth on the grid
though you do a penalty or something of that nature.

(02:22):
So we'll have to see how he can fear and
there's you know, weaving his way through the field. But
exciting none the less. He's got these what six Grand
Prix and also a couple more sprint races. I think
finished sixteenth, was it in the first sprint anyway yesterday
and now we'll get to see the main event.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Very good. We might skip the what happened with the
black Caps beating India.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, that's a monumental feat that one. I mean third
time in thirty seven attempts away against India and just
hearing through two that South Africa was lost a third
wicket well as well in the finals. So yeah, dramatic
scenes and dubay at the moment. But yeah, over in Bengalaru,
New Zealand winning with the Yeah, I think just a

(03:05):
tremendous showing. Really eight wicket victory dominated India and that
opening test. Still the Holy Grail never won a series
in India. Two tests to come, we'll see how they
had unfind of these cup.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Full night, I went to the AUCKLANDFC game. It was fun.
Ninety minutes is a long time.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Isn't it where you're coming from. But yeah it was.
It was fair, yeah, yeah, and good to get a
win on the board for them in their opening opening fixture.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah about it, Andrew, thank you very much for that.
Andrew Ortison was sport for more.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
From early edition with Ryan Bridge.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
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