"He [Kohli] is one of the best players in the world…no doubt about that," Trent Boult remarked.

"Obviously, he is a big player for them and we just tried to put enough pressure on him, keep him quiet and soak up those boundary balls. It was nice to see him make a few errors. We were lucky to get two that lined up and hit him on the pads nicely and it was a good feeling to see the back of him," added Boult.

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India squandered the chance of a significant lead as Kyle Jamieson (49) continued to be the scourge of the visitors with both bat and ball. But Jasprit Bumrah (3-62), Mohammed Shami (4-81) and Ravindra Jadeja (2-22) did well to dismiss the Kiwis for 235, far less than the hosts would settle for. But the Indian batsmen couldn't thrive on the fine work by the bowling unit and ended the day with 90 for six.

"See, we don't play the blame game. In our (team) culture, we don't look at blaming anyone. Some days if, as a bowling unit, we don't pick up wickets then that doesn't give the batsmenliberty to take our case, isn't it?, said Bumrah after the day on which 16 wickets fell.

"We, as a team, want to push hard and do well but the situation is what it is. We have two batsmen left and we would look to push tomorrow as well. We can try and work hard, score as many runs as we can and we'll see how it goes," said Bumrah, who is playing his first series against New Zealand.

9.5
Virat Kohli's average in the NZ Test series

Brief scores
India 242 & 90-6 (C Pujara 24, H Vihari 5', R Pant 1'; T Boult 3-12) v New Zealand 235 (T Latham 52, K Jamieson 49; M Shami 4-81, J Bumrah 3-62, R Jadeja 2-22)

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