Scorecard
displayed improved footwork that saw him drive elegantly as the likes of Trent Boult (2/89) and Colin de Grandhomme (0/31) were guilty of over-pitching in trying to get some swing.
There were square drives and a few on-drives while he also played and missed a few. He did live dangerously but more importantly had the scoreboard ticking even when Pujara was stuck at the other end.
Neil Wagner bowled a bouncer and Shaw hooked him for maximum to reach his half-century. Having added 50 runs with Pujara, the senior partner should have ideally calmed the inexperienced one, who instead of playing for lunch, lunged at a fuller delivery from Jamieson to be brilliantly caught by Latham.
Kohli’s poor tour just got worse when Tim Southee (2/38) got one to shape in slightly finding him plumb in-front. Ajinkya Rahane jabbed with limited footwork as Pujara looked more assured about his off-stump even as he hit occasional drives but mostly holding one end up.
It was Vihari, who changed the course by counter-attacking the trio of Boult, Southee and Wagner in quick time. When Pujara was on 49, Vihari was on 13 and by the time he got out for 55, having hit 10 boundaries, India’s number three was on 53.
Vihari looked comfortably against Wagner as he played a slash over point to complete his fifty and then another pull-shot off the very next delivery. But Vihari played one shot too many as Wagner bowled a slow bouncer to take him out.
Once India came out to bat after tea, Jamieson changed the tactic from bowling fuller to his usual back of the length line that could create disconcerting bounce or the batsmen.
Pujara got a good bouncer and there was no balance while going for the pull shot. The innings was in total disarray and it was another day where the stars promised a lot but delivered little.
P Shaw c Latham b Jamieson M Agarwal lbw b Boult
C Pujara c †Watling b Jamieson
54 V Kohli (c) lbw b Southee 3 A Rahane c Taylor b Southee 7 H Vihari c †Watling b Wagner 55 R Pant b Jamieson 12 R Jadeja c Boult b Jamieson 9 U Yadav c †Watling b Jamieson 0 Mohammed Shami b Boult 16 J Bumrah not out 10
Extras (b-4, lb-6, w-5) Total (all out in 63 overs) 54
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15 242
FOW: 1-30, 2-80, 3-85, 4-113, 5-194, 6-197, 7-207, 8-207, 9-216
Bowling: T Southee 13-5-38-2, T Boult 17-2-89-2, C de Grandhomme 9-2-31-0, K Jamieson 14-3-45-5, N Wagner 10-2-29-1
T Latham not out T Blundell not out Extras (b-4, lb-3) Total (for no loss, 23 overs) FOW: 6-88, 7-91, 8-103, 9-121 Bowling: J Bumrah 7-1-19-0, U Yadav 8-1-20-0, M Shami 7-1-17-0, R Jadeja 1-1-0-0.
27 29
7 63