Scoreboard

INDIA

First innings

P Shaw b Southee ......................................... 16 M Agarwal c Jamieson b Boult ............. 34 C Pujara c Watling b Jamieson ............... 11 V Kohli c Taylor b Jamieson ...................... 2 A Rahane not out ......................................... 38 H Vihari c Watling b Jamieson ................. 7 R Pant not out ................................................ 10 Extras (1lb, 3w) .................................................. 4 Total (for 5 wkts, 55 overs) ................... 122 Fall: 16 (Shaw), 35 (Pujara), 40 (Kohli), 88 (Agarwal), 101 (Vihari). Bowling: T Southee 14-4-27-1, T Boult 14-2-44-1, C de Grandhomme 11-5-12-0, K Jamieson 14-2-38-3 (2w), A Patel 2-2-0-0.

He could barely stay out of the game as India limped to 122-5 when the rain intervened. Ajinkya Rahane was the only visiting batsman standing firm on 38 off 122 balls as the Black Caps seized control.

Watched by father Michael who flew down from Auckland for the occasion, the 25-year-old donned his first black test cap after captain Kane Williamson won the toss and gave his bowlers first use of a nice, green Basin strip on an overcast Wellington day.

Bowling first change and replacing Boult, Jamieson struck midway through his third over with a gem to remove one of India’s batting dangermen, Pujara. The pinpoint delivery straightened off the seam and Pujara (11 off 42 balls) edged to wicketkeeper BJ Watling.

Then came the prized wicket for any bowler the world over.

He welcomed Kohli with a looping bouncer then found his line again. Facing just his seventh delivery, Kohli (2) pushed at a wider one moving slightly away, and Ross Taylor clung on to a fingertip catch at first slip in his 100th test.

Jamieson punched the air and roared in celebration as Kohli trudged off, India reduced to 40-3

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after Tim Southee opener Prithvi Shaw.

Bowling at around 130kmh, Jamieson extracted sometimes alarming bounce and attacked an

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snared impeccable line, the ball nipping just enough and occasionally swinging away.

He bowled an eight-over spell after lunch as Williamson’s go-to man, and snared Hanuma Vihari (7) to another genuine edge, gloveman Watling diving and grabbing an excellent catch.

Jamieson was confirmed for his test debut after frontliner Neil Wagner remained in Tauranga with wife Lana for the birth of daughter Olivia who arrived on Thursday.

Five years earlier, Jamieson snared his first first-class wicket at the Basin, that of Wellington batsman Stephen Murdoch, after he went wicketless on debut for Canterbury.