IND vs NZ Kanpur Test LIVE: Injured Ishant Sharma off the field, New Zealand 17/1; Team India need 9 wickets to win
New Zealand's name for playing the most overs in the fourth innings at Green Park, 45 years ago, was batting 117 overs.

The play between India and New Zealand continues on the 5th day of the first test at Kanpur. Team India has given a target of 284 runs to New Zealand to win the Kanpur Test. Chasing the target, NZ's score is 17 runs for the loss of 1 wicket. Tom Latham-William Somerville at the crease.Ishant Sharma got injured on the very first ball of the 5th day. Actually, Tom Latham steals a single off Ashwin towards fine leg. Ishant Sharma injured his finger while trying to stop the ball by diving and later walked out of the field.
New Zealand's name for playing the most overs in the fourth innings at Green Park, 45 years ago, was batting 117 overs.You will be surprised to know that the figure of 280 has never been changed on Indian soil till date.
The figure above two hundred has been chased on Indian grounds only twice. 1987 West Indies won the match by scoring 276 runs in Delhi. At the same time, in 1972, England scored 208 runs for 4 wickets in Delhi itself and defeated India.In New Zealand's second innings, the wicket of opener Will Young (2) fell in a strange way. On the last ball of the second over, Ashwin appealed for LBW against Will and the umpire too without delay declared the Kiwi opener out. Young took the review by talking to his partner Tom Latham, but by the time he signaled to take the review, his time was up. Replays clearly showed that the ball was leaving the leg stump. Young was not out. Umpire Virender Sharma had made a big mistake.
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