Summary:
Kanpur, Nov 28 (PTI) The declaration may have come a tad too late owing to the team management"s assessment of the Green Park pitch as unresponsive but debutant Shreyas Iyer backed his spinners to secure an Indian victory on the final day of the opening Test.
India declared their second innings at 234 for seven, having extended their overall lead to 283 runs on the fourth and penultimate day of the match.
In the four overs that were possible before bad light forced an early stumps, R Ashwin dismissed Will Young to leave the Kiwis at four for one and with an improbable task of chasing down a record score in the country since the West Indies" 276 for five way back in 1987.
"To be honest, there wasn"t much happening on the wicket.
We needed to get to a competitive total, maybe around 275-280," Iyer said at the end of the day"s play.
Iyer followed up his first-innings century with a 65 in the second to signal his arrival on the Test arena with a bang.