IND vs NZ 1st Test Live Score: Bumrah departs, India nine wickets down on 40

Bumrah is OUT now!!! 40/9 are India after opting to bat first!!! What's happening in Bengaluru? Who predicted this at the start?

Rishabh Pant is OUT!! Matt Henry has dismissed him now!! India are in a mess in Bengaluru! 39/8. Can they cross the 50-run mark? Wow!!

Ashwin is OUT!!! What's happening? First ball after lunch and India have lost their seventh wicket. 34/7

Ravichandran Ashwin has come out to bat and Rishabh Pant also resumes India's innings with him. India desperately need a partnership or they could fold inside 50 or 100 in the first inning. A huge half an hour post lunch.

India have lost three more wickets in the second hour and are staring down the barrel as far as the batting innings is concerned. India lost KL Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja's wickets in quick succession before breaking for lunch as New Zealand pacers have their tails up. 

India - 34/6 (23.5 overs)

KL Rahul has been dismissed for a duck and India continue to sink further down in the dumps on Day 2 of the Bengaluru Test match against New Zealand. Batting at six, Rahul poked at the leg-angling delivery tamely and was caught behind by the wicketkeeper.

Ravindra Jadeja is the latest casualty as Matt Henry gets the better of him. India are 34/6 now.

New Zealand's catching has been spot-on today. Yashasvi Jaiswal goes hard at a William O'Rourke delivery and Ajaz Patel took a neat catch diving low to his left at backward point and India have gifted New Zealand a wicket.

A massive drop!! Rishabh Pant has been dropped by wicketkeeper Tom Blundell. Will Pant make them pay for this?

Play to resume at 11:05 AM. Lunch has been pushed to 12 PM

The rain has interrupted play in Bengaluru in the 13th over and might be a good thing for the Indian batters, as it has been an abject performance with the bat from the hosts. Can break rejuvenate their plans?

What a blinder of a catch from Devon Conway! A screamer no less! It wasn't a bad shot from Sarfaraz Khan but the bat turned in his hands as he looked to play through long-off and Conway at mid-off anticipated it sensationally, dived towards his right and timed it to perfection. India are 10/3 and New Zealand are running riot in conditions that suit their bowling arsenal.

Virat Kohli has gone now as William O'Rourke bowled a snorter of a delivery. It bounced, it came in and Kohli had no answer for it. It took an inside edge and New Zealand's plan of keeping a leg gully worked immediately and India are in early trouble in cloudy Bengaluru.

New Zealand finally have a big breakthrough. Matt Henry and Tim Southee had frustrated Rohit Sharma a lot with moving deliveries. Henry was unlucky with that LBW call but Southee has cleaned up Rohit with an incoming delivery as Rohit decided to dance down the track but missed the movement and got his leg pole knocked over.

India - 9/1 (8 overs)

Umpire Michael Gough surprisingly turned down Matt Henry's celebrappeal despite it seeming to be plumb. The New Zealand pacer trapped Indian captain Rohit Sharma in front of the wickets. The umpire didn't give it out and New Zealand went for a review. It looked out but Rohit survived as it was the umpire's call.

Tim Southee may not have had that much success in Test matches recently, however, with the overcast conditions, he is getting the ball to move rather handsomely both ways. Indian openers will have to be just a bit careful here early on.

The anthems are done and the Indian openers are in the middle. Murali Karthik and Simon Doull in their pitch report suggested that the ball might nip a bit in the first hour and even the first session and hence Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal will have to be just a tad bit careful.

The outfield looks really sharp and it doesn't feel like it rained at all, reckons Simon Doull. Doull gets joined by Murali Karthik for the pitch report, who suggests that there might be a little dampness and hence, help for the bowlers early on, but underneath it is dry. The pitch is cold since it has been under covers since October 13 but it is hard and after some movement early on, the spinners are likely to come into action.

Playing XI: Tom Latham (c), Devon Conway, Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Blundell(w), Glenn Phillips, Matt Henry, Tim Southee, Ajaz Patel, William O'Rourke

Playing XI: Rohit Sharma(c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant(w), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj

"Update: Shubman Gill was unavailable for selection of the first Test due to a neck stiffness," BCCI's official handle on X (formerly Twitter).

Indian skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and opted to bat first despite the overcast conditions. Rohit admitted that the first hour or the first session might be tricky but general nature of the wicket is that it is a good wicket to bat on here in Bengaluru and wanted to put runs on the board. Tom Latham, the New Zealand skipper too wanted to bat first but was looking to exploit the wet conditions with the ball early on.

It was a day of Bengaluru city being itself. There was rain, drizzle and a lot more of those and the covers dominated the proceedings for most of the opening day. By the time the rain stopped, the officials didn't deem conditions to be match-ready.

The first day of the opening Test match between India and New Zealand was washed out due to incessant rain and bad weather in Bengaluru. The drizzle or the mizzle or the spitting continued throughout the day till almost 3 PM before the officials decided to call it off. The second day has begun with a little sunshine and no rain and hopefully we get a full day's play. Welcome to our live coverage of the first Test on the second day from Bengaluru.