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Virat Kohli, the architect of so many ODI run-chases, scripted another one, this time in a Test, to hold together India's nervy batting line-up and lead the team to a 2-0 series victory

Kruger van Wyk has been ruled out of taking further part in the Bangalore Test, due to an injured arm

Virat Kohli's emergence as a permanent occupant of the batting slot left vacant by Sourav Ganguly was perhaps the only plus for India from the embarrassing Australia tour last season

A teetering third day had the second Test in Bangalore turn into a second innings shoot-out

Led by a Virat Kohli classic, India are now within 82 runs of the New Zealand first innings total

he first day of the Bangalore Test was a perfect one for neutrals as the New Zealand had their most productive day of the series, setting up a challenge for India's batsmen over the weekend

A sizzling counterattack by New Zealand captain Ross Taylor produced a high-speed century that was the spark that led to an improved display from the visitors on the opening day of the second Test against India

Ross Taylor remained positive ahead of the Bangalore Test and called for an adventurous approach to overcome New Zealand's indecisive batting against the India spinners

ESPNcricinfo previews the second Test between India and New Zealand in Bangalore

Shane Bond has expressed interest in taking up the role of New Zealand bowling coach

Mark Greatbatch, the former New Zealand coach, has questioned the team's constant inability to cope against spin bowling

Damien Wright, the New Zealand bowling coach, will step down from the role at the end of the upcoming World Twenty20

Ross Taylor has said New Zealand's capitulation to R Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha in the Hyderabad Test was more to do with a mental block against spin than technical shortcomings

For all that spin bowling is considered an art involving guile and deception, India's spinners took apart the New Zealand batting with the precision of surgeons combined with the calculations of mathematicians

When a second-session downpour ended play on the third day of the Test in Hyderabad, India had New Zealand following on in their second innings at 41 for 1

South Africa put in a clinical all-round performance in the third-place play-off of the Under-19 World Cup, thrashing New Zealand by eight wickets in Townsville

Jeetan Patel, the New Zealand offspinner, has said his side can 'fight' and come back in the Hyderabad Test

New Zealand were reminded of what was going to be the tougher of their two tasks on this brief tour of India. Not so much bowling against the Indian batting on the country's slow, low turners, but batting on them

Trent Boult, the left-arm seamer, has said New Zealand missed out on an opportunity to put pressure on India's young batsmen on the opening day of the first Test in Hyderabad