India Records Lowest Test Total At Home Ground, All Out For 46 Against New Zealand In 1st Test Match

Bengaluru: India scored its lowest-ever total in Test cricket at a home ground as New Zealand bowled the team out for 46 on the second day of the first Test match between both the countries at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Thursday. India’s previous lowest Test match score on home soil was 75 against West Indies in Delhi.

This was in fact India’s lowest Test total against New Zealand in 91 years, reports claimed.

Matt Henry and Will O’Rourke wreaked havoc with the new ball as the India players batted only 31.2 overs. It seemed that Indian skipper Rohit Sharma’s decision to bat first backfired. As many as five Indian batters returned without scoring a single. Rishabh Pant was the top-scorer with his 20 off 49 balls.

Looking back at India’s lowest Test score

India’s lowest Test score was 36 against by Australia in the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at Adelaide in 2020.

Top five Lowest score by India at home ground

Team     Score     Overs     RR          Inns        Opposition                          Ground                                Match Date

India      46           31.2       NA          1             New Zealand                     Bengaluru                            17-Oct-24

India      75           30.5       2.43       1             West Indies                        Delhi                                     25-Nov-87

India      76           20           3.8         1             South Africa                       Ahmedabad                        03-Apr-08

India      83           38.5       2.13       4             England                               Chennai                               14-Jan-77

India      83           27           3.07       1             New Zealand                     Mohali                                  10-Oct-99

India      89           54.2       1.63       2             New Zealand                     Hyderabad (Deccan)         15-Oct-69