Want to become a world champion? India were bowled out for their lowest ever score on home soil as the Kiwis dismantled a miserable batting line-up

India were left embarrassed on the first day of the first Test against New Zealand when the world champion hopefuls were bundled out for 46, their lowest score in an innings on home soil so far.

Rohit Sharma’s side got off to a bad start at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Thursday as the skipper was out for two runs in the seventh over, following a string of low scores that saw five zeroes recorded.

With the stadium lights on under dark clouds, India equaled their second-highest total in a Test innings after a first day was washed out by rain.

Virat Kohli came and went without opening an account, with Will O’Rourke taking a spell of 4-22, with Matt Henry, one of his victims, leading the way with impressive figures of 5-15.

Indian keeper Rishabh Pant’s 20 runs and opener Yashasvi Jaiswal’s 13 runs were the only contributions in double digits, while no other player scored more than four.

India’s score was 2-9 after Kohli returned to Sharma’s pavilion and it became 3-10 when Sarfaraz Khan also failed to trouble the scorers.

From 3-31, they lost 7-15 as O’Rourke and Henry extracted enough seam movement to find the edge of the bat regularly.

Henry took his 100th Test wicket when he dismissed Kuldeep Yadav with a diving strike at gully by sub fielder Michael Bracewell.

After this test the series will leave for Pune and Mumbai.

It comes at a very bad time for India as they prepare for their five-match series in Australia, where they aim to topple the reigning world champions after losing to Pat Cummins’ side in the World Test Championship final last year.

India were bowled out for 36 in Adelaide in 2020 and Cricket Australia couldn’t stop themselves from taking a dig on social media about their latest batting collapse.