India were bowled out by New Zealand for 46 on the second day of the first Test in Bengaluru.

After the entire first day was drenched in rain, India opted to bat on a lively, arid pitch and were sent off for the third-worst total in their Test history.

Virat Kohli, Sarfaraz Khan, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin were all out for ducks, with seamers Matt Henry and Will O’Rourke winning with 5-15 and 4-22 respectively.

Rishabh Pant with 20 and Yashasvi Jaiswal with 13 were the only batters to score double figures for India, who are top of the World Test Championship rankings.

It was India’s lowest total in a home Test, bettered only by the 36 all-outs against Australia at Adelaide in 2020 and 42 against England at Lord’s in 1974.

New Zealand finished with a score of 180-3, putting them in complete control of the Test with a lead of 134.

Tom Latham and Devon Conway bettered the hosts’ score with an opening score of 67 and Conway went on to score a 91 off 105 balls.

“You see the field and try to make a judgement. Sometimes you make the right decision and sometimes you don’t,” India captain Rohit Sharma said.

“It hurts me a little bit because I made that decision…We didn’t respond well to the challenges that were presented to us and found ourselves in a situation where we were thrown out with 46 points.”

“As a captain, it definitely hurts to see that number.”