At the stumps on day 1 of the 3^rd and final Test of the series between India and New Zealand at the newest Test venue Holkar Cricket Stadium (Indore), India is in very good position.

Earlier in the day, after winning the toss, India decided to bat first.

At the end of the day, India made 267/3 on the scoreboard.

Brief Scores: India – 267/3 (Virat Kohli 103*, Ajinkya Rahane 79*, Mitchell Santner 1/53)

Here are some statistical highlights of day 1 of the 3^rd Test:

Holkar Cricket Stadium (Indore) is the India’s 22^nd Test venue.

Just 5^th over into the day, New Zealand skipper, Kane Williamson brought the spinner Jeetan Patel into the attack. Last time a New Zealand captain introduced a spinner in the first 5 over of a Test match was in 2002.

On the opening day of this Test, Indian batsman Ajinkya Rahane completed his 2,000 Test runs. Rahane became 36^th Indian batsman to complete 2,000 Test runs.

Indian skipper Virat Kohli scored an outstanding century and remained unbeaten on 103 runs at the end of the day 1. It was Kohli’s 6^th Test century as an Indian captain which is the 4^th highest no. of Test centuries by an Indian captain. With this century, Kohli is now only behind former Indian skippers Sourav Ganguly (5 Test centuries as captain) and MS Dhoni’s (5 Test centuries as captain) records.

Last time an Indian captain scored a Test century against New Zealand was in 2003 by Sourav Ganguly (100* at Ahmedabad).