India's bowling collapse undoes morning discipline as Ravindra, Southee steer NZ past 400

In the shifting tides of a Test match at Bengaluru, India demonstrated that discipline and collapse can coexist within the same morning's play. Having reduced New Zealand to 233 for seven through precise, purposeful bowling, India's grip loosened under the weight of tactical miscalculation and a loss of bowling discipline, allowing an eighth-wicket partnership to carry the visitors past 400. It is a reminder that in cricket, as in many human endeavors, the hardest thing is not to seize an advantage but to hold it.