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In the first Test match, New Zealand beat Pakistan by four runs in an exciting encounter. Pakistan's team got the target of 176 runs but on the fourth day in a dramatic fluctuating match, the Pakistan team got stuck on 171 runs. This is the fifth closest defeat in Test cricket. New Zealand are 1-0 ahead of the three-match series.
The credit for this win goes to New Zealand's charismatic performance of Indian origin spinner Ejaz Patel (5/59). Apart from left-handed spinner Ejaz, born in Mumbai, fast bowler Neil Wenger (2/27) and Ish Sodhi (2/37) also made significant contributions.
Ejaz Patel was born in 1988 in Bombay (now Mumbai) in India, in the year 1988, his family shifted to New Zealand. Ejaz made his first-class career debut at the age of 24 in the year 2012 for the Central District. But it took him six years to play his first international test.
Along with this, Ejaz Patel proved to be a liability for Team India coach Ravi Shastri's claims forever. Now Ravi Shastri will not be able to claim it anywhere, which he used to do for three decades between his fellow cricketers loudly.
In fact, Ravi Shastri had taken 6 wickets in 63 Tests with 63 runs before his career in 1981 and now Ejaz Patel scored 123 runs in his very first Test, 7 wickets.
Ravi Shastri claimed that he was the only bowler born in Mumbai to score six wickets in the Test, but now the claim was captured by New Zealand's Ejaz Patel. Ejaz was born in Mumbai too. And further, they have taken the right to claim it from the Shastri.
Five of the closest Test matches
Interval team vs field when
01 Australia Windies Adelaide January 1993
02 Australia England Birmingham August 2005
03 Australia England Melbourne December 1982
03 England Australia Manchester, July 1902
04 Pakistan New Zealand Abadhabi November 2018
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