500* - A Test Of Time: A befitting comic book to commemorate India's landmark 500th Test

Turning them in

With the pitch turning square and the fielders surrounding them, the New Zealand batsmen had nowhere to go. Ashwin took the new ball alongside Mohammed Shami, even as Jadeja displaced the latter after a couple of overs.

One by one, they all succumbed to the wiles of spin. The action got so strenuous that the experienced Ross Taylor committed a rookie-level mistake by forgetting to ground his bat while sneaking in a second. Despite a brief resistance mounted by Luke Ronchi and Santner, India rode on the spinners as well as Shami’s searing reverse-swing to celebrate their landmark 500^th Test with a comprehensive 197-run victory.