Christchurch: In the first innings of the second Test against New Zealand, the national team was bowled out for 297, in response to which New Zealand declared the innings after scoring 659 runs for the loss of 6 wickets.

 Christchurch: In the first innings of the second Test against New Zealand, the national team was bowled out for 297, in response to which New Zealand declared the innings after scoring 659 runs for the loss of 6 wickets.

The national team returned to the pavilion for 297 on the first day of the match at Hegley Oval in Christchurch and at the end of the second day, New Zealand captain Ken Williamson was on 112 and Henry Nichols on 89.

On the third day, the Kiwis declared the innings after scoring 659 runs for the loss of 6 wickets. At the last minute, Pakistan lost the precious wicket of Shaun Masood. He failed to open his account once again.

New Zealand was bowled out for 33 by Tom Latham, Tom Blundell (16), and Ross Taylor (12). However, the Pakistani fielders gave Henry Nichols a chance to play a brilliant inning of 157 while Daryl Mitchell also scored a brilliant inning. He remained unbeaten on 102 for a century.

Captain Ken Williamson once again showed a batting class, scoring his second consecutive Test and 24th century of his career, but he did not stop there but also equaled former Kiwi captain McCullum's record of 4 double centuries by scoring the fourth double century of his career. He scored 238 runs and fell victim to Faheem Ashraf.

Earlier, New Zealand won the toss and invited Pakistan to bat. The top order of the national team failed again. Shaun Masood was dismissed without opening an account. Abid Ali 25, Haris Sohail returned to the pavilion with 1 run. Century maker Fawad Alam also proved to be the guest of only 2 runs.

Captain Mohammad Rizwan and Azhar Ali proved their responsibility and scored half-centuries. However, Azhar Ali was bowled out for 93 by the nervous nineties. Mohammad Rizwan played an innings of 61 runs. Faheem Ashraf continued his all-rounder performance with an innings of 48 runs while Zafar Gohar, who played his first Test, also scored 34 runs.

For New Zealand, Kyle Jameson took 5 wickets, Tim Southee and Trent Bolt took 2 wickets each.

It should be noted that New Zealand already has an unbeaten lead of zero in the two-Test series.