India's experienced fast bowler Ishant Sharma took five wickets in the first innings against New Zealand. He took five wickets in the Test for the 11th time on the third day of the Wellington Test on Sunday. Ishant took New Zealand's Tom Blundell, Tom Latham, Ros Taylor, Tim Southee and Trent Boult as victims.
Ishant also made many records with his superb bowling and left behind the legendary Zaheer Khan too. Ishant has now moved up to second place jointly with Zaheer Khan in terms of Indian taking the most five wicket hauls in Tests. While Zaheer did this feat 11 times in 92 Tests, Ishant achieved this feat in the 97th Test. Kapil Dev (23) tops the list.

Ishant has overtaken Bhagwat Chandrasekhar and Zaheer Khan of India to reach number three in terms of maximum number of wickets on foreign soil. Sharma has done this feat nine times. At the same time, Zaheer and Chandrasekhar had done this feat eight times. In this case Kapil Dev (12) and Anil Kumble (10) remain in the first and second place.

Apart from this, Ishant has now 297 wickets in 97 Tests and he has become the third Indian in terms of most Test wickets. Zaheer Khan (311) and Kapil Dev (434) ahead of him remain in the top.
Let us tell that New Zealand scored 348 runs in the first innings on the third day of the first Test and gained an 183 run lead on the basis of 165 runs of India's first innings.