Eight deliveries. That’s all it took for India to fritter away an advantage for which they had to work extremely hard in extenuating circumstances at the Wankhede Stadium on Friday.

On a warm, humid opening day of the final Test, Ravindra Jadeja’s 14th five-wicket haul helped the hosts neutralise the loss of the toss. The left-arm spinner and offie Washington Sundar combined for nine wickets as India also overcame the loss through illness of Jasprit Bumrah to bowl New Zealand out for 235, 42 minutes after tea.