India 577 for 5 dec and 216 for 3 dec (Pujara 101*, Gambhir 50) lead New Zealand 299 by 474 runs

India declare to set New Zealand 475 after Pujara ton

India set New Zealand a target of 475 to win the Indore Test, declaring almost immediately after Cheteshwar Pujara reached his eighth Test hundred just under an hour from tea on the fourth day. With the pitch continuing to offer little undue assistance to the bowlers, India gave themselves a four-and-a-half sessions in which to try and bowl New Zealand out again.

Pujara, batting on 50 off 98 balls at lunch, sped away in the second session, scoring 51 off 50 balls before India declared, one ball after he had helped a short ball from James Neesham to the fine leg boundary to bring up his hundred. It was a fitting way to reach the landmark, since he scored a large proportion of his runs in the area behind the wicket: 57 of his runs and six of his nine fours, with the lap-sweep and late cut his go-to shots against the spinners. At the other end, Ajinkya Rahane helped an unbroken fourth-wicket stand of 58 hurry along at 6.44 an over, stepping out to play his favourite chips down the ground and inside-out drives.

Lunch India 577 for 5 dec and 127 for 2 (Pujara 50*, Kohli 2*) lead New Zealand 299 by 385 runs

Half-centuries from Gautam Gambhir and Cheteshwar Pujara helped India stretch their overnight lead of 276 by a further 109 runs as New Zealand tried to slow them down with one-day fields in the first session of day four. The pair added 76 for the second wicket before Gambhir fell for 50 off 56 balls, chipping Jeetan Patel to short extra-cover. Pujara brought up his fourth fifty of the series in the last over before lunch, going from 45 to 49 with a deft late dab off Patel before scampering a quick single off the next ball.

Gambhir, who had retired hurt with a shoulder injury late on day three, had recovered enough to resume his innings at the fall of M Vijay's wicket in the eighth over of the morning. Vijay, looking for a quick single to the left of short extra-cover off Mitchell Santner's bowling, was caught short of his ground by a brilliant bit of work from Martin Guptill, who moved swiftly to his left, picked up the ball with his right hand, and backhand-flicked it to wicketkeeper BJ Watling.

Vijay and Pujara had added only eight runs in the morning, and Gambhir's re-entry immediately sparked a change in India's run rate. He took singles at every opportunity, and pounced on anything remotely loose - a late glide to the right of short third man when Santner gave him width, a drive past extra-cover when Trent Boult overpitched.

Gambhir's urgency rubbed off on Pujara as well. He ran as fast as his troubled knees would take him, calling "yes!" even when driving straight to mid-off, and ended up with a dirt-streaked shirt from all the times he had to dive into the crease. He only hit three fours, but two of them were utterly uncharacteristic shots: a lap-sweep off Santner, and a flat-bat hit back over Boult's head after jumping out of his crease to the fast bowler