After the hard graft of day two, the Indian spin duo of Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin came to the party, picking up all nine New Zealand wickets to fall on Saturday.
Beginning the day in a commanding position, the Kiwis failed to come up with any answers to Jadeja and Ashwin as they were bowled out for 262. The last four New Zealand wickets fell for just seven runs.
Jadeja registered the fifth five-wicket haul of his Test career while Ashwin ended the innings with four scalps of his own.
Once again, KL Rahul got the Indians off to a flier but failed to capitilise fully on his start, dismissed by Ish Sodhi for 38 just before tea.
Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara came out with a positive approach in the final session, putting on 107 runs as both batsmen made half-centuries and India closed the day 159-1 and with a lead of 215 runs.
Here, we pick out the top tweets from the day’s play.