New Zealand leads by 134 after India bowled out for 46 and its lowest total in a home test

BENGALURU, India (AP) — New Zealand built a 134-run lead after bowling out India for 46, its lowest total in a home test on Thursday.

The Black Caps reached 180-3 when bad light stopped play at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. Opener Devon Conway led the way with 91 runs off 105 balls. Rachin Ravindra (22) and Daryl Mitchell (14) were unbeaten at stumps on day two of the first test.

This was after fast bowler Matt Henry grabbed 5-15 to blow away India for just 46. Young pacer William O'Rourke took 4-22. Pacer Tim Southee took the other wicket, the first to fall, when he bowled captain Rohit Sharma.

India had five ducks in its innings — including star Virat Kohli — equalling its second most zeros in a test innings. That was all under dark skies with the stadium lights on.

But as soon as India was all out in 32 overs, the sun came out and the pitch flattened.

New Zealand overhauled India’s total in a jiffy as Conway and skipper Tom Latham (15) put on 67 runs for the first wicket.

Left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav trapped Latham before the Kiwis went to tea at 82-1.

In the final session, the visitors drove home their advantage with Conway scoring 50 off 54 balls. He put on 75 runs for the second wicket with Will Young, who scored 33.

Young attacked India's spinners and he hit five boundaries before being out caught off Ravindra Jadeja.

All three India spinners were among the wickets when Ravichandran Ashwin bowled Conway short of his century.

New Zealand was down to 153-4 after losing two wickets in 16 deliveries but Ravindra and Mitchell defied India's desperate search for a comeback.

Earlier, India collapsed to its third lowest test score, after 36 all out against Australia in Adelaide in 2020 and 42 all out against England at Lord’s in 1974.

For New Zealand, Henry became the third fastest bowler to 100 test wickets, in 26 innings, one short of Richard Hadlee’s record of 25.

After the first day was washed out, India was a stunning 34-6 by lunch.

Sharma, who won the toss and decided to bat, was out for 2 in the seventh over. Kohli, caught by Glenn Phillips off the bowling of O'Rourke, was out two overs later at 9-2.

Sarfaraz Khan also left the field without scoring in the next over, at 10-3.

After another rain delay at 13-3, India lost three more wickets before lunch.

Post lunch, Henry dismissed Ravichandran Ashwin on the first ball. Then Rishabh Pant, top-scoring with 20 runs, was out caught, again off Henry.

Henry completed his fiver for the fourth-best haul for a New Zealand pacer in India, to reduce the home side to 40-9.

The innings ended at 46, the lowest test total in Asia, surpassing 53 by West Indies against Pakistan in 1986 and 59 by Pakistan against Australia in 2002.

India's previous lowest home total was 75 in 1987 against the West Indies in New Delhi.

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New Zealand's Devon Conway plays a shot during the day two of the first cricket test match between India and New Zealand at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

India's Virat Kohli plays a shot he is caught by New Zealand's Glenn Philips during the day two of the first cricket test match between India and New Zealand at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

New Zealand's William O'Rourke prepares to bowl a delivery during the day two of the first cricket test match between India and New Zealand at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

New Zealand's Matt Henry bowls a delivery during the day two of the first cricket test match between India and New Zealand at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

New Zealand's Devon Conway plays a shot during the day two of the first cricket test match between India and New Zealand at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

New Zealand's Matt Henry holds up the ball as he leaves the field after taking the five wickets during the day two of the first cricket test match between India and New Zealand at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

New Zealand's Matt Henry, center, celebrates with teammates after the dismissal of India's Ravindra Jadeja during the day two of the first cricket test match between India and New Zealand at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

India's Rishabh Pant, second left, leaves the field after rain stopped play on the day two of the first cricket test match between India and New Zealand at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

New Zealand's Tim Southee jumps to field the ball on his own bowling after a shot played by India's Yashasvi Jaiswal during the day two of the first cricket test match between India and New Zealand at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

New Zealand's Devon Conway, right, celebrates with teammate Rachin Ravindra after taking the catch to dismiss India's Sarfaraz Khan during the day two of the first cricket test match between India and New Zealand at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

New Zealand's Tim Southee jumps to field the ball on his own bowling after a shot played by India's Yashasvi Jaiswal during the day two of the first cricket test match between India and New Zealand at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

India's captain Rohit Sharma, right, and New Zealand's captain Tom Latham walk into the field on the day two of the first cricket test match between India and New Zealand at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Umpire Paul Reiffel points skywards as players wait for the play to start on the day two of the first cricket test match between India and New Zealand at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

India's captain Rohit Sharma, right, and India's Yashasvi Jaiswal wait for the play to start on the day two of the first cricket test match between India and New Zealand at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

New Zealand's Matt Henry gestures to ask for a review for the wicket of India's captain Rohit Sharma during the day two of the first cricket test match between India and New Zealand at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

India's Yashasvi Jaiswal bats during the day two of the first cricket test match between India and New Zealand at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

India's captain Rohit Sharma bats during the day two of the first cricket test match between India and New Zealand at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

New Zealand's Tim Southee, second right, celebrates with teammates after the dismissal of India's captain Rohit Sharma during the day two of the first cricket test match between India and New Zealand at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

India's captain Rohit Sharma reacts as he walks off the field after losing his wicket during the day two of the first cricket test match between India and New Zealand at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent panel investigating the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally says the Secret Services needs fundamental reform" and that “another Butler can and will happen again” without major changes in how candidates are protected.

The review faulted the Secret Service for poor communications that day and failing to secure the building where the gunman took his shots. It also found more systemic issues at the agency such as a failure to understand the unique risks facing Trump and a culture of doing “more with less.”

The 52-page report issued Thursday took the Secret Service to task for specific problems leading up to the July 13 rally in Butler as a well as deeper one within the agency's culture. It recommended bringing in new, outside leadership and refocusing on its protective mission.

“The Secret Service as an agency requires fundamental reform to carry out its mission,” the authors wrote Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of the Homeland Security Department, the Secret Service's parent agency, in a letter accompanying their report. “Without that reform, the Independent Review Panel believes another Butler can and will happen again.”

One rallygoer was killed and two others wounded when Thomas Michael Crooks climbed onto the roof of a nearby building and opened fire as Trump spoke. The former president was wounded in the ear before being rushed off the stage by Secret Service agents. That shooting, along with another incident in Florida when Trump was golfing — a gunman there never got a line of site on the president or fired a shot — has led to a crisis in confidence in the agency.

The report by a panel of four former law enforcement officials from national and state government follows investigations by members of Congress, the agency's own investigators and by Homeland Security's oversight body.

A look at the report's key findings and recommendations:

The panel echoed previous reports that have zeroed in on the failure to secure the building near the rally that had a clear line of site to where Trump was speaking and the multiple communications problems that hindered the ability of the Secret Service and local and state law enforcement to talk to each other.

“The failure to secure a complex of buildings, portions of which were within approximately 130 yards of the protectee and containing numerous positions carrying high-angle line of sight risk, represents a critical security failure,” the report said.

The panel faulted the planning between Secret Service and the local law enforcement, and said the Secret Service failed to ask about what was being done to secure the building: “Relying on a general understanding that ‘the locals have that area covered’ is simply not good enough and, in fact, at Butler this attitude contributed to the security failure.”

The panel also cited the fact that there were two separated command posts at the Butler rally: one with various local law enforcement and another with the Secret Service: “This created, at the highest level, a structural divide in the flow of communications.”

There were other communications problems.

The Secret Service had to switch radio channels because radio traffic of agents protecting first lady Jill Biden at an event in Pittsburgh was popping up on the channels of agents covering the Butler rally.

The panel also noted that all the law enforcement personnel on the ground were using a “chaotic mixture” of radio, cell phone, text, and e-mail throughout the day to communicate.

Also the panel said it was unclear who had ultimate command that day.

The report delved into the agency's culture and painted a picture of an agency struggling to think critically about how it carries out its mission, especially when it comes to protecting Trump.

The panel said agency personnel operated under the assumption that they effectively had to “do more with less." The report said the additional security measures taken to protect Trump after the Butler shooting should have been taken before.

"To be clear, the Panel did not identify any nefarious or malicious intent behind this phenomenon, but rather an overreliance on assigning personnel based on categories (former, candidate, nominee) instead of an individualized assessment of risk,” the panel wrote.

The panel also noted the “back-and-forth" between the Trump security detail and Secret Service headquarters regarding how many people were needed to protect him.

The panel also faulted some of the senior-level staff who were involved in the rally for what they called a “lack of ownership.” In one example, the panel said a senior agent on site who was tasked with coordinating communications didn't walk around the rally site ahead of timen and did not brief the state police counterpart before the rally about how communications would be managed.

It cited the relative inexperience of two specific agents who played a role in security for the July 13 rally. One was the site agent from Trump's detail whose job it was to coordinate with the Pittsburgh field office on security planning for the rally. The panel said the agent graduated from the Secret Service academy in 2020, and had only been on the Trump detail since 2023. Before the Butler rally the agent had only done “minimal previous site advance work or site security planning.”

Another agent assigned to operate a drone detection system had only used the technology at two prior events.

Having a unified command post at all large events where Secret Service and other law enforcement representatives are all physically in the same place; overhead surveillance for all outdoor events; security plans must include a way to mitigate line of site concerns out to 1,000 yards and who's in charge at the event; and more training on how to get protectees out of dangerous scenarios.

The panel said the agency also needs new, outside leadership and a renewed focus on its core protective mission while expressing skepticism that the agency should continue with the investigations it currently conducts. While the Secret Service is well known for what it does to protect presidents and other dignitaries, it also investigates financial crimes.

“In the Panel’s opinion, it is simply unacceptable for the Service to have anything less than a paramount focus on its protective mission, particularly while that protective mission function is presently suboptimal," the report said.

The panel members were Mark Filip, deputy attorney general under President George W. Bush; David Mitchell, who served in numerous state and local law enforcement roles in Maryland and Delaware; Janet Napolitano, homeland security secretary under President Barack Obama; and Frances Fragos Townsend, Bush's assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism.

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is helped off the stage at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)