Team India faced this situation after 24 years, will Rohit Sharma avoid embarrassment?
IND vs NZ Rohit Sharma: The Indian cricket team has lost the series to New Zealand under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma. Even though there is still one more match left, but before that Team India has already lost two matches. Now the matter of crisis is that Team India is standing at the same place where it was standing about 24 years ago. It may not happen that New Zealand leaves the Indian team clean. This happened with the Indian team 24 years ago. But now the biggest and important question is whether Rohit Sharma will save the team from embarrassment or the same story will be repeated again.
Indian team has lost the test series at home after 12 years.
This has happened after about 12 years, when the Indian team has lost a Test series at home. Earlier in the year 2012, Team India had lost the Test series at home to England. After that the victory chariot continued like this till now. India had managed to win back to back 18 test series at home, which has now come to an end. Till a few days ago, the situation was such that any team was afraid of coming to India, because it felt that it was almost impossible to defeat India at its home, but now New Zealand has done the seemingly impossible thing and that too. In two consecutive matches.
24 years ago, Team India was swept in the Test at home.
Meanwhile, if we talk about Team India getting swept in the Test at home, it happened about 24 years ago. When the South African team came to India under the captaincy of Hansie Cronje. At that time the captaincy of Team India was in the hands of Sachin Tendulkar. Two matches were played in the Test series and the Indian team lost both the matches. Then India lost by 4 wickets in the first match played at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, after this the second match was played in Bengaluru, Team India lost that match by 71 runs. From then till now such a situation has never happened, but now the Indian team is standing at the same point.
Even in the year 2020, Team India was eliminated by New Zealand at home.
If we talk about the elimination of the Indian team before then it happened in the year 2020. Then the series was played in New Zealand and in that series New Zealand clean swept India 2-0. The big thing is that before this, when any team in India had defeated Team India, it was a series of only two matches. This time India is playing a three-match series with New Zealand. If there is defeat in three matches, it will be an even bigger and more shameful defeat. Now it only remains to be seen whether the Indian team and captain Rohit Sharma will be able to save the team from getting swept in this series, or something else will happen.
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