Indian Test Team
India vs New Zealand Test Series: The Indian team had to face defeat by 8 wickets in the first test match against New Zealand. This match was an eye-opener for the Indian players. In the first innings, even the veteran batsmen present in the Indian batting attack had collapsed and could not even stay on the crease leave alone scoring runs. The entire Indian team was reduced to just 46 runs. Team India could not recover from this setback in the entire Test and lost the Test match against New Zealand at home after 36 years. With the loss of the match, Team India is 0-1 behind in the series. Now to level the series, Team India will have to win the second test match at any cost.
Team India has lost the match to Australia on Pune ground.
Team India has played a total of two test matches so far at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune, out of which India has won one and lost one. Team India played its first test match here in the year 2017. Then Team India had to face a crushing defeat against Australia by 333 runs. Then Australia’s Steve O’Keefe bowled brilliantly and took 12 wickets and played an important role in Australia winning the match.
Won the test match 5 years ago
After this, Team India played the second Test match here in the year 2019, when the Indian team defeated South Africa by an innings and 137 runs. Then Indian captain Virat Kohli had played a explosive inning of 254 runs and it was because of him that Team India was successful in winning the match. The Indian team had won the test match here 5 years ago.
KL Rahul was a flop
The Indian team may have lost the first test match, but Team India has players who are capable of winning the match. After losing the match, Indian captain Rohit had also said that we had won four consecutive Test matches after losing the first match of the series against England. Sarfaraz Khan scored a century in the second innings of the first Test and Rishabh Pant supported him well. Sarfaraz had played an inning of 150 runs, while Pant had scored 99 runs. Now in the second test, fans will once again expect a big innings from these batsmen. KL Rahul flopped badly in the first test match and it became difficult to score runs from his bat. He scored zero runs in the first innings and 12 runs in the second innings. In such a situation, he may be dropped from the playing eleven.
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