*Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

[Midwinter]

Wow !

Perhaps lucky in the first test, a good win in the second and beating India at their own game in the third.

Congratulations you Kiwis !

 

[HouHsiaoHsien]

If Pant or Bumrah weren’t in this India side, I’d gladly support some other team

 

[ankitj]

After we lost the 1st test I was dreading the scenario where NZ ties the series 1-1.

 

[duffer]

Bumrah or bust really. I don't think anyone believes in their batting anymore if there's any sort of life in the pitch, which there probably will be down here.

Not enough. 5-0 Australia

 

[Darkshadows]

Crazy stuff, a clean sweep test series win In India, one of the best achievements in NZ cricket history, they deserve a ticker tape parade when they return.

Remove “one of the” from this sentence. NZ did what no team has done in cricket history. Even the most mediocre Indian teams never got whitewashed 3-0 at home.

 

[ataraxia]

Imagine predicting the result of this SC tour:

"Yes, I think NZ will draw in Afghanistan, lose both in Sri Lanka, and win all three against India."

It's not entirely certain that this is the greatest series win of all time, but this match was absolutely the greatest dead rubber win in history.

 

[Heboric]

NZ hurting India not only on the field but also in the commentary box. Ian Smith

 

[Skyliner]

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Mumbai's son comes home to roost
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I'm the guy in the background

 

[jcas0167]

Ajaz probably man of the match here but I'd probably give it to Young, those two innings worth double what he actually scored. Was genuinely a minefield but he rarely looked in trouble

Young had such a great series. Really happy for him.

 

[Meridio]

Was just going to post the same. Showed there’s room for the traditional approach where others tried to hit their way out.

Yup, a lesson the Indian bats then totally ignored in their innings

 

[mackembhoy]

The fact you've done this after how bad you were in Sri Lanka

Then youve come here without Kane and then each game someone different have been the match winners. Is nothing short of incredible.

How do you go about picking a man of the series after that?

 

[Spark]

In the short term India just have to stop preparing raging turners. As a neutral (yes really!) and cricket fan I've honestly loved it in the last few years because they've made for consistently great viewing, as cricket usually is when ball is dominant, but as a strategy it's just been disastrous. Modern Indian batsmen broadly just do not know how to play on these pitches, consistently outbatted by the opposition top order, and it brings the opposition spinners into the game massively. Go back to it when you remember how to bat on these things rather than playing like Australia 2010-15 on slow pitches.

 

[Silver Silva]

Even the Indian teams who first started out in Test cricket with limited resources never did this bad at home, an absolutely disgraceful performance from Team India , who would have thought it would be India to let Asia down the most in these last few months against SENA sides.

 

[Meridio]

India can't say they didn't see this coming or were surprised by this result tbh - though obviously no one saw this coming for NZ given where they were just a month ago and the general opinion of their spin stocks before this series. People here have been raising the five alarm fire about India's batting for ages, though I feel their bowling has underperformed here too, which is actually just as alarming IMO. But like every Indian poster here has been saying "uhhh this is no good" for like three years and it became obvious during that Aus series that India were absolutely gettable last year by what was a frankly pretty average Australian side. England picked a frankly joke attack and that might have papered over some cracks earlier this year, NZ have not been so generous.

I think their bowling went up a notch this game in comparison to the last 2 - though also NZ batted worse here and the pitch was probably even more friendly to the bowlers. The batting though was atrocious

 

[Spark]

I think their bowling went up a notch this game in comparison to the last 2 - though also NZ batted worse here and the pitch was probably even more friendly to the bowlers. The batting though was atrocious

They were certainly better but I still think that peak Ashwin and Jadeja don't concede 175-ish on this pitch in the third innings. I thought NZ would struggle to get to 120 but they got well past that and that ended up being the difference. And they definitely don't let NZ accumulate so easily in the third innings in the previous game.

 

[straw man]

Commiserations to Indian fans - we played well but caught you at the right time too, between one generation fading out and the next one starting to arrive but not quite there yet. This defeat might spur the full rebuild around Pant, Sundar, Jaiswal, Gill etc that the management have clearly dragged their feet on. Not so sure about Sarfaraz, despite obvious natural ability.

Rough going straight into the B-G series next - err good luck with that, fingers crossed for some flat pitches early series.

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

WTC update. The dethroning

 

[Skyliner]

Doing this without Santner after his dominant performance in the second test and Ajaz had looked so out of sorts….incredible. GP really had to bowl a lot of overs and hold up an end and he did it, he took vital wickets and was that credible foil for Ajaz. Vindication for Latham, the result proves he got it right. The cricketing gods clearly wanted this for NZ, erasing so much past hurt.

 

[Stefan9]

Never thought I would see the day of India getting white washed at home. Absolute shocker. Well done NZ.