Bumrah and Ashwin also could not avoid the defeat of this series.Image Credit Source: PTI
The Indian team's impenetrable fort has also been destroyed. The supremacy of the Indian team, which has won every test series at home for the last 12 years, is now over. The reign that lasted the last 4331 days has ended. With the 113-run loss in the Pune test match against New Zealand, team India also lost the series. The main reason for Team India's defeat has been the failure of the batsmen, but now another reason has also come to light, which will surprise. This is directly related to the defeat against England 12 years ago and this reason is star all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin. Apart from this, a connection with Jasprit Bumrah has also come to light.
Since the defeat against England in 2012, Team India had won 18 consecutive Test series at home and one of the main reasons for this was the tremendous performance of the Indian spinners, led by Ravichandran Ashwin. Along with Ravindra Jadeja, he had made the Indian team's fort impenetrable but this time it was broken and Ashwin's performance also emerged as a big reason for this. It would be wrong to say that only Ashwin is responsible for this defeat, although he did wonders in almost all the test series, but his failure in this series proved fatal for the Indian team.
Connection of 2012 and 2024 losses with Ashwin
This can be understood very well from statistics, which is shocking. In the 4 innings of this series so far, Ashwin has taken only 6 wickets and his bowling average is 43.50. That means he got one wicket after scoring 43.50 runs. This is Ashwin's second worst bowling average in all the Test series he has played on Indian soil in his career. Ashwin's career-worst average in the home Test series has been 52.64. His performance came in the test series against England in 2012. Coincidentally, the Indian team had lost against England and now the same situation happened against New Zealand as well.
These figures not only show that Ashwin's performance was not good in this series but also show the greatness of this legendary player who for the last 12-13 years has been performing brilliantly and consistently in the home series, so team India managed to win 18 consecutive test series. Just before this series, Ashwin had done wonders with the ball and bat against Bangladesh and was adjudged Player of the Series. In such a situation, if Ashwin has had a bad series, the entire blame cannot be placed on him.
Strange coincidence associated with Bumrah
Not only this, such a coincidence of defeat has also been associated with star fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah, which is hard to believe. In fact, before this series, Bumrah had played only 3 Test matches against New Zealand while in the Indian team. Of them, 2 matches were played in the tour of New Zealand 2020 and the third in the final of the World Test Championship 2021. Team India had lost all three matches. After this, Bumrah played both Test matches of this series and team India lost in both. That means Team India has lost all 5 Tests in which Bumrah plays against New Zealand. Not only that, when the New Zealand team came to India in 2021, Bumrah was not part of that series and the Indian team won the series 1-0.
