Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli
The Indian cricket team suffered an embarrassing defeat in Pune. New Zealand defeated India by 113 runs on the third day of the second Test match on 26 October. With this, the New Zealand team took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series. Thus, India lost its first Test series on its soil in the last 12 years.
New Zealand scored 259 runs in the first innings and defeated India by 156 runs in the first innings. New Zealand scored 255 runs in the second innings and gave India a target of 359 runs to win. But the Indian team collapsed for 245 runs in the second innings and lost the series. In this way, New Zealand managed to win their first Test series on Indian soil. It took New Zealand a long time, 68 years, to win their first Test series here. Both teams have been playing test series in India since 1955, but only now after 12 series the Kiwi team managed to win the first series.
On the other hand, with the Indian team losing the series, not just one but many embarrassing records have been recorded in the name of Indian team captain Rohit Sharma. Rohit Sharma has become the Indian captain who has lost the most Test matches at home in this century. He defeated Sourav Ganguly and Mahendra Singh Dhoni. In this century, Rohit has lost 4 home test matches under his captaincy.
Indian captain who has lost the most tests at home in this century
- 4-Rohit Sharma*
- 3 – Sourav Ganguly
- 3 – MS Dhoni
Not only this, Virat Kohli had lost only two Test matches at home during his eight years of captaincy. At the same time, under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the Indian team has lost 2 home tests in just 2 weeks. From this one can estimate how bad this defeat is for the Indian team in this series.
- Virat Kohli: lost 2 home tests in 8 years
- Rohit Sharma: lost 2 home tests in 2 weeks*
This is only the third time in the last 24 years that the Indian team has lost consecutive Test matches in a home Test series. Before this, the Indian team had lost 2 consecutive test matches against South Africa in the year 2000. After this, England defeated India in 2 consecutive test matches in 2012.
Indian team's defeat in consecutive Tests since 2000
- vs New Zealand, Bengaluru, 2024 and vs New Zealand, Pune, 2024
- vs England, Mumbai, 2012 and vs England, Kolkata, 2012
- vs South Africa, Mumbai and vs South Africa, Bangalore, 2000
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