Team India lost the Test series at home after 4332 days
Thanks to Mitchell Santner's magical spin (13 wickets) and tom Latham's captaincy innings, new zealand defeated india by 113 runs in the second Test played in Pune. With this, new zealand captured the three-match Test series 2-0. This is the first time that the Kiwi team has won a Test series in India.
You will be surprised to know that Team india has lost the Test series at home after 4332 days. Earlier in 2012, england had won the Test series on indian soil. dhoni was the captain of india then. Now after 12 years, once again Team india has lost the Test series at home. After winning 18 consecutive Test series, india has lost the Test series at home.
New Zealand won the toss in this match and decided to bat first. The Kiwi team scored 259 runs in the first innings. After this, Team india could score only 156 runs in its first innings. In this way, the visiting team gained a huge lead of 103 runs. In the second innings, new zealand scored 255 runs and set a target of 359 runs in front of India. In response, the host team could score only 245 runs. Although, at one time India's score was 96 runs for one wicket, but the middle order was completely in full flow.Mitchell Santner was the hero of this historic victory of New Zealand. Santner took a total of 13 wickets in this match. In the first innings, Santner sent seven indian batsmen to the pavilion. In the second innings, he got 6 wickets.
yashasvi jaiswal played an innings of 77 runs in 65 balls for Team india, which came out to chase the target of 359 runs. 9 fours and 3 sixes came off his bat. Apart from this, rohit sharma got out after scoring 08 runs, Shubman Gill 23 runs, virat kohli 17 runs, rishabh pant 00 runs, washington sundar 21 runs, sarfaraz khan 09 runs and Ravichandran Ashwin got out after scoring 18 runs. ravindra jadeja played an innings of 42 runs.