India vs New Zealand 2020's tour of New Zealand will be India's biggest challenge of the year before the World T20. With Kohli & Co. already at the top of the World Test Championship, the pressure to maintain the lead will be optimum.
India are set to travel to New Zealand to play 5 T20Is, 3 ODIs, a three-day practice match and two Test matches from January 24 to March 04. The two Tests against the Kiwis will be Kohli & Co.'s biggest test so far in the World Test Championship. India lead the way with a mammoth 360 points with Australia chasing them from the second spot. However, all of India's games so far have been against weakened oppositions but the two Tests in New Zealand will be their first test so far.
The three Tests will be played at Seddon Park, Hamilton against New Zealand XI and that will be followed by the two Tests at Basin Reserve, Wellington and Hagley Oval, Christchurch.
The five T20Is will give India another chance to test their bench strength in a World Cup year. With the World T20 set to be in Australia in October, the five games will allow India to try out further combinations. Hardik Pandya's impending return could also provide the India a much needed boost. The first two T20Is will be played at Eden Park, Auckland and the next three at Seddon Park, Hamilton, Westpac Stadium, Wellington and Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui respectively.
The Men in Blue will also play three ODIs against the Black Caps in between the T20I and Test series. The three ODIs will be played at Seddon Park, Hamilton, Eden Park, Auckland and Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui.
India reduced New Zealand to 153/7 but the New Zealand tail wagged again and took the hosts to 235, cutting India's lead to just 7 at the end of their first innings.
India could only manage a lead of 97 and have lost 6 second innings wicket after the end of day two's play in the second Test versus New Zealand.
Indian pacers led India's fightback with Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah taking 7 wickets among themselves but at the end of day two, India could just manage a 97-run lead.
Ravindra Jadeja took a stunning catch at deep square leg, leaping high and plucking the ball out of thin air showing extraordinary reflexes to get rid of Wagner.
Jasprit Bumrah picked up the wickets of Kane Williamson, BJ Watling and Tim Southee on day two of the second Test in Christchurch.
Ravindra Jadeja took two brillaint catches including Neil Wagner's as India bowled New Zealand out for 235 on Sunday.
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Kyle Jamieson took five wickets in the innings as he helped the host side bundle India out on 242.
Batting surely wasn't easy on that spicy track, but the dismissals of the three half-centurions were more about profligacy than New Zealand's bowling, while the remaining batters just threw their chances as India were restricted to 242
Vihari, who was very impressive in his 55 off 70 balls, said that he wanted to attack so that Cheteshwar Pujara can play his natural game of grinding the bowling
Kyle Jamieson claimed a maiden five-wicket haul Saturday as New Zealand bowled out India for 242 and reached 63-0 on the first day of the second cricket test.
India were steady at 194 for five at tea but lost wickets in quick succession after the play resumed. Pacer Kyle Jamieson triggered the collapse, returning impressive figures of 14-3-45-5.
Chasing the fuller and wide delivery from Kyle Jamieson, Prithvi edged the ball as Latham leapt high to grab the ball from thin air and provided New Zealand with a much-needed breakthrough before lunch.
It was just another vintage plan laid down for Virat Kohli on the first afternoon of the second Test at the Hagley Oval in Christchurch as Tim Southee reaped the rewards to inflict more misery on the Indian skipper.
Prithvi scored an impressive 64-ball 54 to provide India with a promising start on the green-topped Hagley Oval after the early dismissal of Mayank Agarwal.
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The green-top Hagley Oval and the poor average of spinners at the venue could urge New Zealand to go in with an all-four pace attack. But they had lost the only match at Hagley Oval where they had executed this very plan.
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With a 1-0 lead in the two-game series, New Zealand now eye a whitewash against India, which might just make them the first team in eight years to achieve the feat.
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