Team India are currently at the top of the World Test Championship table and are on red-hot form but Ajinkya Rahane feels beating New Zealand in New Zealand won't be easy.
As per points system, the value for each Test match win in a two-match series is 60 points per game but during a five-game series, it gets reduced to 24 per game.
Indian skipper Virat Kohli has termed the World Test Championship as the biggest ICC tournament.
Team India coach Ravi Shastri said Prithvi Shaw and Shubman Gill are supremely exciting talents and have bright futures ahead of them.
The last time the two faced each other was in Australia when the hosts were without Steve Smith, David Warner and Mitchell Starc. India won the series 2-1
After an emphatic series win over New Zealand, Australia have reduced the gap with India in the World Test Championship table.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) cricket committee is likely to consider four-day Test matches as being part of the World Test Championship from 2023.
Pakistan secured a comprehensive 263-run win over Sri Lanka to jump to third position in the World Test Championship.
Australia leads the three-test series 1-0 going into the second test in Melbourne on Boxing Day.
India had refused to play a pink-ball Test during their last tour of Australia but last month they hosted their first day-night Test against Bangladesh in Kolkata with Sourav Ganguly taking the initiative after becoming the BCCI president.
Windies are currently ranked eighth in the ICC Test team rankings, however, Holder felt his team will soon be at the fourth or fifth spot in the charts.
As per the existing format, a team is supposed to play six series in the WTC, three home and three away but they are not scheduled alternatively.
Umesh Yadav and Ishant Sharma took 9 wickets among themselves as India beat Bangladesh by an innings and 46 runs to take the two-match series 2-0.
India secured another emphatic victory over Bangladesh in the second Test in Kolkata, and as a result, took a commanding lead in the World Test Championship table.
India so far have won all the five games they have played in the World Test Championship and have 240 points, which is 180 more than second-placed New Zealand.
Ian Chappell said that Test cricket needs to be competitive and other team's need to follow India's quest for excellence to achieve that.
Faf du Plessis lost the toss on all three occasions in the Test series as India whitewashed the Proteas 3-0 in the recently concluded three-match affair.
Rohit Sharma's adaptability was at display against South Africa and in him, India perhaps, have found a natural successor to Virender Sehwag that has been missing for a while.
Virat Kohli's India now have 240 points from 5 games in the World Test Championships and have a 180-point lead over second-placed New Zealand.
Pakistan will play three ODIs against Netherlands and two T20Is against Ireland in July next year before they play two Tests in England.
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