IND vs NZ 3rd Test: Team India will try to save its honour, coach Gautam Gambhir said – I am confident that…

New Delhi. The Indian team has never faced such conditions before on home soil and now in the third and final Test match starting on Friday, November 1 in Mumbai, its aim will be to save face and prevent New Zealand from making a clean sweep. India had to face defeat in the first two matches against New Zealand and lost the home series for the first time in the last 12 years.

India’s move to create a spin-friendly pitch has backfired and now it needs to play the third and final Test match at the Wankhede Stadium to remain in the race for a place in the final of the World Test Championship to be held in June next year. The Indian team still has to play six Test matches in the current cycle of the World Test Championship and to make it to the finals, it will have to win at least four of these matches.

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In the second Test match played in Pune, the Indian team’s skill in playing spin bowlers was exposed. This is the reason why the team called 20 slow bowlers for practice for the third Test match and canceled the optional practice session. The Indian team made a good comeback in the second innings of the first Test match played in Bengaluru, but the Indian batsmen could not face the fast bowlers in the first match and the spin bowlers in the second match.

India has so far scored 46, 156 and 245 runs in three out of four innings, which shows the poor performance of its batsmen. All this has happened with the Indian team when it soon has to tour Australia for a five-Test series. “I’m not saying whatever happened is hurtful,” India head coach Gautam Gambhir said on the eve of the match. We must feel pain and this pain will make us better. I am confident that this will help young players to become better players.

Indian team for Test series: Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin. , Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Akashdeep, Washington Sundar

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