Culprits of defeat: 3 reasons… due to which Team India got defeated in its own home

New Delhi. The Indian team, which made a clean sweep in the Test series against Bangladesh, has had to face defeat at home against New Zealand. Team India has lost the test series at home. Today is a historic day for New Zealand, which has captured the Test series for the first time by defeating India at home. The Kiwi team has been touring India since 1955 but had to wait till 2024 to win the series. New Zealand has won the 3-match series from India by winning two consecutive test matches. In the Pune test match, it defeated India by 113 runs. In the first test, the visiting team defeated Team India by 8 wickets. With this, India’s sequence of winning 18 consecutive Test series at home was also broken. After losing the series, the Indian team is being heavily criticized. India lost the test series due to these 3 reasons.

The Indian team has always been strong against spin at home. But in the first two tests against New Zealand, Team India has proved to be a weak link against spinners. Experienced spinner Mitchell Santner took a total of 13 wickets in the Pune Test match. After losing the Bangalore Test match, the Indian team had laid the trap of spin in Pune but Team India seemed to be trapped in its own trap. It had probably forgotten that the Kiwi team has spin bowlers like Santner and Ajaz Patel who can wreak havoc on the spin track. Can be demolished and the same happened in Pune. Santner did not allow the Indian batsmen to play freely and kept them under control due to which the Indian batsmen kept losing wickets one after the other. By losing the Pune Test, the Indian team has also lost the series.

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Kohli-Rohit’s bat silent
The bats of star cricketers Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have been silent for the last few matches. Both the players are continuously failing. In both the innings of Pune Test, Rohit scored zero and 8 runs while Virat Kohli was out after scoring one and 17 runs. Both the players easily surrendered to the spinner. The biggest reason for the Indian team’s series defeat was the inability of these players to perform. Both are going through bad form at the moment. Rohit has scored only 104 runs in the last 8 Test innings at an average of 14. If we look at the last 8 Test innings of Virat Kohli, his/her scores during this period have been 6,17,47, 29, 0, 70,1 and 17 runs.

middle order super flop
The main reason for this defeat is the failure of the middle order of the Indian team. The veteran batsman flopped in the middle order. From the opener to the middle order, he/she was seen struggling for runs. Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja and Ashwin could not do anything special in Pune. It would not be wrong to say that when it came to taking up the responsibility of the middle order, he/she did not try to sail the team. Star players came to the crease one after another and returned to the pavilion.

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