The jungle drums are beating loudly for India following their historic 3-0 home series loss to New Zealand – their first such defeat in a three-Test series in India. Having already surrendered the series with losses in the first two Tests for their first home series loss in 12 years, India capitulated on a turning Mumbai surface, bowled out for 121 chasing just 146 for victory as Black Caps spinner Ajaz Patel claimed figures of 6/57 for an eleven-wicket match haul. NEW ZEALAND WIN & IT'S 3-0.
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com/0FTfp6tEYZ While the Black Caps’ performance has been widely praised, with New Zealand Herald writer Kris Shannon dubbing the triumph ‘one of the best results for any nation in Test history’ and the players as ‘Kiwi sporting deities’, the fallout has been even more emphatic for the vanquished hosts. More Cricket “India weren’t just poor, they were abysmal,” wrote R Kaushik for the Hindustan Times . “As if defeats in the first two Tests weren’t bad enough, the abject capitulation in the third game, chasing a modest 147 for victory, plunged the team to the humiliating depths Indian cricket hasn’t experienced in the last 90 years.
“There seemed to be no method to their batting, no guts and steel and application and determination, with the honourable exception of Rishabh Pa.
