End of 2024: Like every year, 2024 has also brought many happy and sad moments for cricket fans. India won the 2024 T20 World Cup in June. With this, the Indian team’s 11-year ICC Trophy title drought came to an end. Less than four months after becoming T20 champions, the Indian team suffered a disastrous defeat in the Tests and set a series of humiliating records. With winning the 2024 T20 World Cup, captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja bid farewell to the top-20 format. With this tournament, the tenure of India coach Rahul Dravid also comes to an end. Since then, the Indian team has changed to a new coach and Indian cricket has begun a new beginning.
After winning the title, India got a chance to play the first Test series at home about two and a half months later. India plays Bangladesh in this series. The Indian team did not encounter much difficulty in this series and eventually swept the Bangladesh team 2-0. After winning this series, the confidence of the Indian team has reached its peak and everyone is expecting that in the next series, the Indian team will also treat the visiting New Zealand like they did Bangladesh. But all the plans of the Indian team came to naught when New Zealand shocked the entire cricketing world by winning the first Test. No one could easily believe that India lost the first Test at home.
Indian team suffers losing streak
New Zealand defeated India by 8 wickets in the first Test match at Bangalore. In this way, New Zealand successfully won its first Test match on Indian soil in 1988, 36 years later. This was only New Zealand’s third victory in 37 Test matches on Indian soil. After trailing 0-1 in the three-match series, the Indian team was eager for revenge, but when the second Test match began in Pune, New Zealand pressed hard again and put India on the back foot. In the end, New Zealand emerged victorious, achieving the great feat of winning the series on Indian soil for the first time in the history of Test cricket.
India suffers biggest defeat at home
In the third and final match of the Test series, the Indian team was considered to be in a strong position, but New Zealand also conquered the Mumbai Fort and swept the New Zealand team 3-0 to create a new history in Test cricket. India in the series. This defeat allowed the Indian team to set a humiliating record of the largest defeat. This was the first time that India had swept three or more consecutive Test matches at home.
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