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

India’s attempt to create a spin-friendly pitch has backfired and will now have to play the third and final Test match at the Wankhede Stadium to stay in the race for a place in the final of the World Test Championship in June next year. The Indian team must be in the In the current cycle of the World Test Championship, it has to play six more test matches and to get to the final it has to win at least four of these games.

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The Indian team’s spin bowling prowess was showcased in the second Test match in Pune. Due to this, the team called up 20 slow bowlers to train for the third Test match and canceled the optional training session. The Indian team made a good comeback in the second innings of the first Test match in Bengaluru, but the Indian batsmen could not cope with the fast bowlers in the first game and the spin bowlers in the second game.

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

Indian Test Series Team: 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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