IND vs NZ: IND Lost After 24 Years At Home Despite Of Target More Than 100

In the first IND vs NZ Test match, India lost at home despite giving a target of more than 100 after 24 years
This is the second time in the last 20 years that India has lost two Tests at home in the same year.

India had to face defeat by eight wickets in the first match of the three-Test series played between India and New Zealand in Bengaluru. This defeat will not only affect India’s campaign in the current cycle of the World Test Championship but there are many unwanted statistics in this match that have come to India’s share. Let’s take a look at these figures.

India’s unwanted stats made in IND vs NZ 1st Test match

3  This is New Zealand’s third win in 37 Test matches played in India. Earlier, they had won in Nagpur in 1969 and at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai in 1988.

 

2  This is the second time in 20 years that India has lost two Tests at home in a year. The eight-wicket defeat in Bengaluru was their second defeat at home this year. In January 2024, India also lost against England in Hyderabad. They had earlier lost two consecutive Tests against England at home in 2012.

 

24 This is the first time in 24 years that a visiting team has chased a target of 100+ in a Test in India. The previous highest was achieved by South Africa at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai in 2000. Since then, India has defended 100+ targets 23 times out of 32 at home, with nine matches ending in draws.

 

4.83 In the Bengaluru Test, India’s spinners conceded runs at an economy rate of 4.83. Prior to this, only in one Test have India’s spinners conceded runs at an economy rate higher than this while bowling 300+ balls. They conceded runs at an economy rate of 5.60 against South Africa in 2010. Earlier at home, Indian spinners had given runs at an economy of 4.53 against England in Visakhapatnam this year.

 

4.93 In Bengaluru, spinners of both teams gave runs at an economy of 4.93. This is the second-highest economy in a Test in which spinners have bowled more than 600 balls. Earlier in 2006, in the India-Pakistan Lahore Test, spinners had given runs at an economy of 5.13.

 

2005 Earlier, India had lost a Test match at Bengaluru’s Chinnaswamy Stadium in 2005. After this, India played a total of eight Test matches at this venue, in which it won five, and three matches were drawn. New Zealand had earlier played three Test matches in Bengaluru and lost all three.

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