Reasons Why India Lost Test Series Against New Zealand: The New Era Indian Batters Struggle To Play Spin

The Indian fans had their heart shattered after the pride of not being defeated at home for 12 years came to an end when New Zealand outplayed India on their own turf.

For many, it might be very surprising to see India lose the test series with a one-sided result in favor of touring opponents, but it was not just a fluke as for the last 10 years, the Indian team has been struggling with their approach in the test match but because the results went to Indian way mostly especially in the Foreign tour where the 90’s and early 20’s team struggled to win the series the New Indian team able to win it twice in Australia but the batting lineup of the new Indian batters kept on struggling time to time which now been seen in the New Zealand and India series.

Indian Test Batting And Team In-Depth Analysis Alongside The Struggles Over A Decades

The Indian team saw a higher percentage of collapse from 2014-2024 than any era since 2002-2012. We are going to see the Indian batting collapses with the decade timeline that will clearly tell you that in the last decade, the collapses of the Indian batting team increased way more than they used to happen from 2002 to 2013. We are also going to analyze how last decade’s batters struggled to play spin compared to the 20’s era players and also how many times India was able to score the 500 mark in the Test in the last decade.

Indian Test Batting And Team In-Depth Analysis Alongside The Struggles Over A Decades.

Indian Batting Collapse Percentage (%) With Decade Timeline

As we all know India started to become a more cricket-playing nation after they won their first World Cup in 1983 when no one had given them a chance, but after that, the country saw a huge hike in kids playing cricket, and since then, it has become the most loved sport in India.

If you look at the table, the very early decade of 1934 to 1960 saw a huge percentage of collapse, but the matches they played were also too few. At that time, cricket used to be played under the British government, but after India won the World Cup in 1983, there was a substantial hike in performance, which is why the collapse rate went quite down. From 2002 to 2012, the Indian team has one of the best batters ever in cricket history. Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Saurav Ganguly, VVS Laxman, and Rahul Dravid, the collapse was just 7.56, which is a fair comparison with 2014-2024, but the collapse % is double in the modern era.

It is true that India started winning more foreign tours under Virat Kohli, who is notably the best captain the Indian team had in tests because of his fighting approach. Still, there was a sensibility in that approach compared to what Rohit Sharma and Gautam Gambhir wanted.

Under Virat Kohli from 2014 to 2022, India did not lose any home test series and was even able to win a back-to-back tour of Australia. They even drew the first-ever series with England in England, which could have been a winning series if the Covid had not interrupted and the first match had not washed out due to rain.

Lack Of Ability to Stay At The Crease For a Long Time To Reach 500 Run Mark

The last 14 years have been great for the Indian team as they reached two World Test Championship finals, which is based on the winning % of the teams. That is one of the reasons why the Indian team changed their approach to playing aggressive cricket. Still, it also became one of the main reasons why they struggled to score 500 plus mark, which is something the team used to do till 2010.

Still, after that, most teams started to play test cricket with a high run rate, and England was the first to adapt to Baseball, which gave them a high winning rate. They also struggled when they came to India, where their Bazball method failed to justify itself, and this also happened with India at their own home.

The Indian team has failed to stay on the crease for a long time in the last decade, and this is one of the reasons why they are struggling to defend or turn the losing match into a draw. Players fail to play a defensive game, and it is one of the drawbacks that the Indian team is going to see if they keep on going with the Bazball approach.

Modern Era Indian Batters Struggle Against Spin vs Early 20’s Era Indian Batters Record Against Spin In the Home and Away Condition

We are going to look at the four Modern Era batters, Dismissals vs early 20’s Era batters Dismissals.

1. Virat Kohli Dismissals At Home and Away Test Matches

2. Cheteshwar Pujara Dismissals At Home and Away Test Matches

3. Rahul Dravid Dismissals At Home and Away Test Matches

3. Sachin Tendulkar Dismissals At Home and Away Test Matches

Note: Sachin played a double number of matches compared to Virat and Pujara.

Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma Stats against Spinners In Tests

Rohit Sharma Test Stats Against Different Spinners

Virat Kohli Test Stats Against Different Spinners

These stats clearly indicate that spin has been the vulnerability for the Indian batters who have been struggling to play against the type of bowling against which they were known as the best batters. As Virender Sehwag always said, for him, playing against spinners was never a tough task, especially against the off-spinners.

India Need New Spinners?

Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja failed once again to deliver victory for team India, as only Washington Sundar was able to take 11 wickets. Ashwin now became very used to bowling even after having a lot of varieties, but in those numerous varieties, his orthodox off-spin is long gone, which used to struggle the batters.

Will Gautam Gambhir And Rohit Sharma Over Agressive Play Going To Cost India Loose Border Gavaskar Trophy?

After this series, India will go to Australia and will look forward to winning the third tour, but this time, it is looking way harder than it looked during the COVID-19 time when India was only filled with youngsters. The captaincy of Rohit has not been great as he is not giving a second new ball to Bumrah, who is still the best option for them to take wickets, but other than him, no pace is promising to pick wickets for India, which is one of the main reasons why India struggling.

The India team announced the squad for the five-match test series, and while not many changes were made, many questions were raised about the squad.

India’s squad for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy

Rohit Sharma (C), Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (WK), Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (WK), R Ashwin, R Jadeja, Mohd. Siraj, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar.

Reserves: Mukesh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Khaleel Ahmed

Once again, Rinku Singh, who has an average of 54 in first-class cricket, and Ruturaj Gaikwad, who has an average of 52 in 2024, were once again ignored by the selectors. In the pace bowling unit, Harshit Rana and Nitish Kumar Reddy were given the first foreign tour maiden call-up, and there might be a chance that Harshit Rana could play in the squad after Siraj failed to keep up with his bowling.

Nathon Lyon will be one of India’s main threats, as he took 121 wickets in 27 Tests. The Indian team struggled against him, but in the last test match, Rishabh Pant took him on and scored many runs against him.

It’s time for India to think collectively, especially for Gautam Gambhir, who succeeded in the T20I format but failed as the Indian coach till now because India lost the ODI series against Sri Lanka after a decade under him and then now lost the test series against New Zealand at home. It is quite clear that most Indian batters are not meant to play aggressive cricket, and they should be allowed to play their own style, just like they did under Kohli.

Gambhir spoke a lot of harsh words for Ravi Shastri, but he did not win anything as the coach, so it’s better for him to keep his voice down and focus on the game rather than on the controversies to make the team India the new platform like Bigboss. He even talked thrashly about foreign coaches and said that they only came here to earn money, but he appointed Morne Morkel and Ryan ten Doeschate as the assistant coaches.

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