 "IND vs NZ 3rd Test: India hit new low after 3-0 Test series loss, Ajaz Patel continues to impress at Wankhede and more stats")
Team India were on the receiving end of things during the recently-concluded three-match Test series against New Zealand after they were outplayed in all departments. India suffered a rare Test series defeat at home, their first in 12 years, and in the third Test in Mumbai, things turned from bad to worse following a 25-run loss .
India were looking to chase a target of 147 on Day three of the third Test in Mumbai on Sunday, but the hosts were undone by the visitors’ spinners led by Ajaz Patel (6/57) and Glenn Phillips (3/42). Rishabh Pant (64) fought a lone battle without the support of his partners at the other end, and India were dismissed for a paltry 121 n 29.1 overs. New Zealand thus registered a historic 3-0 win over India in India, something that no other team had achieved before.
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Having said that, quite a few records were broken during the course of the third India-New Zealand Test at the Maximum City. Let’s take a look:
—India suffered their first-ever 3-0 Test series whitewash at home when New Zealand won the third Test on Sunday. The only other time India were clean swept by a team in a home Test series was when South Africa won a two-match Test series 2-0 in 2000.
—Sunday was only the fourth instance where India failed to chase down a target below 200 runs (147) in a Test match. India were set a target of 120 against West Indies in Barbados in 1997, but were bowled out for 81. India had also failed to chase 176 against Sri Lanka in Galle in 2015, and 194 against England in Edgbaston six years ago.
—The total of 147 is also the second-lowest target that New Zealand have successfully defended in Tests. New Zealand had defended 137 against England during a Test in Wellington in 1978.
Impact Shorts
More Shorts—New Zealand have won each of the three Tests of a three-match Test series for the first-ever time.
—Rohit Sharma is in second place when it comes to India captains with most Test defeats at home. The legendary Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi had lost nine matches, whereas Rohit has lost five Tests at home till date as a captain.
—New Zealand’s Ajaz Patel broke Sr Ian Botham’s record to become the bowler with most Test wickets at a single venue in India while facing India. Ajaz has taken 25 wickets against India at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. The former England cricketer, on the other hand, had taken 22 wickets at the Wankhede Stadium.
—India equalled their record of four defeats at home in a year. India had lost four home Tests in 1969, the last and the only other time they have lost these many in a year.
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