New Zealand ended 69 years of drought, stopped Team India's winning streak, suffered a shameful defeat at home after 18 series.

Cricket News Desk. New Zealand cricket team has created history by defeating India by 113 runs in the second test match played in Pune. With this match, New Zealand took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match Test series and won the Test series in India for the first time. With this, India has lost a Test series at home after 12 years.

Before New Zealand, England had defeated India in their home Test series in 2012. Since then, Team India was continuously winning at home, but their winning streak was stopped by New Zealand. The Indian team has won 18 consecutive series at home but now its winning streak has stopped.

Team India missed the opportunity
India had more than two and a half days to win this match. On the third day on Saturday, in the first session, the host bowlers took the remaining five wickets of New Zealand. The New Zealand team collapsed for 255 runs in the second innings. On the basis of the first innings, they had a lead of 103 runs, on the basis of which the Kiwi team gave a target of 359 runs to India. Even after two and a half days, Team India could not achieve this score and lost.
Team India was looking in good condition at one time and the reason for this was Yashasvi Jaiswal-Shubhman Gill. After Rohit Sharma's early dismissal, both of them took charge of the team. Gill (23) was dismissed by Mitchell Santner at the total score of 96. Yashasvi was standing at the other end so no problem was visible. He was scoring runs in his mischievous style.

missed a successful century
The way Yashasvi was playing, it seemed that he would complete a century. However, like the first innings, Santner troubled India in this innings too. He did not allow Yashasvi to complete his century. This left-handed batsman was out after scoring 77 runs in 65 balls with the help of nine fours and three sixes. From here again India's wickets kept falling.
Rishabh Pant (0) was run out while Virat Kohli became the victim of Shatakvir after scoring 17 runs. Sarfaraz Khan also implicated Santner in his conspiracy. Sarfaraz could score only nine runs. Glenn Phillips gave a big blow to India's hopes by taking the wicket of Washington Sundar.

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