Happy New Year 2025: This year, Team India got its biggest defeat at home in Test, Indian fans are heartbroken.

Cricket News Desk. Like every year, the year 2024 also brought many moments of happiness and sadness for cricket fans. Team India was successful in winning the T20 World Cup 2024 title in June. Thus, Team India's 11-year-old ICC Trophy title drought ended. Not even 4 months have passed since Team India became the T20 champion, when the team had to face such a crushing defeat in the Test that a series of shameful records were set. With winning the T20 World Cup 2024 title, captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja said goodbye to the 20-over format. With this tournament, the tenure of Team India coach Rahul Dravid has also ended. After this, Team India got a new coach and with that a new beginning began for Indian cricket.

About two and a half months after becoming champion, Team India got a chance to play its first Test series at home. Team India faced Bangladesh in this series. The Indian team did not face much difficulty in winning this series and Bangladesh achieved a clean sweep of 2-0. After winning this series, the confidence of Team India was at its peak and everyone expected that in the next series, the team will perform like Bangladesh which went on the tour of New Zealand. But all the plans of Team India were ruined when New Zealand surprised the entire cricket world by winning the first test. No one can easily believe that Team India lost the first Test on its home ground.

Team India has faced continuous defeats.
In this first test match played in Bengaluru, New Zealand defeated India by 8 wickets. In this way, the Kiwi team was successful in winning its first Test match on Indian soil after 1988 i.e. after 36 years. This was only the Kiwis' third win in 37 Test matches on Indian soil. After losing the 3-match series 0-1, Team India was burning for revenge, but as soon as the second Test match started in Pune, New Zealand once again tightened the screws and pushed Team India on the backfoot. In the end New Zealand won and achieved the great feat of winning a Test series on Indian soil for the first time in the history of Test cricket.

India suffered its biggest defeat on home ground
In the third and final match of the Test series, the Indian team seemed to be in a strong position, but the Kiwi team also conquered the fort of Mumbai and created a new history in Test cricket by making a 3-0 clean sweep of Team India. After trailing by 0 in the series, Team India registered a shameful record of biggest defeat in its name with this defeat. This was the first time that India had suffered a clean sweep in a series of three or more Test matches at home.