The most important match of the year will start today at The Rose Bowl, Southampton cricket ground between the world’s no 1 test ranked team New Zealand and the world’s second no ranked team India. The New Zealand team got 2,593 points in 21 matches with a rating of 123. The India cricket team played 24 matches and they got a rating of 121, with 2,914 points.
From 1955 to 2020, a total of 65 years of test cricket between India and New Zealand, 59 test matches had been played. 0 matches tied, 26 drawn, 12 won by the New Zealand team and 21 won by the India team. The last time these two teams played two test matches in New Zealand in Feb 2020 and both won by the home team.
New Zealand played two test matches recently against England, First test was drawn, second test New Zealand won by Eight wickets. Devon Philip Conway a new batsman in the New Zealand test squad scored double-hundred in the second test of his life against England. He scored 306 in two test matches and he was the top runs scorer of the series. TG Southee bowled magically this month against the home team, he took seven wickets, N Wagner also took seven wickets, MJ Henry 6, TA Boult 6, AY Patel 4, KA Jamieson 3.
Toss: ?
Form guide
India: WWWLW (last five completed matches, most recent first)
New Zealand: WDWWW
IND vs NZ Highlights today Friday, 6-18-2021 – Final, ICC World Test Championship from The Rose Bowl, Southampton.
India team: 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Cheteshwar Pujara, 4 Virat Kohli (capt), 5 Ajinkya Rahane, 6 Rishabh Pant (wk), 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 R Ashwin, 9 Ishant Sharma, 10 Mohammed Shami, 11 Jasprit Bumrah.
New Zealand team: 1 Tom Latham, 2 Devon Conway, 3 Kane Williamson (capt), 4 Ross Taylor, 5 Henry Nicholls, 6 BJ Watling (wk), 7 Colin de Grandhomme, 8 Tim Southee, 9 Ajaz Patel/Kyle Jamieson, 10 Neil Wagner, 11 Trent Boult.
Match Timings: 10:00 GMT | 11:00 Local | 02:00 IND
Umpires – Michael Gough, Richard Illingworth
TV Umpires – Richard Kettleborough
Match Referee – Chris Broad
Reserve Umpire – Alex Wharf
Match number – Test no. 2425
