Wow! India wins the series 3-0. And in what manner! Sehwag and Gambhir just dismissed the opposition attack with utter disdain to race to the modified target of 201/0 in 23.3 over to register a comprehensive series win.
The result just confimed the superiority of the visitors over the host as a side more than anything else. And many people like Sourav Ganguly, who had been adamantly refusing to acknowledge this side's capability in overseas conditions (read Dhoni's captaincy). despite the success in T-20 world cup in South Africa, the tri-series win in Australia, a long due one day series victory in Srilanka (achieved twice now in quick succession) have yet again been proved wrong.
Team India has improved in this series by leaps and bounds. Coming into the T-20 series without a practice game, with as many as seven guys playing in New Zealand for the very first time, they struggled to adapt in the first match and lost the second match by a whisker.
And from then on, it has been only a men-in-deep-blue show all along.
Though almost each and every member from the New Zealand side have spoken highly on the prowess of team India, deep down they certainly believed that they were always the front runners for the series. More so after beating India 2-0 in the T-20 series. This is not hard to figure out if you closely follow their post match interviews and a few other interactions with the media.
They keep on emphasizing on the fact that they have failed to bowl at the right areas to the strong batting line up, thereby allowed India to win matches. But the fact remains that they were beaten by a better side and all those bad bowling happened only due to the savage attack that they came under upfront.
Today when Vettori said that they would consider they were 2-3 down including the T-20s, he was only consoling himself and his side, as those two initial matches were kind of used by team India to acclimatize themselves with the conditions and once that happened there was no stopping.
I'm sure we are going to witness an engaging test series as well.
The result just confimed the superiority of the visitors over the host as a side more than anything else. And many people like Sourav Ganguly, who had been adamantly refusing to acknowledge this side's capability in overseas conditions (read Dhoni's captaincy). despite the success in T-20 world cup in South Africa, the tri-series win in Australia, a long due one day series victory in Srilanka (achieved twice now in quick succession) have yet again been proved wrong.
Team India has improved in this series by leaps and bounds. Coming into the T-20 series without a practice game, with as many as seven guys playing in New Zealand for the very first time, they struggled to adapt in the first match and lost the second match by a whisker.
And from then on, it has been only a men-in-deep-blue show all along.
Though almost each and every member from the New Zealand side have spoken highly on the prowess of team India, deep down they certainly believed that they were always the front runners for the series. More so after beating India 2-0 in the T-20 series. This is not hard to figure out if you closely follow their post match interviews and a few other interactions with the media.
They keep on emphasizing on the fact that they have failed to bowl at the right areas to the strong batting line up, thereby allowed India to win matches. But the fact remains that they were beaten by a better side and all those bad bowling happened only due to the savage attack that they came under upfront.
Today when Vettori said that they would consider they were 2-3 down including the T-20s, he was only consoling himself and his side, as those two initial matches were kind of used by team India to acclimatize themselves with the conditions and once that happened there was no stopping.
I'm sure we are going to witness an engaging test series as well.
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