Two exciting tournaments are going on in the Oceania continent of Indian crickets. One is the India-New Zealand test cricket series other is the ICC Women World Cup cricket tournament. Winning the one-day series Indian camp is dreaming to take the lead of the Test series. The first Test match of the cricket series will be kicked off on 18 March 2009 at in Hamilton.
India has played more than 19 Tests matches in the away grounds of New Zealand when they just won 4tests only and the test of Hamilton is the 20th test match against New Zealand. By wining 10 tests cricket match the host is leading ahead. India last won over New Zealand by 8 wickets on 24 Jan 1976 in Auckland.
The success records last five matches of India is good but NZ’s record will not bring any anticipation. But, the Black Caps are very positive in their home series although they have no victories in the last five as well as India did get a loss in the last five where three wins and two draws.
India have proved that their batting line-up is very strong than any other teams at this moment. In the all matches they played in the couple of months, especially after taking the responsibility as a captain MS Dhoni leads the team. Sachin Tendulkar has back to his form as well as Virender Sehwag has stepped up three from his pervious position. Yuvraj Singh comes to the top ten list as an all-rounder.
The Pitch is very friendly to the batsmen and Indian already has introduced with it before. Wining toss and bat first will be a steps of entering in to the win-win session and the pacer will get extra facilities for this flat wickets. Weather concern is the big fact of the ongoing tours. But, the test will supposed to be free from this worried and they day will be hot and clear.
New Zealand has played 14 Test cricket matches at Seddon Park in Hamilton whenever bagged six wins, six drawn and two lost as well as India played three Test cricket but does not get any win. They had to satisfy with two drawn and one lost.
Test Squad of both teams:
New Zealand (likely): 1 Tim McIntosh, 2 Martin Guptill, 3 Daniell Flynn, 4 Ross Taylor, 5 Jesse Ryder, 6 James Franklin, 7 Brendon McCullum (wk), 8 Daniel Vettori (capt), 9 Kyle Mills, 10 Iain O'Brien, 11 Chris Martin/Brent Arnel
India (likely): 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag, 3 Rahul Dravid, 4 Sachin Tendulkar, 5 VVS Laxman, 6 Yuvraj Singh, 7 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt & wk), 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 L Balaji/ Munaf Patel.
This is a list of some websites that will show the test cricket matches live between India and New Zealand.
Cricinfo
Sify sports
action8cricket
cricketnext
Headlinesindia.com
CRICBUZZ
123INDIA.COM
Cricket365
Thatscricket