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Kiwis defeated Team India is the Twenty20 series by 2-0 and then Team India defeated them in the ODI series by 3-1. Although New Zealand team performed brilliantly in the last ODI but that was not enough to stop Team India the series. Now, both the teams are switching back to the five days mode, but the presence of the dashing openers Virender Sehwag and Brandon McCullum in both the team is a fact that the test series is also going to be fully packed with boundaries and sixes.

So far New Zealand is only place where Team India is unable to win any test match from 1967/68. Dhoni’s brigade has so far created history by winning the maiden ODI series against Kiwis in New Zealand. Team India has the best opportunity to defeat Kiwis this time and create the history after four decades.

With the inclusion of the veteran batsman VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid in the Indian middle order, Team India is looking more stronger than the Kiwis. Batting line up of Team India includes the likes of Virender Sehwag, and Gautam Gabhir as the opener and the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, and VVS Laxman in the middle order. Also Team India is having the likes of Yuvraj Singh and Mahender Singh Dhoni in the middle order.

Also in the tail Team India is having the players like Harbhajan Singh, and Zaheer Khan who can also play useful knock at the time of need. Also when you compare both the team, you would become surprised to know that the sum of the total number of matches played by all the batsman of Kiwis is even less from the number of matches played by Sachin Tendulkar. The experience of the three gems of Team India, Sachin, Dravid and Laxman is far more than the entire Kiwis team.

If you also check the status of the last five test matches played by both the team then even Team India is much better than them, out of the last five test matches played by Kiwis they lost the two and 3 are drawn. On the other hand Team India won 3 test matches while 2 were drawn. Only hope for Kiwis is their bowling attack which includes Daniel Vettori and James Franklin. In the batting order Kiwis has the likes of Jesse Ryder and Brendon McCullum who can make big scores for them.

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