The Indian cricket team hit a new low on Saturday (October 26) after losing the second Test against New Zealand by 113 runs at the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) Stadium in Pune. The Rohit Sharma-led team have lost the three-match series as a result, with one match remaining.
Before the defeat in Pune, the hosts were shocked by the Tom Latham-led side in Bengaluru with an eight-wicket defeat. India trail 2-0 in the series and have lost a Test series on home soil after 12 years, ending a world record streak of 18 series victories in a row.
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The result means that for the first time in 41 years, India has lost three home tests in a calendar year. Before the twin defeats against New Zealand, the Rohit Sharma-led team lost the first test of a five-match Test series against England at Hyderabad by 28 runs. However, the home team recovered to win the remaining four Test matches and seal an emphatic 4-1 victory in the series.
This is the only time in India's 92-year-old history of playing Test cricket that they have lost three home tests in a year. The first time this happened was in 1969, when they lost four Tests at home, with one defeat against New Zealand at Nagpur and three against Australia in Mumbai, Kolkata, and Chennai.
The second instance occurred in 1983, just months after winning the World Cup with a 3-0 defeat in a Test series against the West Indies, with the visitors winning Test matches in Kanpur, Ahmedabad, and Kolkata.
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India have lost two Test matches in the same year only 15 times (1952, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1966, 1969, 1974, 1977, 1983, 1987, 1999, 2000, 2004, and 2012).
Overall, India have played 293 Test matches at home, won 120 games, lost 57, and drawn 115 with one tie.