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A win to top all series wins: India v New Zealand, 3rd Test review

November 4, 2024·1 hr 7 min·4 clips

New Zealand have beaten India 3-0 in a Test series in India, a first in any three-match series or longer.

1. 81 All Out - A Cricket Podcast reviews New Zealand’s 3-0 Test-series win over India in India. 2. Siddhartha Vaidyanathan hosts the episode with Mahesh, Ashoka, and Kartikeya, the regular review-panel voices. 3. The episode asks how New Zealand won a three-Test series in India 3-0 and why that result felt so unexpected. 4. Siddhartha says India had never lost 3-0 in a three-match-or-longer Test series at home. 5. He compares the result with India’s previous 2-0 losses, including South Africa in 2000, and says this was the first time any team came to India and won that way. 6. The panel revisits the first Test, the second Test, and the third Test as the series kept getting “more bizarre and bizarre and bizarre.” 7. Siddhartha recalls pre-series guesses that New Zealand might win one match on a turning pitch or on a pace-friendly surface in Bangalore or Mumbai. 8. He says Bangalore partly fit that expectation, but the rest of the series moved far beyond those forecasts. 9. Mahesh says India’s long home record had made fans assume Ashwin and Jadeja would cover any pitch gamble. 10. He argues that the series showed early signs of tapering in India’s batting and perhaps bowling, even if the bowling decline was less obvious. 11. Mahesh points to diverse Indian failures, saying the losses cannot be reduced to one simple explanation like age, IPL cricket, or one selection mistake. 12. Kartikeya introduces runs per false shot as a way to measure how well batting and bowling handled risk under pressure. 13. He cites 469 outright Test results since 2011 and says 406 of them went to the side with the better runs-per-false-shot number. 14. He says India had the better runs-per-false-shot rate in both Pune and Mumbai and still lost both Tests. 15. Kartikeya also notes that New Zealand’s attacking batting was helped when the pitch started producing more turn and uneven bounce. 16. The hosts discuss how different India’s bowling options would have looked with Shami and Umesh Yadav available alongside Ashwin and Jadeja. 17. Ashoka shifts the conversation to the social reaction, describing nostalgia, fan wars, foreign opinions, corporate-accountability takes, and caste or gender arguments. 18. The episode’s tone moves between technical analysis, disagreement, and long stretches of comic irritation at online cricket discourse. 19. Listeners who enjoy detailed Test-cricket tactics and scorecard debate will get the most from it. 20. Listeners wanting a short, non-technical recap of the result may skip it.

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