New Zealand Tour of India

New Zealand is starting his test tour of India on 23^rd August 2012 with first test match in Hyderabad.

New Zealand will play 2 tests and 2 twenty twenty matches against the home side.

The she dual of this series is

               Date                                                                                              Match

Thursday August 23                                                      1st Test - India v New Zealand
                                                                           Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

Friday August 31                                                           2nd Test - India v New Zealand
                                                                                  M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Saturday September 8                                                1st T20I - India v New Zealand
                                                                             Indira Priyadarshini Stadium, Visakhapatnam

Tuesday September 11                                                2nd T20I - India v New Zealand
                                                                             MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

India is always hot favorite on his home ground. It’s the test of New Zealand in India because they are facing some problems. 

1.     Their main spin bowler Vettori is injured and out of Indian tour.

2.     There are no warm-ups matches for New Zealand ahead of India Tests.

3.     The weather of India is very hot in these days and it will be very tough for Kiwi’s to adjust in this weather without any warm-ups.

The good news for India is that there spin bowler harbajan singh is back.