India vs New Zealand 1st Test Match

India and New Zealand are set to play the first Test from 21 February to 25 February at the Basin Reserve in Wellington. The two-match Test series is the last of India tour of New Zealand.

The scheduled timing of the match is 11:30 A.M. local, 4:00 A.M. IST. The match will be live broadcast on Star Sports 1, Star Sports 1 HD, Star Sports 1 Hindi and Star Sports 1 HD Hindi. Since 2000, India have won just one Test match in New Zealand and will look forward to make the stats two after winning this time.

In the last 3 test matches that team India has played on this ground, they have lost 1 and managed to draw two. So, quite clearly this has not been a happy hunting ground for team India, but under the aggressive and determined blue men will look to change this.

Weather Report:

No rain is expected at Basin Reserve in Wellington during the course of the game. The temperatures during the match time will be around 20°C to 22°C.

Pitch report

The pitch of Basin Reserve is pretty good for batting with a fair amount of grass on it for the first two days. It also favours spinners.

Probable Playing XI:

New Zealand

Tom Latham, Tom Blundell, Kane Williamson ©, Ross Taylor, Henry Nicholls, BJ Watling (WK), Colin de Grandhomme, Tim Southee, Kyle Jamieson, Trent Boult, Ajaz Patel.

Bench: Daryl Mitchell and Matt Henry.

India

Prithvi Shaw, Mayank Agarwal, CheteshwarPujara, ViratKohli ©, AjinkyaRahane,HanumaVihari, WriddhimanSaha/Rishabh Pant (WK), RavindraJadeja/RavichandranAshwin, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami, JaspritBumrah.Bench: Shubman Gill, Rishabh Pant/WriddhimanSaha, RavichandranAshwin/ RavindraJadeja, Umesh Yadav, and Navdeep Saini.