2016 New Zealand Tour of India - India Vs New Zealand First Test @Green Park,Kanpur Sep 22-26,2016

A formidable Indian cricket team is expected to dominate the visiting New Zealand by revelling in home conditions in its historic 500th Test match, which will herald the beginning of a long 13-match home season in Kanpur on Thursday Sep 22,2016

Even history is heavily stacked against the visitors, who have not won a Test on the Indian soil in their last 14 attempts. The last Test New Zealand won in India was way back in 1998

In complete contrast, India have won nine of their last 10 Tests played at home and the only draw was against South Africa in 2015 in Bangalore and that too because it was a weather-affected contest.

There is an extra bit of statistics and history attached with the match for it being the team's 500th Test match since it started playing the game 80 years back.

The team played its first ever Test when it was a British colony in 1932 but over the years, has established itself as a force in world cricket.

India - New Zealand Head-to-Head in Tests

Total = 51 : India 17, New Zealand 9, Draw 25.
In India = 30 : India 12, New Zealand 2, Draw 16.
In New Zealand = 21 : India 5, New Zealand 7, Draw 9.

 India - New Zealand Test Series Head-to-Head

There have been 17 test series between India and New Zealand now, upto 2010 New Zealand tour of India.

 9 have been played in India and 8 in New Zealand.

 India have won 2 test series in New Zealand (the very first one they played, way back in 1968 & the last one in 2010), whereas Kiwis have never registered a test series win in India.

 In total, India have won 9 test series against New Zealand, with New Zealand winning 4 and remaining 4 resulting in draw.

Squads

New Zealand
Kane Williamson (capt), Trent Boult, Doug Bracewell, Mark Craig, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Tom Latham, James Neesham, Henry Nicholls, Luke Ronchi, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Ross Taylor, Neil Wagner and BJ Watling.
India
 Virat Kohli (capt), Shikhar Dhawan, Murali Vijay, KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, Wriddhiman Saha, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshvar Kumar, Amit Mishra, R Ashwin, Umesh Yadav.

Day One Thursday Sep 22,2016 - India Vs New Zealand First Test @Green Park,Kanpur

Former players and officials pose for the celebration of India's 500th Test, India v New Zealand, 1st Test, Kanpur, 1st day, September 22, 2016

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) felicitated former India Test captains ahead of the historic 500th Test at Green park stadium in Kanpur on Thursday Sep 22,2016

Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association president Rajeev Shukla felicitated former captains, including Ajit Wadekar, Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Kris Srikkanth, Ravi Shastri, Mohammad Azharuddin, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Anil Kumble and Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

The former captains were honoured with a shawl, a memento and a coin with the words “500th Test” written on it.

Conspicuous by their absence, former India captains Bishan Singh Bedi and Gundappa Viswanath were reportedly not invited by the BCCI for the historic 500th Test match.

The 69-year-old Bedi has led India in 22 Tests while Viswanath has captained in two Tests.

India played its inaugural Test in June 1932 against England at the iconic Lord’s ground.

A total of 285 players have played Test cricket for India in which they had 32 captains starting from C.K. Nayudu to Virat Kohli and will join England (976), Australia (791) and West Indies (517) in reaching the 500 mark.



India won the toss and chose to bat first

Scorecard
India 318/10 in 97 Overs and 377/5 Declared in 107.2 Overs with Jadeja 50* and Rohit Sharma 68*
New Zealand 262/10 in 95.5 Overs and 236/10 in 87.3 Overs
Match Result - India won by 197 Runs
MOM - Ravindra Jadeja (India)for his 42* and 5/73(34 Overs and 50* and 1/58(34 Overs)
Ravichandran Ashwin took 10 wickets in the Test - 4/93(30.5 Overs)and 6/132(35.3 Overs)