Team India's winning streak in the home Test series has been broken. The Indian team's reign of winning 18 consecutive series has ended. After 12 years, New Zealand has become the first team to beat India in a Test series at home. After the win in Pune, New Zealand has taken an unassailable 2-0 lead and now its eyes are on the third match to be held at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. After this crushing defeat, head coach Gautam Gambhir has become strict. Before the Mumbai Test, he has taken a big step to achieve victory.

Players were deprived of their rest

Now the next match between India and New Zealand is going to start from 1st November. Before this, the players of the Indian team were given 2 days rest for recovery. That means, after the rest on 27th and 28th October, the players will again start preparing for the next match. Meanwhile, the team management has taken a big decision. In fact, according to the report of Indian Express, sources associated with the team have said that all the players have been asked to be present for two days of practice on 30th and 31st October. The big thing in this is that both these practice sessions are mandatory. No player of the team can leave it. This means that the players have lost one day's rest.

earlier there was a discount

Let us tell you that till now players had the option to leave net practice a day before the match. So that, he can remain fresh for the competition. In such a situation, usually the fast bowlers and senior players of the team used to skip the practice session or do light training before the Test match. Looking at workload management, this was a very common practice in the Indian team and the players were following it for a long time. But before the Mumbai Test, which is important from the point of view of the World Test Championship final, Gambhir has taken strict action and made it necessary to train on both the days.

How many wins are required to reach the WTC finals?

Before the Pune Test, Team India was on top in the WTC points table with 68.06 percentage points. After the second consecutive defeat, the percentage point has now come down to 62.82. However, India still remains at number one. Rohit Sharma's team now has a total of 6 matches left in this cycle, out of which 1 match is against New Zealand and the remaining 5 matches are against Australia at home. If the Indian team has to make it to the final without being dependent on any team, then it will have to win at least 4 of these matches.