After almost 36 years, New Zealand finally won a test match in India. In the first match of the Test series played in Bengaluru, New Zealand defeated India by 8 wickets. On the last day of the match, Sunday 20 October, New Zealand achieved the target of 107 runs required to win and took a 1-0 lead in the series. In this defeat of Team India, middle order batsman KL Rahul is everyone's target, who failed in both the innings. But in this match, not only Rahul, but also the performance of two other great players of the team was not as expected. These two stars are Ravichandran Ashwin and Mohammed Siraj. Especially Ashwin disappointed the most.

KL Rahul could not even open his account in the first innings of the match but Team India was bundled out for only 46 runs in this innings. In such a situation, Rahul alone could not be blamed. However, when Team India made a strong comeback in the second innings and every key batsman in the batting order contributed, KL Rahul failed there too. Rahul, who came to bat at number six, was out after scoring only 12 runs, after which there was a sudden collapse of the wicket. Although, the ball on which he was out was almost impossible to play but still the failure was his own.

Didn't even trust Ashwin!

Since then, everyone is talking about Rahul and demanding his ouster from the team, but apart from Rahul, Ashwin and Siraj also did not make much of an impact. The biggest disappointment came from star all-rounder Ashwin, who was the player of the series against Bangladesh. Ashwin has been the biggest match winner of Team India for the last decade in any Test match held in India, but this Test match did not prove to be good for him at all. In the first innings, he was targeted by the Kiwi batsmen. And scored 94 runs in his 16 overs. He got only one wicket.

If this was not enough, what happened in the second innings was the biggest shock for Ashwin. In the second innings, when Team India was looking for a wicket, captain Rohit Sharma did not even express confidence in him. When New Zealand was just 10 runs away from victory, they were handed the ball for the first time. This had hardly ever happened before in the career of Ashwin, who had played 62 Test matches in India before this, but this is enough to tell how bad this match proved to be for him.

Even bad luck can't hide Siraj's failure

However, considering the way the star off-spinner has always performed well, it can be understood that one match turned out to be bad. But Mohammed Siraj once again failed to impress in the home test match and Team India missed Mohammed Shami. Not only Shami, but Akash Deep, who played only 3 test matches, also looked more effective in the last series. In the first innings, Siraj took two important wickets for Team India but during this he was also beaten a lot. He gave away 84 runs in 16 overs and did not look effective at all.

However, Siraj was a bit unlucky in the second innings as he troubled the Kiwi batsmen a lot in the initial spell of 5-6 overs and dodged the bat but still did not get success. However, this is not surprising because his performance in India has not been good. Siraj has been able to take only 19 wickets in the 13 tests played here. In such a situation, the chances of him sitting out of the next test are quite high.