Delhi: Note the record of 3 matches in One Day International against India in recent months:
23 October 2025 Adelaide: Australia chased the target of 265 runs and won (record of successful run chase against India in Adelaide)
3 December 2025 Raipur: South Africa chased the target of 359 runs and won (South Africa’s record of successful run chase against India in India)
14 January 2026 Rajkot: New Zealand chased the target of 285 runs and won (New Zealand’s record of successful run chase against India in India)

In every series, a new unwanted record. After these three records, one must ask what is going wrong? Talking about the latest Rajkot match, note that New Zealand got its first ODI win over India after 8 consecutive defeats since 2023 and in India, they got their first win against India after 8 consecutive defeats since 2017.

Special 5 facts which were responsible for these records in Rajkot:

Question on Ravindra Jadeja’s usefulness:

Not a single ODI 50 has been scored in India since 1914. The truth is that out of his 13 ODI 50s, only 2 were made in India and the last one was made almost 13 years ago on 15 January 2013. On the basis of this record, how does he occupy the place of a useful player in the team? He was called back to the ODI team in place of Akshar Patel.

What rotation policy is responsible for:

T20 World Cup is not far away, so is giving opportunity to reserve players to play in the rotation policy responsible for this? In this matter, a lesson has to be learned from the policy of West Indies and Australia: Do not do any experiment which reduces the chances of victory. There is no better preparation than continuously winning. That is why Nitish Kumar Reddy was played in place of injured Washington Sundar.

Made fast bowling a joke:

Before the series against New Zealand, captain Shubman Gill said that he will rotate the fast bowling group. In this he paid the price for not feeding Arshdeep Singh. Will he play in place of Prasidh Krishna in future? Keeping the World Cup in mind, the team should have started playing with its best attack to get into the habit of winning.

Where is the wicket taker in the middle overs:

If the pitch is flat then there should be a mystery or defensive bowler in these overs. Chahal/Varun would do the same thing with Kuldeep and make things difficult for the batsmen in the middle. Jadeja used to be very useful here but now he has become outdated. Generally our bowling is very bad without Bumrah. Bring Axar, at least he can control runs and is a better batsman than Jadeja or bring Dubey, his bowling is fine.

Question from Virat and Rohit:

Even if they are scoring runs, questions remain because there is no policy as to how much confidence is there in them? Therefore, without considering his place in the team as confirmed, rotation was not done where it was needed. Rohit Sharma, Gill and Virat Kohli set in the top three and the result is Yashasvi Jaiswal on the bench. Who can feel this better than Gambhir himself? During the tri-series in Australia in 2012, when Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag were set openers, they rotated them and gave a chance to Gambhir.