India have made every effort possible to restore to this series the one major ingredient it had lacked up to this point: home advantage
| PLAYER | ROLE |
|---|---|
| Rohit Sharma | Top-order batter |
| Jasprit Bumrah | Bowler |
| Akash Deep | Bowler |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | Bowling allrounder |
| Ravindra Jadeja | Allrounder |
| Yashasvi Jaiswal | Opening batter |
| Dhruv Jurel † | Wicketkeeper batter |
| Sarfaraz Khan | Middle-order batter |
| Virat Kohli | Top-order batter |
| Kuldeep Yadav | Bowler |
| Mohammed Siraj | Bowler |
| Rishabh Pant † | Wicketkeeper batter |
| Axar Patel | Allrounder |
| KL Rahul † | Wicketkeeper batter |
| Shubman Gill | Opening batter |
| Washington Sundar | Bowling allrounder |
| LAST FIVE MATCHES | DATE | SERIES/TOURNAMENT | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INDIND |  | 46 & 462 | lost to | 402 & 110/2 |  | NZNZ | 16/10/24 | New Zealand tour of India 2024/25 |
| INDIND | | 325 & 276/7d | beat | 62 & 167 | | NZNZ | 03/12/21 | New Zealand tour of India 2021/22 |
| INDIND | | 345 & 234/7d | drew with | 296 & 165/9 | | NZNZ | 25/11/21 | New Zealand tour of India 2021/22 |
| INDIND | | 217 & 170 | lost to | 249 & 140/2 | | NZNZ | 18/06/21 | ICC World Test Championship |
| INDIND | | 242 & 124 | lost to | 235 & 132/3 | | NZNZ | 28/02/20 | India tour of New Zealand 2019/20 |
Tom Latham and Rachin Ravindra trust in their team's ability to adapt but don't want to go into the game with "too many preconceived ideas"
India coach says the team management backs Rahul and is unconcerned by the growing scrutiny of his form
India have made every effort possible to restore to this series the one major ingredient it had lacked up to this point: home advantage
"I'm sure we'll come up with a plan and find a way to take 20 wickets and hopefully score a few runs as well"
Behind the wicket is this unorthodox India batter's happy place
