IND vs NZ 1st Test, Approaching Milestones and Records: India and New Zealand will be squaring off in the first of the three-match test series. The first game will take place at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru. This is scheduled to be played between October 16 and 20. India won the last test series played between the two in 2022.
India will enter this game with a historic home record with them in test cricket. They recently dominated Bangladesh and won by 2-0. On the other hand, New Zealand aren't in form as they lost the test series in Sri Lanka 0-2. They will be without Kane Williamson in the first match, so it will be another challenge for visitors in the first test.
There are some big records and milestones that are awaiting in the first game. Below, we will talk about big records and milestones which are lined up and can be achieved in the second IND Vs NZ Test in Bengaluru.
India vs New Zealand 1st Test: Approaching Test Records and Test Cricket Milestones Ahead of the Test at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
53 – Virat Kohli will be eyeing a big record. He has scored 8947 runs in 115 tests and needs another 53 runs to complete 9000 runs and become only the fourth Indian after Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, and Sunil Gavaskar to do this.
4 – Veteran Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has 527 test wickets. He needs only four wickets to surpass Australia's Nathan Lyon (530) and become the 7th highest wicket-taker in test cricket.
2 – Tim Southee has 382 test wickets and needs only two more wickets to surpass England's legendary cricketer Ian Botham (383) in tests.
6 – Kuldeep Yadav has 294 wickets for India. He needs six more wickets to complete 300 international wickets.
66 – Mitchell Santner needs 66 more runs to complete 3000 international runs for New Zealand.
31- KL Rahul needs 31 more runs to complete 3000 test runs in his career.
5 – Rohit Sharma has 87 sixes, and he needs five more sixes to surpass Virender Sehwag (91) and become India's leading six-hitter in Test cricket.
60 – Yashasvi Jaiswal needs 60 more runs to complete 2000 international runs for India.
1 – Virat Kohli has 29 centuries in test cricket, and he needs one more century to surpass Don Bradman's tally of 29 test hundreds.