The year 2024 was a year of ups and downs for the Indian cricket team. While India created history by winning the T20 World Cup title, it also had to suffer deep wounds in its own home. This year, while India made some records, the team also had to face defeat against some teams. Foreign teams like New Zealand defeated India at home, which left a deep pain in the hearts of Indian cricket fans.
suffered a crushing defeat at home
The excellent performance and title win in the T20 World Cup on West Indies soil was definitely a big positive moment of the year. But the manner in which India suffered defeat at home also raised many questions. This year, a foreign team came to India and gave a clean sweep to the Rohit brigade, the impact of which will be visible on the Indian team for a long time. This defeat also taught Team India that underestimating any team can be a loss for itself. No matter where she is playing.
Kiwis defeated India
India lost in the 2024 three-match Test series between India and New Zealand. India defeated Bangladesh in the Test series in early 2024. Looking at the previous performance, Indian fans were hopeful that India would achieve similar great success against New Zealand. However, the New Zealand team, which came to India after losing the Test series against Bangladesh, healed its wounds by defeating India.
It was the excellent performance of the New Zealand team that led them to a historic victory against India without Kane Williamson. After clean sweeping India 3-0, the Kiwi team made the record of clean sweep in a Test series in India for the first time. This series proved to be a big disappointment for Indian cricket. Because Team India had never suffered such a big defeat against any team at home before.
Sri Lanka also defeated
However, this was not Team India’s first time this year. In fact, before this, India also had to face defeat in the ODI series against Sri Lanka. In the year 2024, a big disappointment came for the Indian ODI team when Sri Lanka defeated India 2-0 on their soil. This series was played at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. The Indian batsmen were seen struggling against Sri Lanka’s young spinners Dunith Velavage and Jeffrey Vandersay.
The Indian team faced failure in chasing easy targets in the second and third ODI matches against Sri Lanka. Although Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma had good individual performances, the failure of other batsmen led India to defeat. After a tie in the first match, India suffered a humiliating defeat by 32 runs in the second match and by 110 runs in the third.
