2021 - Looking Ahead: Big test awaits Virat Kohli and Co now
Updated On: 01 January, 2021 11:51 AM IST | Mumbai | R Kaushik
Team India face stern challenge of qualifying for the World Test Championship at Lord`s after defeats in NZ and Adelaide
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India players celebrate the wicket of Bangladesh`s Mominul Haque during the first Test at Indore in 2019. PIC/AFP
The year gone by for the Indian Test team mirrored the despair and anguish heaped on the world by the sweeping Coronavirus pandemic. Debilitating defeats in New Zealand at the start of 2020 and in Australia at the end, before light at the end of the tunnel in Melbourne, sandwiched the loss of the No. 1 Test ranking and the top position in the World Test Championship, sparking doubts regarding their prospects of qualifying for the grand final in Lord`s towards the middle of this year.
Equally stern examinations await India over the next 12 months, their Test assignments interrupted by the Twenty20 World Cup they will host in October-November. Not long after they return from Australia in late January, Virat Kohli`s men run into formidable England in Chennai and Ahmedabad in a four-Test series, then travel to Old Blighty in the summer for a return four-Test series.
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