The Indians were hammered by eight wickets in the first match after they failed to put up a competitive total.
New Zealand won the rain-marred summit match against India by eight wickets to bag the winning purse of Rs 12 crore along with an ICC Test Championship Mace.
Raj blamed both the batting as well as the bowling units for India’s below-par show in the first ODI against England on Sunday, which the visitors lost by eight wickets to go down 0-1 in the three-match series.
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The visitors’ batting was exposed again in seaming conditions with the Kusal Perera-led side only managing 111/7 in the allotted 20 overs.
Shoaib Malik (48, 28b, 3×4, 3×6) and Rovman Powell (23, 14b, 2×4, 1×6) put up a brief middle-order resistance and fightback in a 66-run fourth-wicket partnership
The 32-year-old said that the winner of the two-year long WTC schedule has to be decided through hard grind and not just by winning a one-off Test.
The right-handed batsman had earlier said he would have retired had New Zealand lifted the 50-over World Cup in 2019. They lost to England in the final.
A veteran of 161 Tests and 92 ODIs, Cook added that he sympathised with his successor, Joe Root, who did not get his choice of players in each of England’s last eight Tests, dating back to the Sri Lanka tour in January.
The cricketer-turned-commentator wants the International Cricket Council (ICC) to come up with a formula to determine the winner if the final ends in a draw.
The 30-year-old Stokes had to pull out of the Indian Premier League (IPL) before its suspension due to the injury.
The Proteas defeated the Kraigg Brarhwaite-led West Indies by 158 runs in the second Test on Monday to make a clean sweep of the series here.
West Indies were 153 for seven in second innings, still 176 runs adrift of South Africa, who won the first Test by an innings.
Karachi finished on 10 points alongside Lahore Qalandars, but its better net run-rate knocked out the 2020 finalist from the playoffs.
New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson won the toss and opted to field first in the much-awaited World Test Championship (WTC) final against India on Saturday.
Despite the effort of 17-year-old Shafali (68 balls, 11x4s), who had made 96 in first innings, India still trail England by 82 runs.
For Kohli, India’s most successful Test captain, a trophy-less cabinet doesn’t do justice to the champion performer that he has been for a decade.
Batter Shafali Verma, all-rounder Deepti Sharma, pace bowler Pooja Vastrakar and wicketkeeper Taniya Bhatia are playing their first Test.
On Friday, Sussex beat Gloucestershire by five wickets in a T20 Blast game that went on for 37.2 overs on the Bristol pitch where the women’s Test will be played.
The No. 4 batsman, who scored 80 in the first innings of the Test, said that playing two Test matches against England was the ideal preparation for the WTC final.
New Zealand on Tuesday confirmed their 15-man squad for the inaugural ICC WTC final at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton from June 18-22.
Allardice added that the issue of discrepancy between series due to difference in number of Tests has also been sorted with the percentage-of-points-won method.
The Virat Kohli-led Indian team defeated the visiting England 3-1 in a Test series in March and qualified for the final.
India play the World Test Championship (WTC) final against New Zealand from June 18 here at the Hampshire Bowl and a five-Test series against England in August-September.
The third day saw Hanuma Vihari and Shubman Gill opening the innings with the former, who had a terrible outing with Warwickshire county this season, shown glancing the ball.