New Delhi, Aug. 21 -- On the third morning at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, India were 46 all out. Not 46 for six. All out, in 31.2 overs, the lowest total India have ever made in a home Test, and the number that opens any honest india national cricket team vs new zealand national cricket team timeline. New Zealand had not won a Test in India in 36 years. Twelve days later they had won three.

What followed over the next seventeen months is the strangest stretch these two sides have played, because the answer to who is better depends entirely on which format you ask about. New Zealand own the Test record outright. India have won every knockout match that mattered. The white-ball ledger in between is genuinely, uncomfortably spl...