New Zealand will take on Australia in a two-Test match series which starts on December 1 this year.
Australia V New Zealand Test Live and Preview: Kiwis Aim For 1st Win Since 1992
Australia will look for a series win against New Zealand in the two-Test series at home.
You can watch the Australia-New Zealand Test matches on Channel Nine in Australia and if you are in India, you can watch the Australia-New Zealand Tests live on Star Cricket.
New Zealand have a pretty poor record against Australia in recent times. Forget winning a series, New Zealand have not won a single Test against the Aussies in the last 21 Test matches. The last time they won a Test match against Australia was way back in 1992 – a whopping 19 years since winning a game!
To top that record, the last time New Zealand won a Test in Australia was in 1985, which gives one a sense of how arduous the task will be for the Kiwis.
The good news is that Australia is not as strong as they were in the past – they have lost a few of their better players to retirement to go with the fact that they may have four of their current squad-members struggling with fitness issues. The likes of Mitchell Johnson, Shaun Marsh, Shane Watson and Ryan Harris could all miss out.
This might mean that the side will be a far-changed one – especially with the form issues surrounding some of the players as well. Ricky Ponting seems to be surviving in the team by the skin of his teeth while Michael Hussey, despite his successive man of the series before the South African series, came cropper against a high-quality pace attack.
New Zealand has a new-look side as well, with Ross Taylor captaining them for the first time against a tough opposition. He will have a fairly young team, but it will be the usual suspects, who will need to come good – Taylor himself, Brendon McCullum, Daniel Vettori and the likes.
Australia should win the series but how they go about doing it will hold a clue in the forthcoming series against India.
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