After recording a dominant win over India in the first Test match in Bengaluru on Sunday, the New Zealand cricket team eyes more glory as their women's cricket team takes on South Africa in the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2024 final in Dubai on the same day.
New Zealand men's team is yet to taste a World Cup success while the women's team remain without a T20 World Cup trophy. New Zealand men's team suffered heartbreaking losses in the ICC ODI World Cup 2019 final and T20 World Cup final in 2021 while the women's cricket team lost two finals in the opening two editions of the T20 World Cup.
Ahead of the final against South Africa on Sunday, Latham wished Sophie Devine-led White Ferns the best of luck and encouraged them to end the nation's drought for the first-ever T20 World Cup silverware.
It was a historic day for the Kiwis on Sunday as they defeated India in a Test match for the first time since November 1988. Tom Latham, who was captaining the team for the first time as a full-time skipper, also handed India their only fifth Test defeat at home since 2013.
In the Bengaluru Test, New Zealand bowlers ran riot in the first innings as they bowled out the hosts to just 46 total on Day 2. It was the lowest-ever Test total for India at home and the lowest by any team in Asia.
Then the rising youngster Rachin Ravindra scored his second Test hundred and Devon Conway and Tim Southee registered big fifties to give the Kiwis a dominant first innings lead of 356 runs. But India made a stunning comeback in their second innings with a huge total of 462 and set a 107-run target, which the travelling side chased with eight wickets remaining on Day 5.
