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Indian team leaves for New Zealand to play 2 Tests, 5 ODIs

Mumbai: The Indian squad led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni departed for New Zealand from Mumbai on Sunday for a five-match ODI series followed by a best-of-two Test rubber against the hosts.The limited overs contest will

PTI Updated on: January 12, 2014 12:48 IST
indian team leaves for new zealand to play 2 tests 5 odis
indian team leaves for new zealand to play 2 tests 5 odis

Mumbai: The Indian squad led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni departed for New Zealand from Mumbai on Sunday for a five-match ODI series followed by a best-of-two Test rubber against the hosts.




The limited overs contest will start on January 19 at Napier and conclude on January 31 at Wellington
with the other three games to be held at Hamilton (January 22), Auckland (January 25) and Hamilton (January 28) again.

The Test series will be held after that with the opener scheduled from February 6-10 (Auckland) followed by the second and final match at Wellington (February 14-18).

The tourists would play a two-day warm-up game on February 2 and 3 at Whangarei ahead of the Tests.

Test specialists Cheteshwar Pujara, Zaheer Khan, Murali Vijay and Umesh Yadav did not leave with the others yet and are slated to leave a week later.

This is India's ninth visit to New Zealand for a bilateral contest and their first since 2008-09 that they won 1-0.
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