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The BCCI claimed it would have to cancel the rest of the ongoing home series against New Zealand because its bank accounts had been frozen by the Lodha Committee. The Lodha Committee said it had not frozen the board's accounts

New Zealand's stand-in captain Ross Taylor felt conceding a 100 plus lead hurt his team's chances of trying to level the series in Kolkata

Virat Kohli said winning the Kolkata Test taught his team important lessons. "This was a Test match that players took as an opportunity to build character rather than pressure."

India opener Shikhar Dhawan has been ruled out of the third Test against New Zealand in Indore starting October 8 due to a fractured finger that could take at least 15 days to heal

India have displaced Pakistan as the No. 1-ranked Test team in the world, following their 178-run win against New Zealand in the second Test in Kolkata

All of India's bowlers combined together perfectly at Eden Gardens to deliver the hosts a 178-run victory over New Zealand

Sunday was the third time New Zealand were denied parity by India's lower order, but Trent Boult has said that the visitors are not doing much wrong

Rohit Sharma has laughed off the notion that he might have been under pressure coming into this Test after scoring 82 from the challenging 43 for 4 in India's second innings

First-rate innings from Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma helped India ratchet their lead up to 339 on an Eden Gardens pitch that had begun to misbehave more frequently

Bhuvneshwar Kumar picked up 5 for 33 to leave New Zealand at 128 for 7, trailing India by 188 runs at Eden Gardens

New Zealand were pleasantly surprised to find some help for their quicks in the pitch at Eden Gardens, fast bowler Matt Henry has said

New Zealand reduced India to 239 for 7 on the first day of the Kolkata Test, making use of a pitch that had a little bit of grass on it

India captain Virat Kohli, while expecting the Eden Gardens pitch to be batting friendly, has said he wanted to the batsmen to score big runs and apply scoreboard pressure on New Zealand

New Zealand captain Kane Williamson was down with a bug and did not train with his team on the eve of the second Test against India in Kolkata

Jayant Yadav was added to the India squad as a replacement for the ill Ishant Sharma, but he will be on stand-by for R Ashwin, who has a corn on the middle finger of his right hand

India's coach Anil Kumble has once again thrown his weight behind Cheteshwar Pujara, who had been spoken to by the team management about his strike rate

New Zealand allrounder Jimmy Neesham has been ruled out of the second Test "at least" because of his rib injury that had kept him out of the Kanpur Test too

Opening batsman Gautam Gambhir has returned to India's Test setup two years after playing his previous international, in place of the injured KL Rahul, for the remaining home Tests against New Zealand

Amid the disappointment of having lost a Test, New Zealand captain Kane Williamson felt the team had the skill to compete but has asked his team-mates to apply them for much longer durations

India's Test captain Virat Kohli hailed R Ashwin's impact and Ravindra Jadeja's relentlessness after India's 197-run win over New Zealand in the series and season opener in Kanpur