India Vs New Zealand 2012 My Expectations !!!!

After a Short Break the Indian Cricket team is back  and will  be facing the New Zealanders for a series at home which will have two test matches and two 20/20 games.What makes the game more exciting is that we are going to see Indian Cricket team in a test match series after a long time which i think is great because too much of 20/20,50 overs LOI gets boring at times test matches have a royal touch in them and are a lot of fun if you follow it.

Indian Squad for the Test Series:

MS Dhoni(C&WK),Ravichandran Ashwin,Subramaniam Badrinath,Piyush Chawla,Gautam Gambhir,Zaheer Khan,Virat Kohli,Pragyan Ojha,Cheteshwar Pujara,Ajinkya Rahane,Suresh Raina,Virender Sehwag,Ishant Sharma,Sachin Tendulkar,Umesh Yadav    

Newzealand Squad For Test Series:

Ross Taylor(C),Trent Boult,Doug Bracewell,Daniel Flynn,James Franklin,Martin

Guptill,Brendon McCullum,Chris Martin,Tarun Nethula,Jeetan Patel,Tim Southee,Kruger van Wyk(WK),Neil Wagner,BJ Watling,Kane Williamson
 

Indian Squad for the 2 Match T20 Series:
 

MS Dhoni(C&WK),Ravichandran Ashwin,Piyush Chawla,Gautam Gambhir,Zaheer Khan,Virat Kohli,Suresh Raina,Virender Sehwag,Yuvraj Singh,Rohit Sharma,Harbhajan Singh,Irfan Pathan,Ashok Dinda,Laxmipathi Balaji,Manoj Tiwary

New Zealand Squad For the 2 Match T20 Series:

Ross Taylor(C),Doug Bracewell,James Franklin,Martin

Guptill,Ronnie Hira,Brendon McCullum(WK),Nathan Mccullum,Kyle Mills,Adam Milne,Rob Nicol,Jacob Oram,Tim Southee,Daniel Vettori,BJ Watling,Kane Williamson

Start time and Venue:

 The first test match is set to start tomorrow(23/08/2012) and will be played at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad with a start time of 09:30 AM(IST) which will be followed by the second test match at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore and then the two 20/20  internationals which will be held on 08/09/2012 at Indira Priyadarshini Stadium, Visakhapatnam,with a start time of 20:00 and the second 20/20 will be held at 20:00(IST) at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai.So book your tickets quickly because they might get filled up soon :).

My Expectations:

Iam expecting this series to be an excellent one mainly because India is coming back to play test series after a long time and we might just get to see Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh play after quiet a few months which will also be quite entertaining as they will be raring to go .Virat Kholi has been in great form would love to see him make a double or a triple century the way he is going it might not be very tough for him to do..Zaheer Khan would be great with the ball too im sure just one disappointment that Irfan Pathan is not there in the test squad would have loved to see him play.All im expecting from this game is an excellent/thrilling contest India has not had a good record in test in the recent past so would love to see how they make the necessary adjustments and come out on top :)