Only a few days ago, Australia and England had to play in front of a record-low crowd at the MCG. It may not be the same in Auckland on Friday with the crowd-drawing India being one of the participants, but there is an overdose that's hard to look past. Despite the looming threat of rain and the break-free cricket calendar, the two teams will still turn up at the Eden Park in Auckland on Friday, hoping to put on a show.
INDIA TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND, 2022
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Shikhar Dhawan is set to lead a near second-string Indian side in the one-dayers in the absence of several senior players © BCCI
In just two weeks since the end of the 2022 World Cup, India and New Zealand will be playing their fourth international contest, in a second format, having jetted across to a fourth city. Fret not, if you feeling cricket-jaded, you're not on a lonely ride. India are playing a near second-string side, New Zealand are without Martin Guptill, Trent Boult and Ish Sodhi.
And yet, in all that, there can a delight, most likely from the in-form Suryakumar Yadav's bat. Glenn Maxwell has gone to the extent of saying, "He is batting on a completely different planet ... Embarrassing thing is that he is so much better than everyone else. It's almost hard to watch. No one we have got is close to that."
Irrespective of the timing of the series, and the irrelevance of it for
