New Zealand has become the world's first Test champion. New Zealand Cricket Team has won the title of ICC World Test Championship 2021. In the finals, it has defeated the Indian team by eight wickets. New Zealand achieved the target of 139 runs for the win due to the brilliant innings of captain Kane Williamson (52) and Ross Taylor (47) for the loss of two wickets. Due to the poor batting of the opening batsman, India had to lose this test match.
"I am not in absolute agreement of deciding the best Test side in the world over the course of one game. If it is a Test series, it has to be a test of character over three Tests - which team has the ability to come back in the series, or totally blow away the other team. It can't just be pressure applied over two days of good cricket and then you suddenly you are not a good Test side anymore. I don't believe in it," Kohli said after India's eight-wicket loss in Southampton to New Zealand.
"It has to be a hard grind and something that definitely needs to be worked around in the future. "At the end of three matches, where there's effort, there's ups and downs, there's situations changing during the course of the series, a chance to rectify the things you have done in the first game, and then really see who is the better side over the course of a three-match series or something, will be a good measure of how things really are," Kohli added.
"So we are not too bothered by this result because we understand as a Test side what we have done over the last 3-4 years, not just over the last 18 months. So this is not a measure of who we are as a team [with] the ability and the potential we have had for so many years now."
India has not won any major ICC event after 2013. Due to the excellent captaincy from New Zealand, this match was won. Earlier, New Zealand has won the ICC tournament again after almost 21 years. He won the ICC Champions Trophy in the year 2000. Even then he defeated India in the final. Apart from this, today was a mixed reaction for India. In the year 2013 itself, India won the Champions Trophy on this day and now on this day the chance of winning the Test Championship kept getting lost.