6 Months, 13 Encounters and 4 Opponents

     It started with New Zealand followed by England and Bangladesh and ended with Australia. India dominated in all departments and overplayed all the opponents.

      

     Bangladesh earned more experience, Aussies put on a good fight but the other two surrendered completely when it came to Indian subcontinent.

     India played three test match series with New Zealand and swept them cleanly, thanks to good shows by skipper Virat and spin duo of Ashwin and Jadeja who were the top performers. Then it came to  much awaited encounter with England. India beat England 4-0 in a five match test series, again skipper played some good knocks and bowlers doing the rest. Hosts beat their next guest Bangladesh with no difficulty. And then visited Kangaroos who surprised the hosts by winning the opening encounter but India recovered well and ended the series with figures of 2-1. The surprising thing was that skipper Virat Kohli completely failed with the scores of 0, 13, 12, 15 and 06 in three tests he played.

     Now everyone will be playing in IPL for next couple of months and India's next test encounter will be at the end of 2017 when they will be visiting Proteas. India proved they are top ranked side and have world-class players but apart from the regular performers the positives for India are the emergence of wicket-keeper batsman Wriddhiman Saha, opener KL Rahul, middle-order batsman Karun Nair, spinners Jayant Yadav and Kuldeep Yadav. India tested many players and almost every one of them proved their worth.