Indian team led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni had left to the New Zealand tour which will be different series compared to other series. It will be first time for captain himself to play in Kiwi conditions. India was terribly beaten in both the tests and one day formats with 2-0 and 5-2 respectively in their previous visit in 2002-03. Only five players in present Squad that is touring
New Zealand Series had the weather experience (Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan). On other hand black caps skipper said that India will find easier this time, also added that pitches were eased out after their previous tour and become flatter. Vettori added that he was very excited for the series which gives his team a good chance to test his young team’s skills.
Jacques Kallis is now 8th test batsmen to get 10,000 runs. He achieved this feet in the first test between SA and AUS at Wanderers. He scored 27 runs before getting out to Siddle. This is 129th test match for kallis and started the innings needing just 12 runs. Kallis is only South African to reach this mile stone, raised his bat helmet after getting 10,000. Upto now he has made 30 hundreds and 50 fifties with healthy average of 54.57. This allrounder has 252 wickets and 100-plus catches in his kitty and is rated as one of the legends of the game.
One of the most experienced and widely respected umpires through out the world 'Steve Bucknor' from West Indies will going to retire from International duties after the 
Kandamby scored an unbeaten 93 to nearly snatch victory for Sri Lanka. He recovered shaky start from 36/3 to 136/3 along with his captain who is struggling for form made a patient 52. They kept moumentem going with the partnership of exactly 100, but India's premium fast bowler Ishanth Sharma kept his cool in last 10 overs of the innings taking 3 wickets and bowling tight line with Zaheer Khan. Sharma has awarded the player of the match for his match winning figures of 4/57.