India’s 3-0 series loss to New Zealand at home has opened up the long-prevailing cracks in the team, especially in the batting. More often than not, it was the lower order comprising Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel who bailed India out of trouble. It didn’t click in the series against the Kiwis and for the first time since 2012, India lost aTest series at home. This loss also broke their winning streak of 18 series at home while for the first time in history, India were whitewashed in a series of three or more matches.