Top 5 surprise performances from the India-New Zealand Test series

#4 Rohit Sharma’s sequence of half-centuries

Rohit finally began to repay the faith shown by the team management

Coming into the series under discernible pressure regarding his utility to India‘s Test set-up, Rohit registered at least one fifty-plus score in all three matches of the series. The elegant right-hander ensured that the declarations came at the right time by hastening the scoring-rate when his side required the surge.

However, his 82 in the second innings at Eden Gardens proved to be a game-changing knock as he resurrected the Indian innings which had slumped to 106/6 at one stage. Alongside the pugnacious Wriddhiman Saha, Rohit thwarted a purposeful New Zealand bowling unit by clinging on to the loose deliveries without any fuss to take the match out of their reach.