New Zealand still plagued by inconsistencies

WELLINGTON: India's first Test series victory in New Zealand in 41 years on Tuesday highlighted the hosts' battle with inconsistencies that have haunted their test performances in recent years.

India claimed the three-Test series 1-0 after they won the first match in Hamilton by 10 wickets before they batted for more than two days to save the second in Napier.

The third test at Wellington's Basin Reserve ended in a moral victory for the tourists when they reduced New Zealand to 281 for eight chasing an improbable 617 for victory before rain on the final day intervened and forced it to end in a draw.