‘Dictators,’ Tomas Masaryk famously said, ‘always look good until the last five minutes.’ So it was with India, a dozen-year dictator on home soil, suddenly under challenge from New Zealanders absent their best batter and bowler, and without a Test win in India since November 1988.
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