New Zealand tour on India 2012: New Zealand team tours India before the start of ICC World Twenty20 which is starting next month. New Zealand will play two test and Two Twenty20 games in India. According to the news from BCCI source, since it’s a short tour there will not be any practice match for team New Zealand.

In this tour three Indian Batsmen gets Re-entry Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Pujara. These three players were not in the India side for more than 12 months and they are giving chance to prove their ability.

Harbhajan in a statement to press says “I have to start afresh”, similarly Yuvraj Singh says “It’s like selected for the first time”.

India vs New Zealand 2012 Fixtures

Date	Time	Match	Venue	Result
Thu Aug 23 – Mon Aug 27	09:30 IST	1st Test – Ind v NZ	Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad
Fri Aug 31 – Tue Sep 4	09:30 IST	2nd Test – India v New Zealand	M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Sat Sep 8	20:00 IST	1st T20 – India v New Zealand	Indira Priyadarshini Stadium, Visakhapatnam
Tue Sep 11	20:00 IST	2nd T20 – India v New Zealand	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Team News

India test Squad
MS Dhoni (c/wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Piyush Chawla, Gautam Gambhir, Zaheer Khan, Virat Kohli, VVS Laxman, Pragyan Ojha, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, Virender Sehwag, Ishant Sharma, Sachin Tendulkar, Umesh Yadav

India Twenty20 Squad
MS Dhoni (c/wk), Gautam Gambhir (vc), Ravichandran Ashwin, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Piyush Chawla, Ashok Dinda,Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Virat Kohli, Irfan Pathan, Suresh Raina, Virender Sehwag, Rohit Sharma, Manoj Tiwary, Yuvraj Singh

New Zealand Squad
Ross Taylor (c), Trent Boult, Doug Bracewell, Daniel Flynn, James Franklin, Martin Guptill, rendon McCullum, Chris Martin, Tarun Nethula, Jeetan Patel, Tim Southee, Kruger van Wyk (wk), Neil Wagner, BJ Watling, Kane Williamson