Cash reward for team after Test series win

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced to reward the victorious Indian cricket team who on Tuesday broke the 41-year jinx by winning a Test series in New Zealand.

BCCI would award Rs 15 lakh to each team member for winning both the one-day and Test series in New Zealand, and the support staff would too get Rs 10 lakh each, announced the board president Shashank Manohar.

India sealed the Test series 1-0 and just missed a chance to make it 2-0 as rain came into play in the final day of the final Test in Wellington. India set out its Test match victory by winning the first Test in Hamilton by 10 wickets and then drew the second Test in Napier.

Way back in 1968, India had won its only Test series win in New Zealand under the captaincy of Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, who led the team to a 3-1 victory.

Earlier the Team India had posted a comfortable one-day series win over the Kiwis by 3-1.