New Zealand Won, India Lost, It Happens, It's Allowed. There's Nothing To Fix Here. This Is The Beauty Of Sport

India did not lose the final of the World Test Championship. New Zealand won it. This a subtle yet important distinction to make, especially in a country where cricket is not a matter of life or death, but rather something even more important.

- Anand Vasu

The fact remains that India have failed to win any global events in the recent years. Equally, New Zealand have reached the final four of the last four World Cups, and featured in two finals, one of which they did not actually lose, but were adjudged second-best in England two years ago on the basis of a quirky rule.

And there are other facts that have been bandied about that deserve closer examination. It is true that India boasts a population of 1.4 billion to New Zealand’s 5 million. But, as with typewriters and monkeys not producing the next Shakespeare, numbers alone do not guarantee excellence.

While comparing populations, it bears mentioning that a child in New Zealand is far more likely to be encouraged to adopt an outdoor way of life and a sporting one, revelling in the clean air and open fields in the Land of the Long White Cloud. In India a child of a similar age is more likely to be pressed into action in online tuition classes, so much so that even the cricket team is sponsored by one such entity.