Spinner ajaz patel

Spinner Ajaz Patel: Spinner Ajaz Patel feels that New Zealand's preparations back home and their adaptability to different conditions helped them register a historic 3-0 Test series sweep over India last week.

India were blanked at all three venues - Bengaluru, Pune and Mumbai - by visiting spinners led by Ajaz and Mitchell Santner with Glenn Phillips playing an assisting role.

"If I'm honest with you, we had a great winter back home where we prepared on turning wickets and we made sure we had different surfaces that we tried and practiced on so we were, I guess, conditioned to bowling on different surfaces as well. So yeah it's a lot to do with preparation but then it's also about backing your skills and kind of I guess you know going out there and doing it really," Ajaz was quoted by Cricbuzz.