Tom Latham, New Zealand's new Test captain who wants his side to play without fear during the three-match series they will play against India. This is one of the reasons behind Tom Latham's resolution to end a run of four successive losses, which have almost ended their chances of making it to the World Test Championship final. Latham will take on full-time captaincy after Tim Southee stepped down following the Sri Lanka series last month. It is from Bengaluru, Pune, and Mumbai over the next three weeks that he will start his captaincy after which, New Zealand will host England for another three-Test series. New Zealand have only won two Tests in India - winning in 1969 in Nagpur and in 1988 in Mumbai. They lost the first Test of their recent tour of Sri Lanka by 63 runs and were handed a thrashing defeat in the second Test by an innings and 154 runs, failing to reach 100 in their first innings when they were bowled out for 88. Latham said: "From my point of view it's about trying to continue doing the good stuff we've been doing, trying to put my spin on things. It's an exciting challenging going over to India and once we can go over there hopefully [we can] play with a bit of freedom, bit of no fear and try and take it to them. If we do that hopefully gives ourselves a good chance. "Think in India we've seen teams that have done well out there in the past have been quite aggressive towards them, especially with the bat they've looked to play a few shots, but also put them under pressure which is really important over there rather than sitting and waiting for something to happen. We'll decide on how we want to play when we get over there, but guys have got plans around how they like to approach things and hopefully we can fine tune those." He added: "We actually did some really good things in Sri Lanka. We fell on the wrong sides of the results but there were some good things. The approach we had with the bat, apart from that one innings I thought we played really well. So it's about continuing that as much as we can and trying to play a brand that we are proud of playing and if we do that hopefully it gives us a good chance." Also Read | Jack Leach’s 4 Wickets Lead England to Historic Win Over Pakistan in the 1st Test Latham has played nine Test matches before where he has been a stand-in captain of the Test side in absence of Kane Williamson from 2020 to 2022, but now he gets the chance to make a mark on full-time. The biggest call of one of his significant decisions will be is whether the former captain Tim Southee retains his spot in the team as Southee has not been among wickets lately. Latham said: "Will certainly be leaning on those experiences. Obviously a different situation being full-time where you can put your own spin on things but think what I want to do is encourage guys to be themselves, be leaders amongst themselves as well and hopefully if we can do that we can play the brand of cricket we want to play." Latham will also need other bowlers like Will O'Rourke who did very well against Sri Lanka, and Matt Henry and Ben Sears. But surely Southee would be needed experience and guile by Latham. Latham added: "If you look back, think in Bangalore [Southee] took seven wickets last time we toured there. Someone with that amount of experience who's done it for many years there's certainly no reason why he can't get back to where he's been in the past. He's been a fantastic bowler for us for many years, there's a reason why he's so high on the wicket list for New Zealand. "He'll have a similar role that he has always had whether it's as captain or in the past, someone like that who has a wealth of experience, a wealth of knowledge in all conditions and he's done it for many years and has been successful. We'll certainly be tapping into his mind, his ideas, so looking forward to it."