IND vs NZ LIVE: The series between India and New Zealand is tied at 1-1, with both sides giving amazing performances in each of the first two games. The visitors humiliated the hosts by 21 runs in game one, but the Men in Blue rallied and took game two by six wickets to even the series. The series-deciding third T20I will now be played on Wednesday in Ahmedabad. Before the final T20I of the series, check OUT 15 MAJOR stats for India vs NewZealand T20 matches. Follow India vs New Zealand T20 Series LIVE
IND vs NZ LIVE: Before the series decider 3RD T20 in Ahmedabad, Check OUT 15 MAJOR stats for India vs NewZealand T20 matches
Hello Ahmedabad 👋
We are here for the third & final T20I of the #INDvNZ series 👏 👏#TeamIndia pic.twitter.com/gQ1jPEnPvK
— BCCI (@BCCI) January 30, 2023
These two teams have played one other in some pretty thrilling T20I matches over the years. Before the pivotal series finale, HERE are some highly intriguing facts and figures behind India vs. New Zealand in the game’s shortest format:
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# The highest innings total against India in T20Is is New Zealand’s 219 for six at Wellington on February 6, 2019.
# India has a success rate of 52.08 compared to New Zealand’s 47.91. India and New Zealand have each won 13 T20Is out of the 24 that have been played. The Napier T20I, played on November 22, 2022, was decided by the DLS method, ending in a tie.
# After the match ended in a stalemate, India won the one-over eliminators in back-to-back matches, one each in Hamilton on January 29, 2020, and Wellington on January 31, 2020.
# New Zealand’s exciting one-run triumph over India in Chennai on September 11, 2012, still stands as their T20I series’ closest margin of victory. On February 6, 2019, they won by an 80-run margin at Wellington, which still stands as their biggest victory over India in terms of runs.
# The highest innings total against New Zealand in T20Is is India’s 208 for six at Hamilton on February 10, 2019.
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# New Zealand (99/8) recorded their lowest total against India in the second T20I at Lucknow on January 29, 2023, surpassing the 111 at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, on November 21, 2011.
# Suryakumar Yadav’s strike rate against New Zealand in T20Is was 151.16 while he amassed 260 runs, including a hundred and fifty, in seven innings (min 150 runs).
# The only Indian batsman to score a century against New Zealand in T20Is is Suryakumar.
# Suryakumar scored an undefeated 111 off 51 balls at Mount Maunganui on November 20, 2022, with a strike rate of 217.64.
# In T20Is between India and New Zealand, Rohit Sharma’s total of 511 runs at an average of 34.06, including six fifty-plus scores, in 17 innings is the highest on either side.
# Tim Southee leads all players in wickets in Twenty20 Internationals with 134 wickets at an average of 23.72 runs in 107 games.
# In T20I encounters between the two countries, Ish Sodhi leads both teams in wickets taken with 24 wickets at 20.25 runs each in 19 matches.
# Tim Southee is the next-best bowler with 20 wickets at 28.15 in 17 games.
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# From 2007 to 2016, India’s first five T20I matches with New Zealand ended in losses.
# India lost five times in a row, each time by a different margin: by 10 runs at Johannesburg on September 16, 2007, by 7 wickets at Christchurch on February 25, by 5 wickets at Wellington on February 27, by 1 run at Chennai on September 11, 2012, and by 47 runs at Nagpur on March 15, 2016.
# India had won five Twenty20 Internationals against New Zealand, all in 2020, before an 8-wicket loss in Dubai on October 31, 2021. Men in Blue triumphed by six wickets in Auckland on January 24, seven wickets in Auckland on January 26, one-over victories in Hamilton and Wellington on January 29, and by seven runs in Mount Maunganui on February 2, 2020.
# In all three T20 World Cup matches versus India, New Zealand has prevailed. The margins of victory were 10 runs in Johannesburg on September 16, 2007, 47 runs in Nagpur on March 15, 2016, and 8 wickets in Dubai on October 31, 2021.
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# India’s 5-0 win over New Zealand in the bilateral series in 2019–20 in New Zealand marked the nation’s first rout of a rival by such a large margin.
# Lokesh Rahul received his lone Player of the Series award in New Zealand for the 2019–20 season.
# The highest total on either side in 2019–20 belongs to Rahul, who scored 224 runs (avg. 56.00), including two fifty-sevens, in just five innings while maintaining a 144.51 strike rate.
# Shardul Thakur still holds the record for both sides in a bilateral series with 8 wickets at 19.62 runs per wicket in five games in 2019–20.
# The only century by a Sri Lankan batsman in Twenty20 Internationals is Colin Munro’s 109 not out off 58 balls in Rajkot on November 4, 2017.
# On November 1, 2017, Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma both scored exactly 80 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi.
# India’s greatest partnership for any wicket versus NZ in T20Is occurred on November 1, 2017, when Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma put on a stand of 158 (first wicket) in Delhi.
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# 98 balls faced by Dhawan and Rohit in the aforesaid partnership is India’s longest by any pair for any wicket against any opponent in Twenty20 Internationals.
# Dhawan/Rohit’s 158-run stand was the first century stand for India vs NZ in T20Is.
# Mitchell Santer’s career-best figures in T20 are the best by a NZ bowler in T20Is/T20 World Cup against India – 4 for 11 at Nagpur on 15-3-2016.
# Daniel Vettori’s career-best figures of 4 for 20 in T20Is were also achieved against India in the T20WC
# Axar Patel’s excellent figures of 3 for 9 at Eden Gardens, Kolkata on November 21, 2021 were produced by him against New Zealand.
# The aforementioned partnership between Dhawan and Rohit, which lasted 98 balls, is the longest partnership in Twenty20 Internationals between any Indian pair for any wicket against any opponent.
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# The 158-run partnership between Dhawan and Rohit was India’s first against New Zealand in T20Is.
# Mitchell Santer’s 4 for 11 against India in Nagpur on March 15, 2016, is the best bowling performance by a New Zealander in a T20 International or T20 World Cup match.
# Daniel Vettori also defeated India in the T20WC with his career-best T20I statistics of 4 for 20.
# On November 21, 2021, at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, Axar Patel defeated New Zealand with fantastic stats of 3 for 9.
# India has won six and lost two of the eight T20Is it has played against New Zealand under Virat Kohli’s captaincy (winning percentage: 62.50), while Rohit Sharma’s captaincy has won five out of seven (winning percentage: 71.42).
# Ish Sodhi is the only New Zealand bowler to record three four-wicket hauls in T20Is. He did it against Australia in Christchurch on February 22, 2021, Bangladesh in Hamilton on March 28, 2021, and Scotland in Edinburgh on July 27, 2022. (all three figures are the same)
# India and New Zealand have faced off in ten T20Is in India. Men in Blue has six victories and four defeats.
# India defeated New Zealand by five wickets on November 17, 2021 in Jaipur, becoming the first side to complete 50 successful T20I chases.
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